We are deep, deep into parallel time: we saw both afghans - the primary and the secondary - together in the same room today. It's possibly the most thrilling scene in all of Dark Shadows. The two afghans were on separate features of furniture, so apparently their relationship is platonic. Or, alternatively (when one is dealing with an alternate universe, one has to offer alternatives), ABC Standards and Practises put their collective foot down. Do we know the genders of the afghans?
Other than that, I couldn't stand the episode. Jonathan Frid is quite right: unmitigated evil is no fun to watch. Or, alternatively, Christopher Pennock as the bad guy is no fun to watch. I had enough of him being bad in the Leviathan storyline.
And I don't like Elizabeth Eis in this downbeat subplot. She was great as Nelle Gunston, full of guts and gumption. But Buffie is hopeless, and apparently feels some attraction to John Yaeger simply because of her hopelessness. It just doesn't work for me. I was far more distracted than I should have been by the mention of Worcester, which is where Buffie, in her hopelessness, thinks she'll end up if she leaves Collinsport. Or, alternatively, I would have been distracted anyway by the mention of Worcester, but today I was delighted to be distracted. Worcester was mentioned in the 1897 storyline, as the place where Tim Shaw's best friend had ended up. I know somebody who lives in Worcester, but she wishes she lived in New York City. That's the sort of place Worcester is.