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« on: September 24, 2014, 07:48:03 PM »
VO-- who? Kinescope. Quentin got all dressed up inbetween episodes, though still fresh from the Mill, and Magda is there, which she wasn't before. Magda gasps in shock at the very idea of such a fine man as Quentin being killed........?!
Here's the bizarre mess involving Eve, the family history, and a Barnabas who shouldn't even know most of what Eve did. I've tried to follow his reasoning over the years... Barnabas thinks that ... well, first Vicki took the modern history back to 1795. So far so good. It became evidence against her, so she returned without it. Next, Eve goes back to 1795 and acquires the book, after the court returned it to the Collins family, I guess, despite its being a product of witchcraft, they think. Eve gets it from Ben, brings it to 1968, and gives it to Vicki as a "wedding present".
That's where it stands until Barnabas bops back to 1897. He knows about Eve and the Book, even though Eve didn't go around telling her enemies about it, and died soon after. Barnabas trakes a wild crazy stab at temporal mechanics, deciding that in 1897 Eve's actions "haven't happened yet".. so the book should have made it from 1795 to 1897, with no detour back to 1968. Well, the past of 1795 was already altered by Vicki and then Eve, so that things had (now) always happened that way, before Barnabas went to 1897. It's done. The past was changed, and there's only one past.
If Eve's actions "haven't happened yet", neither have Vicki's. Neither woman's changes are superior to the other's... Yet Eve's changes are cancelled out. If they are, then Vicki's are too. Therefore, the family history never ended up in 1795 at all, and isn't sitting in the old court house in 1897.
But Barnabas is right, and it is. I give up. Barnabas thinks he's living in a post-Vicki but pre-Eve timeline, and because he thinks so, he is.
Quentin sees pentagram on Beth's forehead-- proceeds to try to save her life by mocking her love for him. It occurred to me how utterly unfashionable Quentin's sardonicism is, these days. It's great, though. Beth goes on about waltzing in Vienna, and Q retorts, "If you're ever going to go, you'd better go now!" The cyllinder record restarts on its own... what ghost did that?
Seance for poor, dead Julianka. She's POd of course, and curses Magda with seeing all her loved ones die. They don't seem to be able to make her go away just by severing the circuit of touching hands. Poor Magda. This whole story is damage control that keeps failing... bigger and bigger disasters. Knock on door, curse is coming true immediately. Julianka is one powerful spirit.