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Current Talk '06 II / Re: mrs.johnson dodges a bullet.
« on: December 11, 2006, 06:04:47 AM »[spoiler]I also remember that Mrs J barked at Cassandra "I only have two arms and two hands!" I always thought it would be fun if Cassandra smiled beguilingly and murmured, "We could change that, my dear--but not as you might have wished!"[/spoiler]
And what a hoot it might have been had Cass actually done it. I mean, it's not like Mrs. J could have simply hidden the result with a bandage like Cass herself did when Nicholas turned [spoiler]her hand into bone. [/spoiler]Or maybe Cass would have been clever enough to cast a spell so that no one else would notice.
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As we've discussed several times in the past, during the original broadcast I barely noticed Mrs J, but watching the show as an adult, Clarice Blackburn's performance in the role is one of the great delights of the series!
Agreed. So much of the show was lost on DS' younger audience. It really is quite richly textured in ways that only adults can honestly appreciate.