I suppose Vicky didn't know just how much was at stake when she was calling to Maggie to let her back into the bedroom, but I did, and I was trying to get her to kick the door in. She didn't get my message - and a good thing, too. Maggie's just so much more interesting when she's under Barnabas's spell, responding to the growling of the dogs. So...the real meaning of all this is that Barnabas has syphilis and he's infecting Maggie with it? That reminds me - when they found Maggie in the cemetery, I was surprised that nobody suggested that she might have been...um...seduced.
Poor, poor Willie. Who'd have thought he had such valiant goodness in him? Was there any sign whatsoever of a conscience in pre-bite Willie? I find it hard to believe that it sprang into being out of nothing. Fairy tales are coming into my head in which a girl pricks her finger on a thorn, and a drop of blood falls from her finger onto the ground and grows into a beautiful rose - but I don't think it worked that way for Willie.
And how in heaven's name is Willie going to throw Jason off the scent? There he is, quaking like an aspen, and he's supposed to make Jason think everything's just tickety-boo while Barnabas meditates. Gosh, I laughed when I heard the meditation line. "Got the violence out of my system by terrorizing Willie, and now my mind is an empty vessel, an uncarved block, ready to become one with the universe."
I liked Alexandra Moltke's delivery of the voiceover today. Looking at the Robservation for this episode, I believe that what caught my attention was the way she said "motionless".