What? This is the end for Joe Haskell? I'd never have suspected. It seems as if we're just getting started with his part of the story. He gave it his all, and gave credibility to what could have been ridiculous, that final scene with a vampire and a werewolf attacking from both sides. I'd thought he really did quietly leave Collinsport eventually, as he was going to. My word to learn for today, DL, is "rictus"...
Maybe the transformation to werewolf involves more than we see, and more than just sprouting hair and a snout. That's what I started to think, seeing how badly it all affected Joe. When we hear about Medusa turning people to stone with the sight of her, we assume more is going on than just looking at a woman with snakes for hair, I think. Maybe part of it is on a level other than visual, and maybe the visual part looks very different than DS's effects were able to show us, or even what modern CGI versions do. I'm failing to imagine what it would have to look or feel like, though, to explain Joe's total shock.
I liked the "hesitant" music used in the scene in Joe's cell, where Joe tries to bring into focus what danger it is he needs to warn the world about. Some old, familiar music (I think it's familiar by this point) keeps stopping and starting, as Joe pauses to try to remember.
Scissors can wound a werewolf, but ordinary bullets can't? While the whole recurring trauma thing is done really well, with Joe cycling around and around, reliving the moment (both Briscoe and Crothers are great)... Joe dreams about Barnabas's mausoleum and refers to it as "The Mausoleum", as if it's as important to Collinsport as it is to viewers. He asks Tom what he's doing there... he should talk! Alex gets to do his cool stunt for the first time, jumping down to the foyer floor as the wertewolf...