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« on: April 25, 2014, 07:13:43 PM »
Happy happy Quentin pictured during voiceover.... Why have David free the werewolf? As a way of punishing himself for disobedience or for not wanting to play The Game, by werewolf attack? Is it like Dad making you go and make your own switch to be beaten with? When Barnabas turns up at the mausoleum because of his convoluted reasoning about someone freeing the werewolf as in David's story... they actually refer to the other time Barnabas found David there. While Mr. Frid's more engaged in this episode, he's engaged almost as bad Barnabas. It's as if that's the context he's grabbed onto to know how to act the scene, the days of bad Barnabas threatening David. So it feels as if he's building up a dark stormcloud to unleash on David, then he starts speaking sympathetically, because he's not actually bad Barnabas anymore. Strange.
This is a better episode in the vein of the Vigoda ep's, plenty of reflection, mood, depth, the required stillness to take in what's happening... without the tension level of those ep's. David's more doom-laden than frantic. The scenes with him and Maggie were well written and acted. Poor David. Maggie makes interesting, intelligent observations to Barnabas about David. No Ned, that helps.
The Drawing Room is overturned, Q sets David's arm on fire, his laugh is heard by Maggie... end.