It's an awful shame that the music box never got to do a voiceover.
On a scale of of 1 to 10, I'd have to rate Vicky's denseness today at 8 at the very least. Julia puts together the evidence (a refreshing change from Burke's mindless sounding off) and delivers a thoroughly rational conclusion to Vicky: "Barnabas is trying to remake you in Josette's image." And Vicky says no, no, how could you think such a thing!
I also had trouble with Vicky's personal idea of Josette. The woman committed suicide, and at a very young age - 22, according to the gravestone we saw a few days ago. She didn't have time to be a great lady! And anyway, what does that have to do with any insights Vicky might have derived from the experiences of wearing Josette's clothes and sleeping in Josette's bed?
There should have been an additional scene today, of Mrs. Johnson making coffee in the middle of the night during a power outage.
What did Willie have to get in Portland that he couldn't get in Bangor? I'm assuming that Collinsport is on the other side of Bangor from Portland, so even if Willie left at dawn, I don't see how he could have gotten back to the Old House before the afternoon. If I were Julia, I'd have waited a few more minutes to make sure Willie wasn't going to come back for something he'd forgotten, and to make sure that Barnabas was good and dead before taking a peek into his coffin - but that's Julia for you, the Daredevil of Dark Shadows. I can't remember what I was thinking the first time I saw this scene - but it's one that I can watch over and over again.
