Why exactly did Nicholas erase Maggie's memory? Was it because he didn't want her leaving town? Or was it because if anything happens to Barnabas, then Adam is affected? Does Nicholas understand the full connection between Barnabas and Adam? It occurred to me today that if he does, he shouldn't be allowing Barnabas to roam free. He should lock Barnabas up in that room where he had Vicky, because that's the only way to make sure Adam will be safe. Imagine the hullaballoo Adam would create if Barnabas tripped over a root and broke his big toe!
The one sketch of Barnabas that we saw today at the Evans Cottage looked more to me like the Collinwood portrait than the Old House portrait, so I was wondering if it was in fact a preliminary sketch for the first portrait. Checking old posts,however, I see that the same artist, Milt Honig, did both portraits, so I guess they went back to him for this particular episode and said, “Sketch, please.”
Here's the latest victim of dumbing down: Barnabas. Last year, when David discovered the coffin in the Old House basement, Barnabas swapped it for a trunk before anybody could come check David's story. And when David took Dr. Woodard and Burke (I think it was those two) to the mausoleum to show them the secret room, the pull-chain didn't work. This year, when Barnabas heard that Maggie had escaped from the secret room, he could have cleaned up the basement and stuck some more chewing gum on the lion's head in the mausoleum. Instead he went wandering out in the woods expecting to stumble upon Maggie, and when he didn't find her, he just gave up altogether. Dumb.
