Robservations #450
Imagine her, sitting one day in her home, tending to her vowel purity or some such thing, when suddenly she is called by her agent. And off she goes, whizzing under the streets of New York City on the subway, to the Dark Shadows studio.
Somehow it seems only right that Barnabas should spend his vacation strangling somebody.
As for Anita Bolster, there must be information about her somewhere or other, but I've never looked her up.
Interesting idea about Natalie, Magnus. I'm not sure it works, but I said that about another idea of yours that I later adopted hook, line, and sinker and took much farther than I believe you ever intended it should be taken.
I think she can't have been a resident of Collinsport, because if she were, then surely she would have been either consulted or accused - or both - during Vicky's trial. So she must have come from further away. My impression is that it took less than an hour for her to respond to the Countess's call, so she cannot have come by foot or by horse, but rather by some supernatural means.
Somehow it seems only right that Barnabas should spend his vacation strangling somebody.
I can see no way that Natalie would know this semi-witch though if she's local... and by the way, how can she have powers but not be a witch?
Thing is, until now I had the impression that they actually said onscreen that Natalie was summoning someone from Martinique.What Natalie said was that something of this sort had been done successfully in Martinique. That may have created the impression that she expected her summon-ee to be from Martinique. But Natalie said didn't know whom she'd be summoning. She didn't know if it would be a good witch or a bad witch. Hmm...given Trask's eerie resemblance to the Wicked Witch of the West, wouldn't he have been surprised if he found himself being extracted from the basement of the Old House, summarily resurrected, and delivered to Collinwood?
I mean, when you took on an idea of mine...Magnus, that was when you suggested that Barnabas didn't originally know in 1795 that Angelique was the witch. My final conclusion was that all Angelique ever did was to break Sarah's doll. By mistake.
Maybe Barnabas never read the job-description.He sure didn't bother to ask Angelique for any details before he strangled her.
He sure didn't bother to ask Angelique for any details before he strangled her.
First thing.... station employees/guards outside the Old House, away from the house, so no person or sound would interrupt. Would that have been hard?Well, yes, it would have been, because Joshua had gotten rid of everybody so Natalie could send out her SOS.
Insane people can summon the strength to do things that seem physically impossible. I've never seen this in action, but I believe it: they don't worry about the consequences, and put their heart and nerve and sinew into whatever it is that they feel they must do. And Millicent felt she must put up a facade of being normal - or anyway, her crackpot version of normal.
Insane people can summon the strength to do things that seem physically impossible. I've never seen this in action, but I believe it: they don't worry about the consequences, and put their heart and nerve and sinew into whatever it is that they feel they must do. And Millicent felt she must put up a facade of being normal - or anyway, her crackpot version of normal.
Really? I just awakened and already I've learned something. Well explained too. Adrenaline I suppose, though I never understood how that could make you stronger.
Something about "not being herself". On Dark Shadows, that phrase takes on a far wider meaning than it does in the real world.
And MB, you know I love the slideshow, right? I was just amused.