The opening scene is a replay-- a tact that will become more common in future eps. And honestly, I don't know why they didn't do it more often before this point in the series, especially when the reshot material is identical to what came before.
Carolyn to Mrs. Johnson (brushing her own hair): "When I was a young girl, you used to brush it for me."
A faulty memory borne out of madness?
Barnabas to Julia: "I don't ever remember seeing this room."
I think that's very creepy-- the idea of a secret or perhaps even ghostly room. But does it fit with Mrs. J's recollection: "I was walking down the corridor outside of the room that the children called the playroom"? Since it wasn't a room before Barnabas vanished into PT, then wouldn't Mrs. J find it odd that the
children had nicknamed a [spoiler]linen closet?[/spoiler]
I'm imagining the writers having a conference and deciding, "OK, three days of getting nowhere is the limit, and after that we start losing viewers."
You may be right, because while I can't imagine it would have been easy to turn away from the show without knowing what occured in the summer in 1970, TPTB at DS weren't always perceptive at knowing what the audience needed or wanted. And actually, I thought the revelations of 1995 started coming a little too fast for me after this ep.
I said yesterday that Julia was uncharacteristically frightened, and now I see that the uncharacteristicness is the point. I wish there hadn't been a sound problem when she was talking in the Old House living room; I wanted to hear all she had to say about germs of evil being nourished inside her - or whatever it was that she said
All I could make out was that the evil entity, with just the one look, was capable of making a grain of evil that existed in her nature grow and grow. Or something.
According to Mrs. Johnson, there was a spirit of joy and love at Collinwood just before the bad thing came on the scene. Somehow I doubt that Barnabas and Julia will get the message that everybody's happier when they're not around.
LOL Shouldn't the happiness and joyness
that was felt throughout the house have been cause enough for suspicion?
Cool Batman angle. It works.
I like it too. And as a side benefit, it almost disguises the fact that the hallway will have had a remodel the next time we see it (after this scene is replayed).