The opener is the same scene used at the end of the previous ep. And why not, considering the technical marvel that was the auto "accident"?
Poor Chris. He must hate it when Mummy and Daddy fight.
Near-LOLs...
Barnabas is a very precise car-crasher. Q's standing on the sidewalk about two feet from the shop, and BC hits him head-on while sparing the shop! Good brakes!
Unconscious Q/Grant's right eyelid is twitchy.
My TV, VCR, or their cameras aren't quite coping with Julia's shocking-blue dress, or Carolyn's orange shirt.
Barnabas drops in on Meg to prepare her for Alexander, my reaction at the time: Nice over-the-top heads-up Barnabas gives Megan to say he'll be dropping by soon! Heavy reverb, mood lighting.... Guess she didn't have an answering machine! When Barnabas is held up someplace, like at the hospital in this case, and perhaps can't keep an appointment, does he always leave messages like this? He's going to be late getting to the auto shop, and the mechanic hears Barnabas's booming voice coming from thin air, to say he'll be an hour late?
I imagined Barnabas's big dramatic echoey voice talking to Meg, immediately followed by the lights going back up, and the front door tinkling and opening, and Barnabas asking if she got the message, 'cause he likes to call first, since it's rude just to show up unannounced...
As Megan opens a wooden box, there's that music that might be my favorite. It has a possibly slightly out-of-tune horn in it. As much as I may be unable to get myself into a DS mood sometimes, this music snaps me back into it. It implies that things are more dead serious than I know, no matter how little the scene may be affecting me otherwise.
[spoiler]How long has Q been hanging around in Maine, procrastinating about showing up? Did he consider coming before he was "supposed" to, like in 1968 or early 1969? What a temporal mess that would have been..... Since David and Amy still remember Q's ghost after alive Q shows up, the ghost existed in both versions of reality! So, alive Q could have come earlier, and met himself! Or be haunted by himself....[/spoiler]
Why does snaky Barnabas care whether it's Q or not?
