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« on: February 02, 2016, 10:42:09 PM »
Barnabas throttles Yaeger, and gets two, two, two victims in one. Very good look on Barnabas's face, as Yaeger pushes his sword-cane into Barnabas's thorax! It really gets across that, while not fatal, the stabbing is actually a difficult thing to endure and then overcome. I like how we get to see it as a new, mysterious experience, to which there's no equivalent in ordinary human life. The look conveys that. You have to wonder what Barnabas is feeling, right then. We can tell that there's a combination of something like pain, but also gloating. As I keep saying, these are the only moments when he gets any kind of "job satisfaction"...
Farewell, Yaeger/Cyrus. I don't like how we have to face at the end that Cyrus really was the reprehensible character, choosing to have his alter ego do the dirty work, but at least, despite the stagey melodrama of the whole thing, we do get some satisfying complexity here. Cyrus was an interesting combination of traits, who is hard to pass judgement on.
In RT Room... The word "vampire" is so seldom uttered, and it had to be said in the Room when Hoff was listening....! Keep secrets out of the Room, RT people! To confirm Barnabas's vamphood, Hoffman reprises Julia's compact mirror trick! I didn't remember that she'd done that. Nice. She finds Barnabas's coffin, raises hammer, end...