Oh dear, oh dear, I did not want to watch this episode.
I noticed down in the secret file room there were arches that appeared to be taken from the mausoleum. And the cock crowed. Nice things to have on the last episode. And it felt like the good old days to have people exclaiming over the puncture wounds in somebody's neck.
I think the key to the Curse must be that Brutus can't control more than one person at a time.
I agree, in part. I don't think sending more than one person in was sufficient to break the curse, and I don't know what did break the curse, except that I'm sure it wasn't Bramwell's and Catherine's love.
So... Brutus's Amanda-construct (or actual Amanda's ghost) was supposed to go off with Brutus again, willingly. She didn't, so the Curse was broken.
I just don't believe that. I thought Brutus must be lying when he said he still loved Amanda, because I don't think Brutus ever loved her in the first place. She was just a trophy wife.
Here's what I want to know: when Amanda was possessing Catherine, was Melanie de-possessed, and when Amanda left Catherine, did she (Amanda, that is) go whizzing back to Melanie? And did Melanie's head go spinning around when this was happening?
Nice line from Bramwell about their possibly have helped to make Morgan as he is.
I thought that speech as a whole was a little too blatantly self-serving. "We've all made many mistakes, we cannot make anymore, we must go in peace!" (According to the Robservations.) Yup, now that Bramwell and Catherine have ruined Morgan's life, they might as well go in peace. But if the speech was self-serving, then maybe it was characteristic of Bramwell.
I love the fact that the final bit showed just the foyer and drawing room with nobody in it. In 2007 there was a topic:
Which Character was the "Glue" that Held the DS Together?
My answer was that it was the house that was the glue, so it was pleasing to see the ephemeral Collinses cleared out at the end so we could take one last look at Collinwood. That reminds me of the last words of Louisa May Alcott's
Jo's Boys, the second sequel to
Little Women. Here they are, slightly altered for the occasion:
"And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, a few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the Collins family."