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« on: November 15, 2014, 07:16:22 PM »
Lots of edits in this episode, as 1897 and 1969 intersect. Nice collision between Barnabas's I Chinging and Ed's vampire hunting. Ed finds plenty to harrumph about in the form of the I Ching wands, which he scatters just to be difficult.
In 1969... Barnabas's real self disappears. This was never explained, and Stokes practically announces that it will never be understood, but I've always thought they were somehow planning Barnabas's permanent exit from 1897, and wanted him to leave bodily, not by I Ching, as happened at the end of the storyline. So his present body integrates with his old one or something. [spoiler](And Barnabas doesn't get back into the box like a good boy, at the end of 1897, creating insoluble times paradoxes.)[/spoiler]
Edward has dragged Barnabas to the Old House basement cell. Every mansion must have its dungeon, it's in the zoning laws. So why is the desk in the cell? This was one of my favorite moments when I was a kid, Barnabas sending a message through time simply by putting a letter in a drawer! I'm afraid my current self just pokes holes in everything, like Amy's just happening to open the secret compartment by accident at that time. She's very cheerful in this scene, despite David's being near death. Julia goes to Quentinwood and asks to talk to Q, when he doesn't talk. In fact, it was the impossibility of having a conversation that drove Barnabas to try the I Ching.