Good one, arashi!  I remember SOMEONE.

Quentin and Laura carried on their affair at the cottage, and after he left, she remained at Collinwood long enough to receive letters secretly sent from him before running off to join him.  So maybe her kids didn't know anything about them?  They managed to completely miss that Jenny was in the tower room, which totally boggles the mind.

[spoiler]I've always found that scene oddly reminiscent of the scene in '67 where Barnabas performs his Barbados ritual in front of Carolyn. In each scene NB's character's presence seems superfluous, except as a witness - and each is a victim of Barnabas.[/spoiler]

Wow, deja vu!

DS fan Kosmo has sent me a bunch of links over time to shows with DS alum that are on Hulu.  This weekend he found John Karlen's appearance on Lou Grant ("Gambling").  Others are:

Don Briscoe in I Dream of Jeannie ("A Secretary Is Not a Toy")
LP in Swat ("The Steel-Plated Security Blanket")
Dennis Patrick as "The Golden Man" in Lost in Space.
George Mitchell can be seen as Sitting Bull in the Time Tunnel ep "Massacre."
Thayer David's Charlies Angels ep called "Target Angels"
RD and LP in their Galactica 1980 ep "The Night the Cylons Landed"
Plenty of DS alum were in Hill Street Blues, including John Karlen in "Freedom's Last Stand" and "The Spy Who Came in From Delgado."
And The Rockford Files with Lara Parker ("Sleight of Hand"), Roger Davis ("The Kirkoff Case"), etc.

Aww, Lydia, you are sweet.

This ep seemed to fly by.  Could it be because everybody in it is having sex, or at least the vampiric equivalent of it?

But if there's a theme running through it, it might be that the paid workers were all being used by the upper class.  It does seem that Quentin is developing genuine feelings, but Beth is is clearly uncomfortable with the situation such as it is while he's making excuses so he can keep getting what he wants.  Charity didn't want to even be with Barnabas at first, and after setting her straight he began to terrify her with his talk about disturbing a burial site, evil spirits, and books of the dead, sigh.  Punishing this naive girl for her great great great grandfather's sins seems cruel, even for Barnabas.  And as for Dirk, please, like Laura would want him if he wasn't a vessel for her master.

Laura got 3 dresses this time.  But she'll only need one hanger because her 18th c. dress was spectral and the blue one can now stand in the corner on its own. 

And what exactly was Charity's purpose in being present for the ritual?  To warm the settee? 

Quentin is desperate to get her away from the kids, and he's apparently truly afraid for them.  We don't see enough in what we're shown to know why this is, but is this fear because he knows she's dead?  Has he reasoned out that she wants them for some other reason?... Is that what's setting off his alarm bells, or something else we never find out.

Yes, he knows she's dead and up to something scary that involves the supernatural.  In the first scene he says to Laura, "I know what will happen to them if you take them," and when she says he can't have Jamison, he answers, "But at least he'll be alive."  (Doesn't anybody care about Nora?)

Once again we get hints about a Barnabas who was interested in the occult, when we're shown no indication of this in 1795.

Though pre-seance, we're told that human Barnabas had traveled to Barbados, where he dabbled in forbidden arts and learned Hurley's numbers from a whispering warlock.  Or something.  Unfortunately, the shock of learning his wife was a witch made him temporarily forget all this. 

Vicki Winters is preggers!  The Mar. 27 issue of EW reports that Marley Shelton is expecting her first child, due in the Fall.  Hubby is producer Beau Flynn.

"The Bullseye" asks when "Susan Sullivan became old enough to play the horny old grandma," her role in the new series Castle.  I haven't seen the show because I heard it's just not good, but can you imagine DS' other former Playboy Bunny-- KLS-- in a similar role?  I think not.

Well, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have won for Best Picture too, so I don't think his loss is proof of your original statement that he "only won...because he died."

The LA Times had a poll recently asking which actor is most overdue for an Oscar.  The field was limited to 10, but last time I looked, Depp had garnered nearly half the votes.