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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0547
« on: September 18, 2013, 07:58:23 AM »
It was interesting to hear Julia talk about how if Ang were dead, she thought she might be able to return to her regular life. She says this outside Collinwood's front door. This means Julia isn't just sort of hanging around perpetually because of her Barnabas fixation, which is the general impression I get from having had no explanation for all this time. That's one of the dangers of a show/plot running on auto-pilot... what characters are doing may make sense, but if we're not told how, it can look otherwise.
With that statement, Julia stops looking like a stalker, and looks like a sensible concerned adult. With Barnabas safe and human, not under threat, she could relax, resume her career, and she would hope, visit the Old House now and then in an ordinary, social way as a friend, and hope for more.
We could understand the pressures on her better, if we kept this in mind. Part of her desperation is about being stuck forever in this crazy knife-edge situation, while her career is in danger.
With that statement, Julia stops looking like a stalker, and looks like a sensible concerned adult. With Barnabas safe and human, not under threat, she could relax, resume her career, and she would hope, visit the Old House now and then in an ordinary, social way as a friend, and hope for more.
We could understand the pressures on her better, if we kept this in mind. Part of her desperation is about being stuck forever in this crazy knife-edge situation, while her career is in danger.