Liked the whole Joanna/ghost thing. Very spooky.
Yeah, that worked. I've been thinking of Joanna as Glinda the Good Witch, not in a good way, and I like seeing Glinda as a killer. Not to mention that Lee Beery knew her lines for the Widows Hill scene. That's always a plus.
The whole Joanna business is sort of strange, however. I don't have any trouble with a ghost being solid flesh; I remember Sam Evans lifting Sarah up onto a stool. I accept that there are different forms of Dark Shadows ghosts, and I don't much worry about why. But I always think of ghosts as being singleminded (death concentrates the mind wonderfully, I figure), and Joanna apparently was not. First she was going to be with Quentin again, and then she accepted that Quentin loved Daphne instead, and then she decided Samantha had to be killed so that Quentin could make an honest woman of Daphne. I wonder if Quentin's resistance to Joanna was because she was dead. Quentin didn't know she was dead, but something - some undefined thing - might have communicated to some undefined part of Quentin that Joanna was not quite the same person she had been before. And would Joanna have killed Samantha (I'm assuming that Samantha does not survive the Widows Hill encounter) if Daphne hadn't complained about her? That sort of bothers me. An eye for an eye, a life for a life, is one thing. But "Samantha, you're in the way" is another.
Incidentally, this is the second day in a row that we've seen a ghost kill a killer.
In general I seem to keep forgetting everything in the early days of 1841PT. I don't think the early events really affect later events much.
I disagree with you on that, Magnus. I feel that we're getting solidly into the 1841 parallel time storyline here, more than was the case with our glimpses of 1970 parallel time before Barnabas found himself there. Stella has disappeared under alarming circumstances, her brother has come to Collinwood to see her, and Catherine has just agreed to marry Morgan. That's three significant events. You're right, however, that we don't see much more, if anything, of Samantha, and I wish we did. The difference between parallel time Samantha and our time Samantha makes our time Samantha much more fun to watch. I know that the scene between Samantha and Catherine increased my enjoyment of the Widows Hill scene with Samantha and Joanna.
