Gordon Russell, second coachman or whatever, in the last episode.    The sexual tension between him and Julia was hyperpalpable, don't you think, despite the fact that he lived almost a century before she was born, in another universe that you can't access, except by walking into some room in a mansion in Maine.    He's not fooling anyone.    He wants Julia.    He vwants to drive her in a coach where love dare not speak its name, or something.

really?  I might have to recheck that episode. .    Hope Sam wasn't looking. .

I didn't know Toby Stevens was Maggie Smith's son!

His father was Maggie's 1st husband, Sir Robert Stephens.  But they divorced when the two sons were quite young and both her sons have said her 2nd husband, Beverly Cross (to whom she was actually engaged prior to marrying Stephens) was more their "dad".

I don't think you can assume that Julia would be useless as a doctor if she were Barnabas's victim.  I think she'd retain her medical knowledge and skill.
[spoiler]The fact that she went haywire when she was Tom's victim says more about Tom than it does about her; she responded to Tom's need for her as a simple source of blood and of nothing more.  If Barnabas had bitten her and had still wanted to use her medical skill, that would have been available to him.[/spoiler]
But I'm wondering if, as Barnabas's victim, she might have been unable to continue with the treatments to cure Barnabas of his vampirism.  If he was no longer a vampire, he would no longer control her, and perhaps for that reason she would have been as unable to proceed with the cure as she would have been to stake him.

Or she might like it (being a vampiress) and tell him to take his sad sob story somewhere else. . she needed to fly to Paris. . (via her new batwings) 

No wonder she was so excited to go shopping for her new OTLT wardrobe. . .

i don't think that media promotion is that important for this event because it is so hyper-specific and not reliant on much "casual attendance".

even if it had been heavily promoted it's not like the average new yorker is going to look at their weekend and say "on sunday let's get up,go for brunch,hit the farmer's market and then check out the dark shadows fan convention".

I have to disagree here .. just a few days before the event I casually met two groups of people who really wanted to attend but didn't KNOW anything abut it because it wasn't advertised in anyway (e.g. VV or TONY)--they weren't the "traditional" fans--so the some regular PR might've been helpful

Julia liked the big bands .. Benny Goodman. . Glen Miller.  .and maybe just a bit of that rapscallion Frank Sinatra.

 

Well too bad I was driven away from my perch on Saturn Street above the Castro --dastardly evil landlordesses .. .