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« on: July 26, 2014, 04:06:32 PM »
Voiceover: Quentin's curse will apparently follow him all his life. I was going to say that this gives things away, but come to think of it, it's interestingly alarming to hear something that doom-laden and definite. It makes things darker. It doesn't always hurt the story to let out a bit of information like that. It's not all about surprise and suspense. We all knew Barnabas had to be chained in the coffin at the end of 1795, but we kept watching.
Beth very definitely sees the transformation... and to her credit, no white hair, no paralysis... and it comes right after the murder, too. She again has sense, stepping into the pentagram. The ridiculously short werewolf tries to penetrate the force field, actually losing his balance from it. Then he apparently thinks, nothing more to do here, I'm bored, and rushes off. It's getting to be slightly funny to me, the moment when the werewolf becomes himself, looks around the room, concludes well nothin's goin' on here, gotta go.....!
Welcome Tim Shaw, though the rest of you have probably seen him already. Chris gets on my nerves a bit, but I have to love Tim, the voice of smartassery in the service of reason and humanity. DS sorely needed some irony and sarcasm. Quentin can't supply it all himself.... especially with other matters on his mind. Quentin's going to be a somewhat more serious sort of guy from now on.....
I love Tim milking Jamison's escape via Greg's very BIG book of mediations, for irony! I wonder, would Jamison have survived the wolf, because he's the one person Q really cares about? It was funny, Beth telling Jamison that Quentin was "out for the night". Charity tries to push for searching the house for Jamison-- the boy's own home, his father's house, her father's patron's mansion. Ridiculous. Note that what caused her to call off the search was Tim telling her she might get into trouble with her father, basically.
Nice visual moment: the wolf's bright eyes dissolving as a shot of the full Moon appears. I don't expect the subtleties in such a rushed TV program. The wolf approaches Beth, who grabbed a gun (from where?) specifically to use against Quentin. she's hopelessly lovestruck, but also, always practical. Will she shoot? End.