Patti, if you search the Robservations board for "Civil War" (quotes included), the results will include this instance as well as another.  (The other has David comparing Burke's feud with Liz to, respectively, Grant vs. Lee.)  The mention of the War that I referred to in my post is the same as the one discussed in replies #14 & 15... Cousins, PLEASE read entire topics before responding!

The quote by David was, "That's Thaddeus Collins. He was alive during the Civil War."  Nothing was said about his death or when the portrait was painted.

I hope your friend will share a review of the performance, Pansity.  I'm sure Selby's narration will be fabulous.  "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."  Goosebumps!

The voiceover confirmed that Julia was unable (as opposed to unwilling-- I did wonder) to give Petofi all the information he needed.  So I guess we're to assume that she doesn't remember anything about the I-Ching configuration that she availed herself of and saw again during her vision.  Yet, that she didn't reveal that Barnabas knows which hexagram it was, and held back about his body remaining in the basement for a time, do seem to be important gaps in her information-sharing.

The ep contains some series highlights and lowlights, all captured wonderfully by MB's screen grabs.  On the plus side were the brillant faceoff between Angelique and Petofi (tee hee, did you see her reaction while they were face to face and he said "power" a bit too strongly?) and her reunion with Julia.  On the very low side was the dreadful scene with Amanda and Tate.

I'm pretty sure that the door to the mill's back room used to open from the left side, but with all the different doors we've seen lately-- doors with medallions and other embellishments and "metal" doors and the paneled I-Ching doors, it's probably not surprising that they put the mill set back together with its doorknobs on the opposite side.

B:  "Julia, can you hear me?"
J:  "Barnabas."
B:  "Can you talk?"
<snicker>

Angelique (responding to Julia's explanation that there's a good chance the injections she's giving to Barnabas will succeed):  "I'm convinced he really IS a fool. If he can be cured, he'll have what he's wanted for almost 200 years. He'll be able to go back to the future and live a normal, happy life."
Um, is she talking about the same future where Lang's experiment has already cured him?

Amanda suddenly comes to realization that she is unnatural and sheds some tears.  I wish she's quit reciting her lines like she is playing to the last row in the theatre.

Her voice drives me up a wall!!  She's supposed to be Tate's ideal woman in appearance but what a pity that his strokes on canvas could not do something with her voice.  And what's up with facing the camera to spot Tate's creation and scream when the creation was clearly standing to her right?  (He was played by Alexander Cort, btw.)

When the bullet went right through Julia without harming her, it made me think of the Star Trek episode "Spectre of the Gun". Spock performed his mind meld on all the others so when they were "shot" at the OK Corral, the bullets went right through them, and they were unharmed.

Interesting.  Since that ST aired during the previous year, I wonder if it provided the inspiration?  

What a fabulously fun painting!

But I don't think it was Trask's clothes, either, because I remember the skeleton was wearing a red vest, most unTrasklike.

Sorry, my fault.  I meant that if we could see how the room looked in 1969 after the past had been changed, the gramophone would not be there and the skeleton would be wearing clothing that was different from what we saw originally.  I'll shut up now.  

LOL!