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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Now The Return of Another New Slideshow (Sort of), Part 2 [**Now featuring alternate versions of scenes - see replies #18,#21,#23,#49,#64,#69,#76,#88,#90,#100,#105,#107,#115**]
« on: May 31, 2017, 08:36:04 PM »I actually found myself wondering looking at the photo of Davis with Joan and Thayer if DC would have changed the 1795 story to have Davis, as an altruistic version of Nathan Forbes, in a more heroic role. A thought stimulated by the fact to which I stupidly never paid attention that Jeff is wearing Nathan's uniform here, or so it would seem.
Considering that in the 1790 sequence of the '91 DS DC combined Peter Bradford with Nathan Forbes, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if that might of been the way a direct sequel to hoDS might have gone.
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Another thought I had reading through what you shared is that this time around, one may presume that Maggie did realize that Barnabas's interest in her was romantic. It's been so long since I last saw the film, and my short term memory is so patchy now, that I can't recall whether the subsequent scenes of them having dinner and spending time together while Jeff is out of town include cues that she acknowledges and accepts that Barnabas is courting her. My memory, for what it is worth, is that the scenes have Maggie's reactions ambiguous. Is she simply touched that somebody as worldly as Barnabas is interested in her, or does she realize that he has romantic feelings for her. And, in turn, does she reciprocate?
All very interesting questions. And if one is to presume that the dialogue in which Maggie says she somehow feels as if she's known Barnabas "for so long" really is a subtle way of conveying that Maggie actually is Josette's reincarnation (which is something that never actually occurred to me until after going through that scene so closely for this slideshow) it could make sense that her connection to Barnabas is so strong, if even only on an unconscious level, that Jeff's dislike of Barnabas and the way it may look to others for her to be spending so much time with Barnabas while Jeff's away aren't things that even enter her mind. In the film it certainly doesn't look as if they do. And she'd have to have a complete and total lack of perception not to pick up on Barnabas' feelings for her. He's hardly subtle about them...