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« on: June 01, 2010, 11:49:14 PM »
I seem to have as many notes for ep # 1012 as Will had for his New Adventures of Old Barnabas Book. I looked at the tape and it looks like one ep's worth of tape. Someone please discipline me if I'm doing 1012 and 1013.
Lara VO. It occurred to me that Lara gets away with that small "choke" in her voice as if she's about to cry amazingly often. It happens early in the VO, and she does it in all contexts I think, often when a scene isn't especially emotional, or at least when her character isn't supposed to be vulnerable or hurt or "all choked up". Maybe that's why it's interesting. It always works, I think. She adds feeling and weight to otherwise questionable storylines.
BC can bite people from across the room (Will). Wow... BC might put Will in the coffin! Everyone should keep ascots by the front door to grab, just in case... So Bramwell had a brother who was lost in South America.
Barnabas is actually having fun presenting yet another intro/origin story to yet another bunch of Collinses who, as much as they may want to disbelieve every word, can't (tentatively), not yet. His position is strong, he knows it, and he enjoys it. He feels total control right now. He has his lines down. Will should write the great fake life story Barnabas is spewing right now!
Barnabas is unafraid to raise all sorts of questions in Quentin's mind, like when he volunteers that Will just burned his book, in a very abrupt, suspicious way. I think Barnabas feels the after-effects of weeks of confinement, then release. He's energized by freedom, fresh blood, and revenge (which always makes him happy!). He's charging right into Parallel Time fearlessly, after a long stretch as a worrier and victim. He feels bulletproof... which of course, he is!
Classic sort of DS moment we'd never see elsewhere: RT Barnabas approaching PT Barnabas at his grave!
Pre-Heatvamp Ang was (is) a worship-vampire. Just look at her face, soaking it in from Roger! [spoiler]I think we're supposed to see Roger's deflection of suspicion as sexual tension between them.[/spoiler] Ang is apoplectic about Barnabas! I'll bet she doesn't know why...
BC: 1770-1830. Barnabas talks about how that grave should be his...! Joshua is a veritable backlighting maniac, at least until he comes back from commercial breaks. JF is great now! Good speech at grave. Joshua is clueless, and flummoxed by unusualness, as usual! I like his role as protector of the family even in death, though did he really do that in life?
We're denied the Barnabas-PT Trask first meeting. Written by Joe Caldwell, maybe he is a replacement for Violet Welles, a proper one. Is RT Julia sleeping in the Room's back bedroom?
This ep seemed to last forever. That's good. Unless it was two ep's.