We have arrived at Adam's threat to destroy the entire Collins family, a threat that will bounce around the various Dark Shadows sets for the next few weeks, and annoy me tremendously. In the immortal words of WS Gilbert, "Sigh, sigh, all sigh."
Adam certainly is putty in Nicholas's hands. Stokes asks Adam to think, but Nicholas does Adam's thinking for him, and Adam says, "You're right." Adam is still very young.
Julia had a tough decision to make. She knows that Adam has done some very bad things in his short life, including causing the death of Sam Evans, and now she is asked to create a mate for him. Adam said he would kill Vicky if she didn't - but how can Julia know that the mate would not cause just as much harm as Adam has? How many other lives will Vicky's life cost?
Stokes made a sly suggestion to Julia: that she was less fond of Vicky than Barnabas was. And everybody knows that it's true, because she is not in love with Vicky the way Barnabas is, but there was also a hint that Julia is less than fond of Vicky because it is Vicky and not herself whom Barnabas loves. Under the circumstances, Julia's response was remarkably sincere-sounding, when she said that indeed she was as fond of Vicky as Barnabas was.
I wish Thayer David had deleted the incorrect use of "hopefully" from Stokes's lines, but he did not. In the immortal words of WS Gilbert, "Weep, weep, all weep."
