Everywhere I looked today, I saw awkwardness.
I like Julia's hair!
I'm happy for you, Taeylor, and I wish I liked it too. But today Julia's hair kept telling me that I was seeing Grayson Hall playing Julia, rather than seeing Julia herself. It seems strange to say it, but they would have done better to give Julia a wig until Hall had gotten her hair to where she wanted it.
There will be a brief respite while I ooo and ahh over Selby being in this episode. Isn't he dreamy?
Dreamy, you say? All I could think about was how strange Quentin looked in a blazer. We may have seen him in a blazer before, but it seems to me that in 1970 we've seen him mostly in a trenchcoat, which gave some sense of the frock coat he wore until the 1897 storyline was finished. That blazer just looked indecently short on him, and his long legs stuck out like sticks. When he was in the drawing room with Julia, it was really hard for me to pay attention to what was going on because both Quentin and Julia looked wrong.
I was surprised when Elizabeth seemed so familiar with the 1970 version of Quentin Collins. I don't remember them meeting. And then Roger showed up and he thought it was Quentin's ghost! I suppose Elizabeth and David, being absorbed in Leviathan lunacy, hadn't said anything to Roger about Quentin. But it still seemed strange, and nobody commented on the fact that nobody had told Roger.
Amy told David that Quentin turned pale when he heard the old familiar music, but I didn't see any pallor. I never see pallor when characters on movies and TV are supposed to have turned pale. Maybe it's just me. But if I was wrong and Quentin did turn pale, how did David Selby accomplish it?
So long to the book.
I'm not shedding any tears over The Book. It was obvious that the wrong book was burned, because when The Book fell on the floor, suddenly the picture of the snakes was in black and white instead of color. The Book may well have been destroyed in the Dark Shadows universe, but in our universe it still exists, waiting to make an appearance as some other Book.
Elizabeth, on the phone, said that Roger was devoted to Collinwood. Back in episode 76 (pause for the usual thanks to Robservations) Roger called Collinwood a white elephant. That was over three years ago, but I still have trouble believing in Roger's devotion to Collinwood.
Roger talked to Elizabeth about Paul Stoddard's body disappearing. HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO US? A classic Dark Shadows setup was completely ignored! We knew Jeb and Megan were going to burn Paul's body, but we didn't get to see anybody react to the disappearance of the body. No gasp from Julia. No frown from Barnabas. No floods of tears from Carolyn. Nothing! We was robbed.
How does David get downstairs? Would Liz be lugging the wheelchair around for him?
He gets around on crutches too and uses them on the stairs. But having the wheelchair upstairs does mean that somebody-- probably one of the unseen servants-- carried it up for him.
I decided the Collinses could afford two wheelchairs, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. But is there one for the basement?
I realize that Roger is a different character from Edward, but it still seemed wrong to see Roger and Quentin getting all buddy-buddy at the Old House, especially when Roger should still have been having trouble getting past 1970 Quentin's resemblance to the ghost of 1897 Quentin.
And in the credits, David Henesy is listed as playing Daniel Collins, not David Collins, a glaring mistake to finish off this episode of awkwardnesses.
I did like the hanging figure at the end. But since we didn't get to see Carolyn standing at her father's empty grave throwing a hissy fit to to end all hissy fits, I hope the hanging figure was Dan Curtis.
