Fashion notes first . . . (all about Maggie today)
Maggie's velvet outfit had a quasi-1920s flapper feel to it. It's a good look for her; she's so slender that it flatters.
I'm not quite sure what was up with the sailor suit. Like hairbows, this is the kind of thing that is best left on small children and not on grown women. Entirely too cutesy for my taste.
Was less than impressed with the wedding dress. It always gives me pause. The veil has that whole doily/antimaccasar feel to it. And what's up with the length of that dress? If she was going for casual, they should have had her in a plain white dress or suit.
And then that yellow outfit for the experiment? Yeech. Between that and her hair which looked like it needed to either be washed or redyed, she was not looking good at all.
Onto the show . . .
If this is Hell, then maybe I should go out and sin some more, because frankly, it's just about as scary as a dentist's office. Satan has a desk???
There's a lesson to be learned here for budding filmmakers.
KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS!!! If you can't do it well, then don't even try. I have seen more convincing sets on the original Star Trek.
Plus the whole scene with Angelique had that whole ratting someone out to the teacher feel to it, which is not, I suspect, what TPTB were going for.
Adam has had a fine job of parenting, hasn't he? Eve didn't love him so he feels justified in killing her? Well, his "parents" spent a lot of quality time inculcating some basic values, didn't they now? In some respects, he has my sympathy. The other characters have had the benefit of time and education on a variety of levels and should know better. He at least, just doesn't.
Wondering why they didn't attempt to have KLS mouth the words that Diabolos was speaking.
The Nicholas and Julia confrontation was something really rather remarkable. This is the kind of thing that I live for. I wish to God that there had been more scenes between HAA and Grayson Hall. They both played well off one another. In this case, the writing was immeasurably better: the dialogue, the motivations, the whole structure--it was all highly superior to what's been going on for weeks.
I'm still mystified as to where the church is that we're hearing the bells, but it was definitely a nice touch seguing from that into the visit to Hell.
Oh please, there is a problem because Eve has been dead so long? Give me a break--this from the crew who had Adam and Eve both lying around for such a long period of time that we all know they should have been growing mold.
I'm also deeply curious. Okay the body was at the morgue for about what? two days? Jeff is in jail for murdering her and they didn't do an autopsy? Then they buried a Jane Doe without any attempt at locating her family? Hello?
Some good work between KLS and HAA in the scene with the Egyptian cup. I'm not a huge fan of Scott's, but for once she managed to give her character enough depth to make the relationship between Maggie and Nicholas plausible.
As for the arrival of Betsy Durkin, well, I'm not a fan. Has nothing to do with Moltke (I like Carolyn Groves a lot). Durkin's Vicki is just so querulous. The dialogue is laughable to begin with, but Durkin just couldn't sell it.
Tom, I notice, tends to get very into scaring his victims, which probably means something deep and Freudian, but I'm too tired to go there right now.
Where was all this concern from Barnabas for Maggie and her well-being coming from? A couple of weeks ago he was fully prepared and set on letting her die in the self-same experiment.
Holy rip-off! The destruction of Tom was taken straight from the fight between Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in The Horror of Dracula.
Oh my God. Bobbi Ann Woronko made her debut. There is no conceivable way that I could see that getting through nursing school and passing her boards. Also noted that the sofa from Josette's room is now at Wyndcliffe. All that aside, I've always liked Denise Nickerson. She was a very, very good and competent child actress.
I wish they had not killed off Conrad Bain. With each passing day, they cut the strings to the old DS. Incidentally, what a lot of gore!
I frankly like the post-Black Mass Maggie. What I don't get is her reversion to SYT after Nicholas goes back "home."
So the body of Eve disintegrates but her hair doesn't? What idiot on the production team thought that a skull with a wig was frightening?
I will miss HAA deeply. I know he comes back, but his stint as Nicholas made this stupid, stupid storyline worth watching.
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