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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0244
« on: March 04, 2007, 09:04:59 PM »But I keep coming back to the thought: "Well, at least Carolyn could have listened to what Elizabeth had to say." Here's what I like about Dark Shadows - well, one of the many things I like about it: a reasonable percentage of the time, when people do the stupid things that are necessary to advance the plot, it's not because they're being gratuitously stupid, but because they're under some sort of spell, so you can still have some respect for the basic character. Carolyn is under no spell in this episode. She is being gratuitously stupid.
I don't think Carolyn was being gratuitously stupid. True, not allowing Liz to finish what she was trying to tell Carolyn can certainly appear stupid to the audience because we know what Liz wanted to tell Carolyn and why it was so important, particularly from Liz' POV. But from Carolyn's POV she greatly feared that she wouldn't be able to emotionally handle what Liz was trying to tell her - and it's a natural self-preservation reflex to protect oneself from that sort of thing. One doesn't necessarily respond rationally in situations like that. Not to mention the way things played out makes for dramatic story and great material for both actresses to work with.