Over the past weekend, I took several breaks from catching up with various domestic routines to revisit set number seven of the DVD series. In particular, the memorable episode in which an hysterical Julia discovered the *true nature* of Dr. Lang's experiment and was hollering into the phone to the operator to connect her to the police, "qu-HICK-ick-ick-icklyeeee, QUICKLY!" only to be told by Barnabas to "remember someone."
Despite the gaffe, I found Julia's next line to be beautifully understated: "You always win, Barnabas."
Barn replies something like "We checkmate one another."
And Julia sadly and quietly demurs: "No, you stop me but I seldom am able to stop you."
I thought it was a brilliant little moment, perfectly encapsulating a lot of the relationship between these too.... and it came in the wake of one of the most notorious blunders in the series' history!
G.