Discuss - Ep #0220

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Re: Discuss - Ep #0220

[Lydia]

What an interesting piece of writing the breakup of Jason and Willie is.  It seems to be very consciously written to seem like the breakup of an amorous relationship.  "We always thought alike," Jason says.  And "I could say anything to you."  Neither statement is true.  Jason had been pretty annoyed with Willie before Barnabas changed him, and we had seen how ultrasensitive Willie could be to the slightest possible implication of an insult.  Jason is sentimentalizing the past, in a way that seems unlike Jason - but maybe there's no cost in doing so when the past is gone forever.

[Janet the Wicked]

On the other hand, we’re getting a broader sense of how close Jason and Willie have been.

[DarkLady]

I agree, Janet. However evil Jason is and Willie was, it's truly sad to watch Willie's last link to normal human contact slip inexorably away. He's almost bent double as he follows Barn into the Old House. And when the gloating Barn looks around the Old House, it's enough to make me want to wipe that smug grin right off his face--that is, if I dared.   

[alwaysdavid]

Willie revives after dark and Jason wants him gone. Yes it does seem that Jason and Willie are a cople breaking up. Willie reveals he has no future.  Barnabas has opposite plans where he tells Vickie he intends to live. Then Barnabas beckons Willie to come to their home from now on. So it appears that Barnabas has won Willie from Jason.

[loril54]

There are some ominous lines in the show. I can think that if you were seeing this for the first time they would scare you, or at least you would want to keep watching because you didn't know what was going to happen.
 
"You cannot put a price on what I intend to do there"  Very evil sounding. (The bangs are starting to show.)  "I must leave now I have an awful lot to do."  Do you think that people are starting to get hooked on him yet?

Vickie saying "the change in Willie is permanent."  That is foreshadowing, no pun intended.