Barnabas Plot again today. Someday I'm going to add it all up - how many days for Barnabas, how many days for Jason. Vicky's doing double-duty these days - involved in both the B Plot and and the J Plot - but once we get Maggie settled in the Old House, I think Vicky becomes pretty much a J girl. My memory's been wrong before, though.
This is the episode with mscbryk's "fog that can hide many secrets". It is also the the episode with the Willie-beating - and, as usual, I jumped when Barnabas brought the cane down. He's so malevolent when he does it!
I'm very impressed with Jonathan Frid these days. Well, I'm always impressed with Jonathan Frid. But here's what impresses me at the moment: He was hired for a 13-week gig. It was just supposed to be a blip in his life, and then he was going to go out to California and start a new life teaching. This job was just going to give him a little extra cash to help him along. That's Frid's story. And yet - for this 13-week gig that was going to fall into oblivion, he sure didn't stint himself. Barnabas is creepy and violent and pathetic and authoritative and real. I've never understood what impels people to act, but I'm glad that they do.
The set-up at the sheriff's office is odd. How many policemen are there? You hear "Everybody's out looking for today's missing person" and it seems that there are at least half a dozen men. But you never see more than one or two of them, and really, it's very irresponsible of the sheriff to leave nobody there to answer the phone. You'd think they could manage to get an underpaid local girl to cover it.