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« on: June 25, 2011, 03:18:18 AM »
I have to say that DS mst be partly responsible for my feeling deep down that one ought to be able to solve his/her problems with time travel, if she/he just looks around really thoroughly for some hitherto-unnoticed time travel method. Maybe in the kitchen cupboard. I want to do that to make DS continue right now.
Jonathan's choking was good in 1795. He's done it a few more times since then, though, and it's gotten melodramatic. Maybe it's that he wouldn't speak so clearly mid-throttle.
I think the key to the Curse must be that Brutus can't control more than one person at a time. That's not as romantic an explanation as one might want, but I'm being conservative here. Unless Bramwell has Kirk-like powers of resisting control which come simply from his being the hero/star, probably control of one person can be broken by the intervention of the other person. No wonder the previous Room guests failed. Earlier, I kept thinking that it might work, somehow, for the whole family to spend the night in there, and maybe this is why.
So... Brutus's Amanda-construct (or actual Amanda's ghost) was supposed to go off with Brutus again, willingly. She didn't, so the Curse was broken. So what happened the previous times? I doubt Brutus had Amanda inhabit Gabriel, to ask him/her, but who knows.... Maybe Collins men had no chance, and Brutus just played with them, like a cat with a mouse. Couldn't Brutus ask Amanda's ghost anything he liked, anytime?
Roof-- Nice line from Bramwell about their possibly have helped to make Morgan as he is. Where'd Kendrick come from? Another door on the left, or over that bit of roof? We should pull an Edward, and wonder if our hero is in league with the devil... No mention of Quentin in the finale.
Last scene! Maybe the only specific whole scene I can point to, that I remember from childhood. My impression was always that they shot that scene to introduce another vampire storyline, but whoops, they were canceled so suddenly at the last minute that there was no time to reshoot, so they dubbed Thayer's voice over it. What people say here on this board make it seem that they actually had all the time they needed to write the final scene and have it conclude the show. In that case... why the vampire bites? Nostalgia? I remember it being very funny to me at the time that this last-minute VO about animal bites was tacked on. Did they actually put a joke into the last scene?
Welcome, Harris, the 2nd Footman, as portrayed by writer Gordon Russell (even though Sam Hall wrote this one)! Keith Prentice is low in the credits. Anyone got that particular Password show that they showed in DS's time slot so we can watch that next?
I wish I had better concluding remarks. Farewell, everyone.