Ang VO-- "The night continues toward a darker hour than this Collinwood of another, yet concurrent time." A sentence fragment if I didn't write that down wrong. A strange yet likeable sentence. And I know, those were sentence fragments too.
I had occasion last night to try "Hoffman House" tartar sauce again. It's okay if you aren't all that obsessed with what things taste like. Anyway, with Hoffman back from the vacation she enjoyed so much, to fill all of Collinwood with her snooty presence, I took note of the name.
http://www.bayvalleyfoods.com/products/retail/sauces.htmlWhy'd Hoff hang the Barn portrait in the foyer? Is everyone on a Barn-caused telepathic buzz now? Quentin should suspect "Alexis" of being behind the RT room. She hangs out there after all. Daniel hears the heartbeat... but do vampires' hearts beat? Why are PT people suddenly seeing RT?
Something to do with Barnabas finally having had enough? Lots of close-ups of eyes and lips.
I like Q puzzling over Barnabas, just as Barnabas puzzled over the presence of Quentin's ghost in RT. Great to see Barnabas as a source of mystery. This was needed to reinvigorate and revalidate the character.
PT makes more sense to me in DS than it did in Star Trek ("Mirror, Mirror"). Opposite personalities is more of a magical concept than a science-fiction concept. There may be other universes, but I don't think physics cares about our idea of good and evil, or opposite personalities...
A seance! Yes, they've always worked out in the past! This is just such a classic sort of DS idea, that you get in no other show anywhere! They're calling on a spirit of a man long dead in their world, but a visiting undead version from a universe next door is visiting, so.... You wonder, what could possibly happen here? What an intriguingly confused supernatural mess!
And... who's that? I don't remember!