My oh my oh my what an episode! Nancy Barrett does the crazy deadly so well. Oh, what a horrible house to live in! Suddenly it's all so intense. And Flora has said, and said again, that they tried going away from it, but it didn't do any good.
Whatever that coat/robe Morgan's wearing is, he's wearing it with a bow tie, which seems a bit nuts, but I guess it's a robe.
I say it's a robe, and golly it's something, isn't it? It actually managed to distract me from the amazing scene between Morgan and Catherine. I start out thinking what a sexist paternalistic jerk Morgan is, and next thing I know I'm feeling sorry for him as he says, “We knew when we looked at him that he would never be the same.” Suddenly I'm imagining Justin before he went into the room – loving husband and loving father – and he comes out a different person.
I was feeling sorry for Catherine, thinking about all she had been through in the past 24 hours – first the business with Bramwell, and then being nearly murdered by Melanie, but she turns out to be every bit as stubborn a she says Bramwell is: insisting on marrying Morgan anyway – and declaring that the effect of the Room is all a delusion and she's going to fix everything!
Quentin continues to be interesting. He killed a man who insulted his family, and if Catherine becomes part of his family, he may be willing to kill anybody who insults her - but if she's part of the family, he will not protect her from the lottery.
And then there's Julia, knowing all the secrets and dealing with them. I sort of expect her to start twitching and tottering and finally to fall to the floor with smoke coming out of her ears.
Why does Melanie, who so loved her adopted father, never wear black for him?
Because her nursemaid never puts out black clothes for her to wear?
What would happen if there were no next generation of Collinses? People insist on reproducing, especially in an age where contraceptives are not readily available - but what if all the Collinses saw to it that they had no children? What would happen to the Room?