They're rolling up the sidewalks at Dark Shadows. Yesterday the Room storyline got a huge shove towards its demise, and today Daphne suddenly started dying, poof! just like that. Not to mention Bramwell's declaration to his mother that he has deep feelings towards Daphne that he's unable to express. Clearly we're intended to believe that, but goodness, how can we? He comes home calling out, "Daphne! Daphne!" and saying he's been doing a lot of thinking, but it just doesn't ring true. It's a pity; if this show were going to last longer, I'd love to see Catherine suffering the torments of jealousy as Bramwell turns towards Daphne. But instead, Josette says, "Daphne is dying," and that's the blooper of century. She should have said, "Dark Shadows is dying."
Thank heavens Morgan remains the same. Once a jerk, always a jerk. God forbid that he should consider himself in the light of Enoch Arden. All the traditions of soap opera romantic nobility are lost on him.
Grayson Hall got stuck with exposition duty again today, to help out all the lost viewers returning to the fold now that Dark Shadows is on its last legs.
Nice voiceover by Jonathan Frid. Usually his voiceovers don't impress me much, but when he's playing Bramwell, the difference between his voiceover voice and his Bramwell voice is pleasant to hear.
