David thinks Vicki might be that third girl going off Widows' Hill...he sounded like he HOPES she'll be the next one falling off from there. [spoiler] Unfortunately...it turned out he was right...in the Leviathans' storyline we got that totally unnecessary plot twist of Vicki supposedly being pushed off there by Jeb Hawkes. [/spoiler]
[spoiler]Thus making Vicki one of the two governesses rather than the third, maybe, and also making her one of the Widows, since she married Clark before going back. She may have been wailing at herself in 1966. I've never been clear on whether the wailing widows went off the cliff, or just hung out there after their husbands were lost at sea. Did the story alternate to two widows waiting for a third widow to go over the cliff (as opposed to governesses)? If so, Liz didn't have to worry 'till 1970, but didn't know it... I wonder if "originally", Daphne was one of the governesses...[/spoiler]
WELCOME OLD HOUSE!!!!!
WELCOME GHOST OF JOSETTE!!!!!
Yes! Step two in this becoming real DS! (After Thayer appearing.) I kept scanning back a few seconds, to catch the first glimpse of the Old House over and over, before moving on. Also the earlier moment when the Old House is first mentioned. At that moment, it came into existence! Then it seemed we were being spoiled when almost immediately, we were heading over there, and actually saw it.
That stained glass window upstairs in the foyer... I always wonder aboutr that, what it means for the layout of the house. Collinwood must be very thin in the neighborhood of the foyer, unless that window looks out on a courtyard. I imagine that the two wings diverge from there, with one heading forward from the foyer (that you have to turn tight upstairs to access), and the other wing heading to the right from the foyer... obviously not reachable by the upstairs walkway in the foyer unless you go through the first wing a bit to reach the second wing. But that window indicates no passage from the left wing to the right, but the outdoors... unless it's a courtyard, and there's a bit crossing between wings further back. Another way of accessing the right wing could be through the downstairs door that in reality goes no place... but that's for servants, isn't it?
In this episode, we get what I
think is DS's first and best special effect. It's really impressive and effective. There's actually real "mood" to Josette's appearance, as opposed to the clumsy blue-screen disappearances etc. of later years. No idea why Josette spazzed and ran back to the house suddenly...
I intended to gush more about the Old House and Josette, but Dark Lady sort of stole my thunder...
For the first and possibly only time, I like what Vicki's wearing, but then turtlenecks always work.