Robservations #904
The Watching Project is going on hiatus for the next three weeks.)
ECS telling Carolyn to stop working at the shop-- I hate it in shows when someone just "has a feeling" this or that is wrong, especially when they're right. It seems like sloppy writing.As a general rule I agree with you, Magnus, but in this case it makes sense to me. Elizabeth has seen enough to think there's something strange about the antique shop, but she can't put make head or tail of it - so "just a feeling" works. At least she's quicker on the uptake than Carolyn, who sticks by Megan through thick and thin. I think I want Carolyn for my best friend. I've never liked her much, but once she's on your side, that's it, you can do anything and she'll back you up. Where did she learn that kind of loyalty?
Were the puppets an indication that David and Barnabas were puppets too? Or did the Dark Shadows people just like using puppets? There were puppets in Jamison's dream about 1969.Or Violet Welles likes puppets, since she's responsible for both dreams.
Why, in her dream, did Elizabeth give in and laugh - or, on the flip side, why did she hold out for so long?There's a line by Barnabas to David before it that I never noticed before this viewing: "Your Aunt Elizabeth has a way of taking things very seriously, doesn't she?" So I guess the dream sets out to make her lighten up, and it takes 3 funhouse mirrors and a silly rhyme (the version I remember from childhood is fat and skinny went to bed, fat rolled over, now skinny's dead... ahem, sorry) before Liz was able to relax, enjoy herself, and even laugh.
"Unknown Man: David Selby" in end credits... thanks so much for preserving that secret; who could it possibly be?!I'll forgive them this one time since we get a quick look at Selby's face at the end. [cheesyg] At least they didn't give away the name of his character, and kept the audience guessing.
I know if I was Liz and I'd had that dream, I would have had the exact same reaction to it as she did - a look of what the hell was THAT about?! [santa_undecided] [santa_wink]
Did anyone notice that the unknown man wore a watch? Snort.
No ABC logo? [wink2]
I'd forgotten all about that. [lol2] And it didn't show up in any of the captures.
In his published review, David Hofstede not only blasts the dream as DS's worst moment, he also calls it "technically inept" because of that logo.
considering how often cameras and stagehands wandered into shots, by his standards wouldn't the entire series be technically inept?