Magnus, one of the things I like about parallel time 1841 is that I feel the writers have gotten to know the capabilities of so many of the actors, and are giving them stuff that they know the actors can excel at.
The Daphne's Dying business irritates me. Bramwell and Catherine are being so mawkishly sincere about it! They should be still trying to fight their incredible attraction to each other even as they sincerely protest their love for Daphne and the guilt they feel about her. And Catherine should feel the baby kicking (we don't have to worry about timing in parallel time) and, being Catherine, she should tell Bramwell all about it. But I suppose this is the section of the storyline where Bramwell and Catherine walk through the fiery furnace and are redeemed so that we can cheer for them instead of saying disparagingly, as Magda said about Barnabas and Angelique, "They deserve each other." And maybe they can, in the end, make me buy it. But they didn't succeed today.
Oh, gosh, Catherine crying at Daphne's bedside. That at least was typical. Catherine just doesn't know when to shut up. And unlike Daphne, she didn't bother to learn much from her father. "He's a doctor! He must know!"
Suddenly everybody wants to use Carrie's psychic powers. And she just can't say no. Her father needs to send her away. And dearie me, what a sad day it is for Dark Shadows when two people are snooping in a third person's room and nobody catches them at it! I know, I know, it's happened before, but it shouldn't have happened today.
