It almost seemed that Barnabas had been listening in on Jeff's VO thoughts in the redo, near-chuckle... Your audible thoughts are correct Mr. Clark, we're going to make another one... [spoiler]Jeff, meet your future stalker. Future stalker, Jeff.[/spoiler]
I always like it when Barnabas tries on Roger the same sort of evasive conversational tactics he uses on other people, and Roger won't have any of it! Oh yes, Barnabas wakes up with a start and realizes, it won't work on him! What got me in this episode was how adamant Roger was that Julia come down and phone Wyndcliffe (I like spelling it that way, don't know if there's an official spelling), then next thing you know, Barnabas has gotten her into her white smock (that never gets the slightest bit of blood or other bio-goo on it-- she had it bloodproofed?) and has set her to work in the cellar.... without further sight or mention of adamant Roger fuming in the foyer.
I know, they just didn't show it onscreen, but it seemed odd, as if Roger had evaporated. Also the whole journey of woozy Julia to Collinwood, stumbling on the way perhaps, the semi-coherent phone call to her colleagues and underlings, Roger and others wondering what's going on with her, all eyeing her and Barnabas suspiciously, her stumbling back to the Old House... all that's a big episode just to zoom by without dealing with it.
Good thing that in every era and dimension, there's always a silversmith in Collinsport to make silver bullets who can keep his mouth shut.... Barnabas should have crosses all over Julia's room and person. How about a
silver cross?!
If this is as I suspect our very first glimpse of Tom's coffin in the closing credits of this episode, that's a clever way to introduce it. I'm not sure that any information has ever been introduced during the closing credits before, or since. Funny how we're on a first name basis with vampire Tom, or at least I seem to be. It's hard to treat
this vampire with the same awe or formality as others when I know he was the local Gomer a few days earlier... Wouldn't it have been funny if the instant he reanimated, he'd managed to find himself a tux or a fancy suit or Dracula costume at a local store, because in his naivete he assumed he was expected to dress up like Dracula now?