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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0767
« on: May 28, 2009, 07:39:26 AM »I really like how this dream sequence is written, good job Violet! All together, "NO!"
LOL I guess EmeraldRose and I are the only ones so far who like the trippy dream. There's a sadistic streak to its dialogue that makes it even more chilling-- a gutsy move when the subject matter is a child's death. (Quentin to David: "Your short, little life.") It seems it's not only the modern-day family that gets a dream personality makeover-- in one of Rachel's dreams, Judith is seen uncharacteristically laughing her head off. I always wondered, btw, why the birthday party took place at the Old House instead of Collinwood. And with all those blue candles lighting the mansion throughout the centuries, they put pink candles in a 12 year old boy's birthday cake? ... The horror! I also thought Amy (not Nora ) should have been at the party too.
What I don't like about this dream is Nancy Barrett's high-pitched puppet voice. Even my dog reacted when the puppet started singing "Happy Birthday."
I see they forgot to restage Josette to Barnabas in the dream.
I don't understand?!
Loved Quentin’s unknowing hit about the feeling about there being two Barnabas – one there watching them like something under a microscope, and the other off living his life somewhere else.
Me too. Would that make it two Barnabi?
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Hmm, technically speaking isn’t this the first time the ghost spoke?
I think it's the *only* time the ghost spoke. And it didn't happen until David was dead, which I think shows that Quentin was able to communicate normally with the boy once they were on the same plane. Of course, a ghost will later speak to a living person, which will blow this explanation all to hell.
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Any theories on where Jamison’s dream came from? Who made sure he had the dream to pass on the clues? Only realistic suspects I see are the ghosts (more likely Beth) and Angelique as the most likely suspect. She’s there, knows what will happen, and apparently wants them to succeed for whatever reasons of her own.
My guess is that Barnabas' astral presence in that century while his body remained in 1969 maintained a connection between the two periods. I don't think Angelique sent the dream since [spoiler]she later shows up to press Barnabas to forget about his mission and return with her to his time. If she was that concerned about his becoming trapped in the past, sending a dream about David's death would not have helped her cause.[/spoiler] Like I said, I'm just guessing.
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Poor Quentin, trapped the drawing room for yet another conversation about the creature and killing it – and having to cover and pretend and not let anyone catch on. He holds it together pretty well, until they start talking about poor mangled bloody Dorcas, then he snaps.
Why must he always take it out on the glassware?
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Interesting that Barnabas chooses to explain Jamison’s dream to Judith in terms of modern psychology; that David Collins was created by Jamison to act out what’s troubling him. I’m wondering whether people in 1897 would have taken that seriously, given the bad reputation psychiatrists had at the time.
Also interesting, I think, is that in Europe at that same time, Freud was writing about dreams as the windows to our unconscious conflicts.
The dream lasted 10 minutes, btw-- not quite half the ep but darn close to it.