ECS telling Carolyn to stop working at the shop-- I hate it in shows when someone just "has a feeling" this or that is wrong, especially when they're right. It seems like sloppy writing.
As a general rule I agree with you, Magnus, but in this case it makes sense to me. Elizabeth has seen enough to think there's something strange about the antique shop, but she can't put make head or tail of it - so "just a feeling" works. At least she's quicker on the uptake than Carolyn, who sticks by Megan through thick and thin. I think I want Carolyn for my best friend. I've never liked her much, but once she's on your side, that's it, you can do
anything and she'll back you up. Where did she learn that kind of loyalty?
Elizabeth performed quite an investigation on David's actions, going to Brewster's and getting Miss Templeton to show her the record of the purchase that David made. I wonder what Liz thinks he's getting involved in.
So our task for the next three weeks is to figure out that dream of Liz's? Or anyway, to attempt to try to figure it out. The task would be based on the assumption that the dream makes sense. Well, maybe it does, but so far I'm not seeing it. My first question is: who, in the Dark Shadows universe, orchestrated the dream? Barnabas makes it clear that he knows Elizabeth will have a dream of significance, but I doubt that he created it. Did the spirits of Oberon and Haza do the job? Or did the jovial Mr. Strack send the funhouse to Elizabeth? There's lots of laughter among the Leviathan crowd - Barnabas at the Blue Whale the other day, Mr. Strack at the Blue Whale 20 years ago, and now the people in Elizabeth's dream - but it's all pretty nasty laughter.
Were the puppets an indication that David and Barnabas were puppets too? Or did the Dark Shadows people just like using puppets? There were puppets in Jamison's dream about 1969.
Why, in her dream, did Elizabeth give in and laugh - or, on the flip side, why did she hold out for so long?
By the way, Barnabas's suggestion to Elizabeth that she empty her mind of all her problems and think only of herself is not one that I could take, if I were in Elizabeth's shoes. That sort of thing is hard to do. It seemed to be the necessary preliminary to having the dream, though, so somehow Liz must have managed it.
