Julia's eyes didn't seem to fix on Barnabas, like an actor pretending to be blind. Just an impression. As for PT1897, I suppose the names, players, and personalities could have been different from RT1897. [spoiler]What I've been thinking about is how the happy, perfect life for Bramwell and Catherine talked about in Thayer David's voiceover led to a different PT1897 and then PT1970. They started a very different family tree and chain of inheritance. Or did only 1841PT Q's offspring inherit?[/spoiler]
Yes, it's hard to see the main basement room as obscure. By the way Lydia, this time I'm keeping in mind what you said long ago, about why you liked PT so much. You talked about PT being filled with obvious but also more subtle, clever kinds of opposites for the familiar RT characters, and much like melty face Hanley I'm keeping my eye out for them. It's helping so far.
I did notice a possibly frumpy (for her) pink sweater on Liz. A more frivolous or less aristocratic manner in her everyday speech would have been nice, which we got later with [spoiler]Flora. Only with that character did we ever really see a different personality. A JB character could be a boozer, or religious zealot, or whatever, and she'd still seem just like Liz. I've seen Scarlett Street now, I know she can play other parts![/spoiler]