Now we've got Trask punishing Barnabas for what Trask believes to be the transgressions of Barnabas’s father. This is sort of unexpected. My first thought was, “He’s gone round the bend,” and my second thought was, “But when did he go round the bend?” And of course his best buddy these days is Gerard Stiles, who, unbeknownst to Trask, is also engaged in punishing current Collinses for what previous Collinses did.
I keep wondering how it was that Quentin and Samantha married in the first place. Given that Mr. Drew the father had been trying to push Roxanne into marrying Trask, I think quite probably he arranged Samantha's marriage, but how? Why did Quentin agree to it? Samantha says Quentin never loved her, and I've seen no evidence that he ever did.
Judah/Gerard is stringing various females along, which reminds me of Quentin in 1897, but I'm afraid I don't see his attraction. I like James Storm as an actor, and I think he fits well into Dark Shadows, but if I were inside the Dark Shadows universe, I wouldn't be interested in Gerard.
