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« on: March 22, 2015, 01:46:24 AM »
I'm glad we're seeing another appearance of the Collinsport train station. Is it a steam train though? I thought I heard steam... Isn't it still safer to skip town with Carolyn, Paul, than to go "home" with Liz? I mean, even if she had been normal?
At hospital-- we see a reversal of the late 1897 scene, in which an evil not-really Quentin hovered threateningly over the bed of old Barnabas posing as a new human Barnabas (well he was human then, but you know what I mean). It's much more parallel than I'd thought when I started typing this paragraph. Barnabas has been highjacked by an evil force. Quentin has a new identity as a normal human being, not who he looks like, even though he's forgotten. Barnabas and Quentin both had about three layers to their identities, I think.
It's weird hearing Barnabas thinking as a Leviathan. It's the first hint we see of regular Barnabas in there, thinking his own thoughts. His two parts are combining priorities and motivations into one thing. His real self actually comes out on top in this case, allowing Quentin this one chance at life (not strangling him when he was about to), and promising his other half that it will only be for this one time, then he kills. (I suppose he could try to strangle him again the next minute, and claim that's the second time!) He may be bargaining between his two selves, which must be very pressured, since neither half can keep any secrets from the other.
They're putting Paul into the Blue Room. Quentin had the Green Room toward the end. How many colors do they have? In the Drawing Room scene, the camera gets into the shot.
It comes out that Liz doesn't believe Paul. It all reminds me of struggling to have my medical condition believed, and the awful humoring that saps one's dignity, and energy, as one tries to get it out into the open, in order to address it. Paul's new at having knowledge no one will buy... he just blurts it all out, not listening to his own words, and how they sound, assuming that since right is on his side, others will be able to percieve it. They're not mind readers though, and all we have to communicate with are mere words, and his are lousy.... They do nothing except to make him sound like a classic paranoid nut.
Julia almost gets the story out of Paul, but Barnabas smarmily appears, exit Julia, fuming. We have nothing to say to each other, Julia says, bless 'er.