This whole episode...sigh. The previous episode only had a few bits, far and between, that were taken out of House of Dark Shadows. But in here this episode is really nothing more than a basically line by line, scene for scene remake of HODS.
Really, was it necessary for DC and the writers to rehash a lot of the elements of HODS into the first two episodes of the series? As I say, I am a big fan of HODS, but I see no reason why they couldn't have introduced Barnabas and the characters into the show with some more original material.
Still the episode does offer one new twist....the relationship of Roger and Maggie. I don't think they're in love, they're in lust is more like it to me. I believe they're both bored with the direction their lives have gone and as they say misery loves company. Though when they're getting it on in bed they're far from miserable.
I think Sam knows, or at least suspects that something is going on between them, that's why he wants to fetch Maggie when Roger uses an excuse to get her away from the Blue Whale. Sam is not pleased when Roger says he will bring Maggie back.
I like to think that Barnabas would not have attacked Daphne at all in the first place if he had been aware she was a Collins, but in here he so ruthlessy dispatches her by willing Joe to fall asleep and luring her to the terrace. At the end of the episode he tells Julia he loathes himself by committing acts which sadden and repulses him, but you would never know it by watching the way that he feeds on Daphne....
I wish I could find more to say, but as I say #2 does not offer any originality in execution and twists, save for the Roger/Maggie flings.
I still want to continue on with the show, because I do seem to remember that after this episode the series does carry on away from HODS and comes into its own from here on out. Can't wait.
