Discuss - Ep #0460

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Re: Discuss - Ep #0460

[MagnusTrask]

Unfortunate edit about Forbes not having hit Barnabas's heart, since Mr. Frid left that out in the videotaping.   Nathan was buried during the commercial break!   Such a strange moment, Joshua and Barnabas looking at each other for the last time.   Peter and Vicki actually have a good final scene, writing, acting.   Didn't I hear that A Moltke was giggling uncontrollably, during multiple blown takes of her hanging scene?

[DarkLady]

Joshua and Barnabas say farewell--very sad. And very telling that Barnabas's two last requests to his father--to free Ben and to try to save Vicki--are entirely unselfish.

More great scenes with Ben and Joshua. Ben enters the secret room on NOT hearing Joshua shoot the sleeping Barnabas. Now he feels only compassion for the man he once hated.

Joshua has Ben brought to the study. Fun to see how completely flummoxed Ben is when Joshua actually invites him to sit down. Mindful of the dirt on his clothes (he's just buried Nathan's body in the woods and chained Barnabas in his coffin), Ben carefully perches on the very edge of the only wooden chair. Besides freeing Ben, Joshua gives him a hundred dollars, probably the equivalent of a year's salary for a working man.

And a very touching final scene with Vicki and Peter. It would be funny if AM really did keep cracking up when they were filming it.

Meanwhile, in darkness and silence, the coffin waits….

[alwaysdavid]

Barnabas pulls out the arrow and goes towards Nathan. I would have preferred they show him bite Nathan and drain his blood leaving him lifeless on the floor.  Joshua declares he will rewrite history leaving the way for future sloppy writing to be expalined away.
Suddenly Vickie is told she has not been granted a stay of execution from the Governor. She has five minutes to live.  Peter says, "I'll find you."  Their best scene so far. Vickie goes to gallows and is hanged until dead. Too bad the entier 1795 storyline hadn't been as fastpaced as the last few episodes.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I would have preferred they show him bite Nathan and drain his blood leaving him lifeless on the floor.

Well, in DC's mind it was still far too provocative to actually show a male vampire attack a male victim. Ridiculous by today's thinking (and even the thinking later in the show), but what can we say - the mid-'60s were a different time. 

Didn't I hear that A Moltke was giggling uncontrollably, during multiple blown takes of her hanging scene?

Possible. Though I don't honestly remember hearing that story. But maybe I've just forgotten it. We hear so many stories that one can only remember so many of them - usually only the ones that make an impression for one reason or another.

One thing we can be on the lookout for is AM doing her damnedest not to crack on camera during her 1968 scenes with RD because apparently he was terrible about trying to make her do so - and a few times he came close to succeeding.

[Nicky]

Barnabas does eventually get to [spoiler]chomp on Nathan's delightful neck in #663 (I think), the weird timeslip back to 1796 which is riddled with continuity errors ... however, it does contain Angelique's best "return from the dead," so I always enjoy it.   [/spoiler]

[dom]

You missed! You die! As Magnus notes, terrible editing/voice add (don’t know what to call it). The Collinsport Strangler strikes again! I wonder if any purposeful thought went into having Barn strangle so as to not create more vampires? Nathan gets his (finally!) and is buried in the woods (is there a body count for woods burials?). Joshua tells Barn he will end his curse with silver bullets but in the end settles for a silver cross and chains – handled by Ben. I can barely wrap my head around Joshua’s final decision but I guess you have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes….

I was surprised that Joshua didn’t ask Ben to do it. Ben gets his freedom and deserves it. At least there was one happy ending in this storyline. Vicki hangs – another great Friday style cliffhanger. This must have been gut wrenching for fans in ’68.

[MagnusTrask]

Glad you're back and catching up, dom.

[dom]

Thanx, Magnus. I felt a little weird posting old reviews/opinions but I don't want to stop watching and I don't want to have wasted my time, either. This is going to be my style for some time, playing catch up. But I'd rather catch up than give up.

[MagnusTrask]

I'm reading/appreciating every ep. commentary of yours today.   Today just happens to be a day when I don't have a lot of replies in me, for anything.   I hope you don't feel absolutely obligated to catch up with the last week or two, but I'm glad you did.   These are still very recent episodes, hardly really old.