When Barnabas and Julia talked about Tad and Carrie having died when they were David's and Hallie's ages, I thought: "Maybe that's the answer to why latest haunting came exactly now. Maybe it had to do with David and Hallie, as they are right now, being exactly what was needed." If that's the case, then what would have happened if Amy had come at the same time Hallie did and if, consequently, Quentin's ghost had not been unearthed - or unroomed - until now? Would the two competing sets of ghosts have been aware of each other? How would David have been able to deal with the demands of the both? Which girl would he have liked better, Amy or Hallie? Obviously the Dark Shadows story-planners would not have had Amy and Hallie there at the same time - but that's our universe. Things could be different in the Dark Shadows universe.
Another thing: what if Denise Nickerson hadn't left? I'm assuming she wouldn't have been kicked out to make way for Kathy Cody. She's well-liked on this forum, so I imagine she was well-liked by the viewers back in 1970. And I can't see Amy being either (on the one hand) wimpy and impressionable like Hallie or (on the other hand) teenage macho like David, so how would the storyline have been written? The writers can make characters change, of course, but I think the writers would have been clever enough to get this storyline going the way they wanted without changing Amy too radically. I'd just like to have seen how it was done. Hmm...maybe she would have been as adversely affected by Chris's departure as Hallie was by the accident that killed her parents.
We got a lot of ordinary conversation in the drawing room today. It was pleasant. We got the sendoff into the blue of Chris, Sabrina, and Amy, with the general feeling that nobody would ever hear from them again, despite the fact that the post office and even telephones did exist in 1970. No particular reason was given as to why they left, but Julia's departure into parallel time was surely a contributing factor. Julia doesn't seem to feel any guilt over it, though.
I had my doubts about that eclipse of the moon, so I checked Wikipedia, which says that eclipses of the moon are no big deal. Oh, well, I'm sure Encyclopedia Britannica says they happen only once every 500 years.
Ah. That something-or-other that MB mentioned not so long ago has subsituted "bab" for "m", turning the earth's satellite into an animal fulling capable of turning its backside to the world. Cute.
