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« on: February 06, 2014, 08:33:43 PM »
VO-- Lara calls the hooded guy with the desk "The Devil", or so I decided in my notes. Barnabas is back! I think he's transformed. He has the cape thing on again, abondoned earlier as a sign of his old vampire self I think. He's managing to assert himself and take charge in a way, despite Nicholas's hold over him and Julia, a strange feat to pull off. He was utterly bewildered and weak before Wyndcliffe, ever since Vicki returned from 1795 really, but now, his persona for the rest of DS is established and strong. I think he figured out what and who human, reformed Barnabas was going to be. He came to terms with his new limitations, and remembered a vulnerable, flesh-and-blood, human man can still be strong.
Did Wyndcliffe cure him of vamp-slavedom? Welcome, Betsy Durkin. This Vicki immediately gets out there and uses that past knowledge she'd been afraid even to acknowledge as Vicki One, confronting Nicholas immediately. So this character is invigorated and strengthened too, in a way A Moltke was no doubt petitioning for, yet it happens the second she leaves. Dan Curtis's vengeful irony or something? I wish we'd seen AM do these scenes.
I like Nicholas needing to avoid in conversation even the appearance of endorsing God, while also needing to hide his disdain, when he says, "... before your Christ was born."-- hoping Maggie won't catch that he's doing it. Being for or against God and Devil are such big matters that apparently you can't afford to betray your side even in the middle of a lie. You're just not allowed to lie to a dupe and say, "Yes, I worship God", say, if you work for Satan, especially if Satan might be listening in. It would be blasphemy, to the Devil. It's the same for some very devout Christians I'm sure. They'd never go on stage and say, even as an evil character, "I worship Satan."
Welcome back, Tom Jennings!!!! We all missed you!!! I don't envy Mrs. J having to clean all the vampire drool off Vicki's rugs...