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« on: January 09, 2015, 06:48:04 AM »
L Edmonds VO. Quentin (in Petofi's "ungainly" body as it is referred to twice... how'd Thayer like that?) does the very worst job of explaining himself to Edward that is humanly possible. Don't try this at home.
This episode is notable for one thing: a genuinely, intensely SCARY sequence pulled off by actress Karen Lynn, playing Wanda Paisley, disposable doxie. She is forced to enter the I Ching. We've seen the green skeleton before, we don't expect anything scary really. Then the screaming starts. And it just goes on and on, and builds. She turns around, almost to face us, skeleton still growing I think... and it intensfies even more, the screaming, making us think we're not seeing the whole picture here. SOMETHING much bigger and much worse than simply seeing a green skeleton is going on, some process, some "thing" that we can't see, but which is the WORST thing ever to happen to anyone, EVER. We can't see it happening to her abstract, astral self, so it must be happening to... her physical self in the real world...
Cut to her dead body, now itself a green skeleton. I have almost no specific childhood viewing memories of DS, but I remember the jolt from this moment when seeing it in 2002 after getting my DS on VHS. That is very definitely THE scariest scream I've ever heard in my life, or am ever likely to hear. I can't help thinking that we were there with her astral self screaming at the same time that the life was being ripped out of her, as she was or very nearly was already a skeleton, still screaming in spirit...
A retroactive Daytime Emmy is called for. Don't try THIS at home, either... You were lucky DL, with your 80s Chinging sessions...