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« on: November 13, 2015, 11:56:35 PM »
"Angelique" VO, rather than Lara. Sometimes Lara uses her own voice, sometimes her Ang voice. Carolyn tries to hold a gun on Yaeger, but he can tell she's got nothin'. He slaps the gun out of her hand, and what terror comes out her via her scream... as if anything could happen to her now. JY just scampers away, though.
Welcome back for the hundredth time, Barnabas!! His and Will's conversation is just so stilted and clumsily written, and acted. Not DS's best moment. In past years, Barnabas triumphing was always satisfying. Now it washes over me. My forty-some year long alliance with Barnabas seems to have been broken.
Barnabas Collins, 1770-1830. So he was just 25 in 1795, and 60 when he died, which I refuse to consider a long life by any valid standard, whatever the life expectancy was back then. Will and Barn conjure PT Joshua merely by hallooing him. Did they consider springing for the editing to have Barnabas actually meet his own ghost? I mean, how could they resist?
Barnabas and Quentin acquaint themselves with each other, uncomfortably. Barnabas could not possibly have spoken more suspiciously than he did, or with more canary-swallowing irony in his voice. Maybe Henry Kaplan was making wild motions in the wings, meant to indicate "More! More!"
I suppose all this must be a hoot for Barnabas, now that he's free. This may be the first such trip in which he feels he has the routine down, and he feels he "owns" the whole insane process of fitting in and passing himself off as the cousin from wherever. The earlier time incursions were stressful novelties, but it's happened just one too many times for him to take it seriously anymore, probably. And he feels superior to it all, and to everybody involved. It's all a bizarre play being put on for his personal entertainment, he may feel. It's like one of those dreams where you know you're dreaming, and you don't care all that much what you do or say because it's not real.... So what if his voice drips with unbelievable irony, it's just Elliot Stokes's crazy parallel whatever!