I've had mountains of words to say on this episode in the past... all that is probably to be seen in the link here to the old WP thread. Not this time. I seem to be burnt out on the big episodes, and need to find other not so obvious big ones to talk on.
I'm glad they redid the Curse scene next episode, so we have a choice of takes. I wish Lara had fallen back at least a step or two, to show an impact happened. That sort of thing was less important on TV then.
I used to not Mr. Frid's scream, which I felt overcame the incompetence of the squeaky, silly bat, and made this a pivotal moment, where a;ll the innocence was being ripped out of Barnabas's soul against his will, for all time. My neurological thing doesn't really allow me those sorts of emotional reactions to TV or anything, anymore, I guess.
For years, my tapes ended with the following episode, so those from here on I'm less familiar with, so I should find it easier to have things to say on them. I need to haul a big box out of the closet with a different set of tapes for that, sent me kindly by a DS Forums member. This might be ny third viewing of them.
Last time I watched early Barnabas, I watched in real time, skipping 1795 entirely, treating the seance as a brief passing event between hounded-by-Dave Julia, and the start of Adam and Cassandra. Interesting. Try it sometime.
