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« on: November 21, 2014, 11:50:58 PM »
Grayson VO. Quentin ruminates in the woods, about his big bullet he just dodged. He was just saved from the death that led to his haunting of Collinwood 75 or so years later... and without Barnabas! Oh the pain, the pain! (For Barnabas.) Barnabas's arrival led to Petofi being in the neighborhood, though, so he can claim credit if he wants. He'd look pretty silly doing it, though. Poor guy, he works so hard, or supervises and yells and threatens while other people work hard for him, on this problem for months, then he has to go to the coffin on the fateful day. (Bound to happen? Chances were good that the death would happen in daytime.) And Petofi swoops in, and saves the day.
I wrote down in my notes: "Why do I taste embalming fluid?" Oh I remember why, now. It was the scene in 1969 where Roger mourns David (?!? I know you from the old days Roger, and I know better!), then David comes back to life. So I imagined him saying the above... It must be at least a bit funny in context. Julia was watching this in her mind, from back in 1897. This is a slapped-together storytelling contrivance, but I like it and buy it, as part of Julia's whole difficult crossing of the barrier between times. Barnabas sells it well, describing her state to Quentin.
About Barnabas's authoritative explanation of how Q was saved, how he has life he didn't have the "first time around", he shouldn't have played it with such a smug attitude, I think. He made a lot of mistakes, and in the end, couldn't save Q, so the canary-eating-cat delivery was too much... It occurs to me that the goal became saving Q's life rather than just gathering information on how he died, and we didn't see the shift taking place. Well, this makes more sense anyway.
Oops, Barnabas thinks, I've mislaid Julia. End...