The ladies were not like that when he was growing up.
Oh, no? What about Barnabas's Aunt Abigail? And Abigail Adams, for that matter.
I come in from doing stuff in my yard, and sit down to watch Dark Shadows. The first thing I see is a couple of dead bushes. They've got to go. And what can be planted in their place? Azaleas. Always azaleas.
Sharon Smyth had more lines than she could handle today, and they were written in ways that didn't come naturally to her. "Oh, this isn't the secret" - that type of "Oh" just never works for her. She might have done better with it if "Oh" had been changed to "But". It's the sort of thing that makes me appreciate how well David Henesy does his lines. Even when he muffs them, he's still OK.
What does Sarah know about what she is? Before, I got the feeling that she was a ghost of the type one saw in The Sixth Sense: she didn't know she was dead. Now she tells David that it's too complicated to explain to him where her home is, whereas previously she'd tell people her home was "over there" with a gesture towards the Old House. And did she know about the coffin in the secret room in the mausoleum before? The writers gave her a whole new dimension today - although, come to think of it, it was suggested in the "I know who's dead and who isn't" business. And later on she develops a power that I never would have attributed to the little lost girl who appeared to Maggie in the basement of the Old House. Eventually she's got to disappear from the scene because Sharon Smyth grows while Sarah doesn't, but I wonder if she developed any more abilities after she left.
So...Barnabas came to life this evening in his coffin as usual, and didn't feel up to snuff, and wanted to turn over and go back to to death again? He really needs a blanket in that thing. And a teddy bear.
