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« on: November 09, 2020, 04:06:01 PM »
If you don't want to know the circumstances surrounding Saturday's entry in this slideshow, then don't read any further...
[spoiler]Saturday's quote:
Ep #763 (1897) - Magda - 'You MUST go and get a pentagram. You MUST put it around the little boy. He MUST wear it always-- always-- all the days of his life.'
From "Robservations 1/10/03 - #762-763 - A Heart-Wrenching Truth"
This Robservations references pretty much the entire quote - and unlike yesterday's, it attributes it to the right character. Though to be fair, assigning dialogue to the wrong character would seem to happen infrequently. Although, we have come across examples where the Robservations doesn't quite make clear which character is speaking...
One thing I've often wondered is if Magda is saying that if Quentin's son had worn a pentagram all of his life (well, if he had not died as a baby) the curse would not have affected him? He would have still been under it, but he wouldn't ever transform into a werewolf. I've never heard as part of werewolf lore that if a cursed individual wore a pentagram, it could prevent a transformation. Though, of course, DS was always free to make up its own rules. But if that was what Magda was saying, imagine how easy it would have been for Chris just to wear a pentagram. However, that would have been so simple a solution and it would have completely ruined all the dramatic tension in his storyline. Plus, maybe for the pentagram to be effective the cursed individual would need to have been wearing the pentagram before the curse took effect, in which case suddenly starting to wear one wouldn't have helped Chris. Though we'll never know because obviously Chris never learned of the possibility and, thus, never tested it. And actually, I don't think anyone ever told Barnabas that wearing a pentagram might have helped Quentin's son. All Barnabas knew was that the baby was buried with the pentagram...
[spoiler]Saturday's quote:
Ep #763 (1897) - Magda - 'You MUST go and get a pentagram. You MUST put it around the little boy. He MUST wear it always-- always-- all the days of his life.'
From "Robservations 1/10/03 - #762-763 - A Heart-Wrenching Truth"
Magda looks unhappy--you would marry him, knowing his son, if he has one, will suffer the same fate as Quentin. "You're mad!" says Beth, horrified. That's the curse, says Magda. "Then" says Beth, "you have cursed your own kin." But Jenny had no children, says Magda. "Remember the dolls, Magda?--dolls I gave her because her own children were taken from her." You're lying! Magda accuses. I'll take you to them, offers Beth--twins, a boy and a girl, who live 20 minutes away--shall we go now? I wouldn't believe it if I saw them, says Magda. You'd have to, says Beth--the little girl looks exactly like Jenny. How could anyone not know of this? asks Magda. Edward and Judith are the reason, explains Beth--I will tell you everything, but you must not tell Quentin. Magda agrees--I must know! Jenny was aware of Laura trying to steal Quentin from her, begins Beth--when Edward found out, he forced Quentin to leave--Laura left right after--Jenny was never herself from then on--Edward decided to pay her money and get rid of her--she told him something no one else knew--she was pregnant. Why didn't she come to me? laments Magda. We'll never know, says Beth--Jenny was quite mad by then, and when the children were born, Edward refused to see them, wanting no reminder of his own brother, none--it was as if his own life was based on the idea Quentin had never existed."So, there is a son?" cries Magda. "God forgive me, Jenny, forgive me! Can you hear me, my sister, forgive me?" Grief-stricken, Magda asks to be left alone. Help them now! begs Beth. Magda tells her, go to town and get a pentagram, put it around the little boy--he must wear it always, all the days of his life. "You can't end it!" realizes Beth. "Oh, a child," sobs Magda, her face collapsing with misery. "A child! I did not know. . ." She asks Beth to leave her alone, sobbing.[/spoiler]
This Robservations references pretty much the entire quote - and unlike yesterday's, it attributes it to the right character. Though to be fair, assigning dialogue to the wrong character would seem to happen infrequently. Although, we have come across examples where the Robservations doesn't quite make clear which character is speaking...
One thing I've often wondered is if Magda is saying that if Quentin's son had worn a pentagram all of his life (well, if he had not died as a baby) the curse would not have affected him? He would have still been under it, but he wouldn't ever transform into a werewolf. I've never heard as part of werewolf lore that if a cursed individual wore a pentagram, it could prevent a transformation. Though, of course, DS was always free to make up its own rules. But if that was what Magda was saying, imagine how easy it would have been for Chris just to wear a pentagram. However, that would have been so simple a solution and it would have completely ruined all the dramatic tension in his storyline. Plus, maybe for the pentagram to be effective the cursed individual would need to have been wearing the pentagram before the curse took effect, in which case suddenly starting to wear one wouldn't have helped Chris. Though we'll never know because obviously Chris never learned of the possibility and, thus, never tested it. And actually, I don't think anyone ever told Barnabas that wearing a pentagram might have helped Quentin's son. All Barnabas knew was that the baby was buried with the pentagram...