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« on: February 19, 2014, 04:41:34 AM »
At some point Barn gets Julia to heel simply by saying "Do as I say!" Well, I suppose there's little else to do at a time like that, but go along with Captain Collins and hope you don't somehow die as a result.
This is a good episode, because of the nice, optimistic send-off for Adam, and Stokes' lines, which I'm absolutely certain must have been written by Thayer himself. We complain about all the blunders and awkwardnesses in storylines like this one, but we must admit that there's something special about DS that shines through even these dark patches. Throughout Adam's story, as much of a loud mouthed selfish childish threat he was, at the same time we're shown enough of his character at other times, when he's not bullying Barnajulia, to understand that his rages and ignorance and everything, it was all understandable, and bound to happen with someone dropped suddenly fully grown but empty headed, into the world. DS knows Adam deserves a lifeboat, and another chance. What a humane message... That alone makes this better than the original movie I think, which has always left a bad taste in my mouth because of the attitude it projects... they establish some well-meaningness on the creature's part, but then he ends up the marauding monster who must die, anyway. Fault doesn't matter I guess, it only matters that the "un-natural" being is evil and must be stamped out.
"Curiosity is the most boring obsession." "I assure you death is no better than life, so don't look forward to it." Stokes notes that Adam never hid his crying before, and civilization "taught" him that, making him too "civilized". All good thoughts from Thayer, by way of Elliot.
Nice foreshadowing of Quentin, with Stokes' line about ghosts not using the telephone! I am SO glad we have clever 1969 DS to look forward to now.
Jeff dooms himself, typically, with his own rashness and incompetence, by eating the herb without the ritual first. That's what does it. Davis wasn't bad with the acting for Jeff's being pulled back in time. Vicki Part Deux brings him back.