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« on: January 09, 2016, 05:28:47 AM »
Grayson VO. Several days ago, I made this note: To ECS, Maggie: "I'll cushion your fall!!" Okay, now I'm starting to remember what I meant. It was the Rebecca jumping scene (as opposed to a Mexican jumping bean), and Parallel Liz had just told Maggie that if she jumped now, she'd pull down Liz too, and kill her. So I imagined Maggie looking on the bright side, and saying...
I liked the moment with Maggie explaining Angelique's promise to come back from the dead... she then says, "She kept her promise." Barnabas turns his head slightly and says, "Oh?"
Parallel Liz is awfully nice to Maggie. It's nice, and a relief to see kindness enter into thing unexpectedly out of left field, in this story. I like the dark green sleepwear. I like dark colors.
Good end moment, despite the fact that we're seeing Barnabas pull another hitherto unknown vampire power out of his hat, connecting with someone supernaturally through the eyes of her/his portrait. Oops, image occuring to me as we speak, of Hoff running in to aid Ang with a giant bottle, a yard long, of Super Powerful Industrial Strength Eye Murine, in great big comedy letters on the label. There, done now. Anyway, Barnabas, really getting into something in PT for once, decides to end the maddening limbo of not knowing whether to judge his arch enemy in this universe, by poking Ang with a very sharp supernatural stick, right in the eye.
Fortunately, he totally forgets this trick of finding the truth about who someone really is. Maybe the right sert of circumstances didn't arise again (twins, portrait available to use, whatever else), but it seems too handy somehow, for solving mysteries, sort of like biting people as an interrogation method-- though I actually enjoy that one, and it's one of things that makes DS DS.
By Joe Caldwell. Was V Welles writing under a pseudonym at this point?