Four digits!! Hurrah!! This is sort of a.... milestone, isn't it?
Yes and no. It's not the thousandth episode, since there were several pre-emptions. But it's still something.
Was that Jenny's gravestone by the door to the mausoleum?
Now that it has been revealed for certain that Alexis is Alexis, I feel free to say how much I like Lara Parker's performance as the good twin. It's very low key, quite different from her standard Angelique performance, and Alexis's goodness shines out. In our own time band, Angelique's evil was in contrast with Josette's goodness and uprightness. In parallel time, Angelique's evil (I think I can say that without spoilers: it takes evil to contemplate destroying your twin sister) is in contrast with Alexis's goodness, but I don't see uprightness in Alexis. There are doubts all along the way. Poor thing, linked in a twinly way with a somebody like Angelique. Her life must have been very strange. She had friends from whom she could hitch a ride from Italy across the Atlantic, and apparently she didn't have to worry about taking a leave of absence from a job - and yet she seemed always to think of herself as the lesser twin.
So the two pages that Amy found in Will's wastebasket just happened to give a general idea of his new book instead of stupid little details like "Painstaking research on my part has uncovered the fact Barnabas Collins was baptized three days after his birth, not two." Right.
It looks as though Will does not believe Barnabas's story about coming from a parallel time band. I can't really blame Will on that; it's an unlikely story. But how is Will going to reconcile the lives of the two Barnabas Collinses? I don't see how it can be done. Obviously Will's answer is that the story of Barnabas Collinses marrying Josette and dying decades later is a lie, but there has to be documentary evidence of Barnabas's life in this time band that would prove that the story of Barnabas becoming a vampire is a lie. I get the impression that Will is quite intelligent when he's not drunk, but he's going to have trouble making his latest book work.