I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere of today's episode. When Elizabeth was looking for word to describe David's mood, I thought: "Despair." And lo and behold, Liz said, "Despair." David Henesy did a beautiful job of evoking it.
And I loved Carolyn's story of her childhood friend Randy, and how we don't know if Randy was real or not.
But I did have trouble with some details. Why did Sarah take it upon herself to tell David that Dr. Woodward was dead? She's starting to act like his mother, not his playmate. More and more, Sarah comes across to me as a tool that the writers use to push the plot when they can't think of another way to do the job. Of course there are lots of characters like that, both in Dark Shadows and in all fiction since the beginning of time. But Sarah's a little too obvious for me.
And another detail: somebody said today that Burke was only going away for a few days. So (repeating a question that I already asked - yesterday, I think) why was everybody making such a fuss about it?
And finally: does the fact that Randy's sweater was red mean that he was a fugitive from The Sixth Sense?
