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« on: August 06, 2015, 01:55:35 PM »
N Barrett VO. BLAIR! No grey suit. I say, fine, if the storyline isn't going anywhere anyway, why not throw in the kitchen sink? Blair's appearance makes me wonder how Hell and the Devil fit in with the Leviathans... or are they two separate and conflicting underworld evil realms/forces? Would Satan like the idea of Leviathans taking over the world? He wants to corrupt humans, not kill them off and make them slaves or snakes, right? Maybe humanity would die and he'd get a lot more people into lava lakes... But I can't see Satan liking the outcome the Leviathans want.
Still, it was now Nick's idea all along. This is a bitter Nicholas just barely maintaining his composure, stressed, about to snap. I much prefer this version over calm, collected Blair from 1968. I love his saying "Let there be light!" And then there was. Nice gall to that. A few outraged letters resulted, I hope.
This makes more sense out of Barnabas having been chosen by the Leviathans. Nick knew all about Barnabas, and built his plan around him. I suppose Nicholas delayed showing up because, as he says, his name is known there. Could he just take up residence in his old house? Did he own that? I don't get a sense of his living anywhere, in this storyline.
I love the moment when Nick has gone into the new Room, ordering Jeb in, then Jeb decides to run out the front door, and Nick appears behind that door, stopping him. Why? Because Humbert A. A. had to have run, fast, behind the window to be at the other door when it opened! They pan off the window so we don't see it! Of course, HAA is entirely collected and unwinded...
Blair and Jeb seem too close to the same height. Carolyn dreams again...Bruno asks Nick "Why Collinwood?" A very good question that Nick seems to duck, with a Dr Who-ish sort of "I'll explain later" line. I don't think he ever says. It's clear, though, that Barnabas, a Collins, was key to all this, and the Collins resources would help enormously.
So much could be explained with the simple word "hellmouth"... Bruno wants like anything to be a real Leviathan, the snake. I really think it hasn't dawned on him that his pimp clothes won't fit anymore.
So Paul Stoddard was only fifty, I found myself thinking, seeing the gravestone. I never thought I'd think something like that... Living in the dark as I do, I don't get the wrinkles he does, that's probably part of it. Here it comes, grinning dead Paul!!! As contrived as that was, with a photo of Dennis Patrick, it's still VERY creepy. That photo got D Patrick into this ep's credits.