Whenever Grayson Hall's character says something in French, like élan vital today, I know Sam Hall wrote the script.
It was strange for me when Adam was talking about how different he is from Barnabas, because I had just realized another way that they are alike, besides their unreasonable expectations of others: both became fixated on one particular woman. Does this mean that the fixation on Josette is an inescapable part of Barnabas's nature? Adam worried that the mate-to-be wouldn't like him, and I remembered the night, before Vicky's trip to 1795, when Julia pointed out to Barnabas that Josette had never loved him.
As Julia scribbled away while talking with Adam, I wondered exactly what she was writing at this late date. It occurred to me that she was writing gibberish, just for something to keep her hands busy - a substitute for fiddling with her gloves. And then when she burst out, "Barnabas, don't try to handle me," I was sure of it.
If Adam had persuaded Carolyn to go away with him and dropped the mate-from-the-Experiment idea, what would Nicholas have done? I have no doubt that he would have come up with something, because he wasn't about to abandon the idea of a master race - but what would he have done?
