DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '10 II => Topic started by: Watching Project on December 06, 2010, 11:24:04 PM
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Robservations #1116
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When Barnabas administered the final bite to Roxanne, it was the shortest fatal bite in vampire history, expecially in the redo, I think. In vampire terms, it was a peck on the cheek. No wonder it didn't take. It's strange seeing him unceremoniously dumping her at the gazebo. At least Abigail rated a tree to sit below.
Nice silver-black dress on Julia. I interpret her fondling of her pendant as meaning she's really itching to hypnotize somebody.
I like Ivan's laugh after he was about to poison Sam, and then he effortlessly transformed into being her best friend ever! *** Sam finds Roxanne to the accompaniment of bongo music.
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It wasn't really a gazebo. What's that kind of place called?
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It wasn't really a gazebo. What's that kind of place called?
I always think of that set as a terrace, but I noticed today or yesterday that there was some overhead structure that could conceivably entitle it to be called a gazebo.
Yesterday at the end I couldn't tell whether Roxanne was wearing a nightgown or what. Today it was clear that she was wearing a very fancy dress - dressing up for Barnabas. She would make a lovely vampire in it.
I dislike Samantha for the most frivolous of reasons: she has an uninteresting face and her voice is unmusical. But I liked Virginia Vestoff's uninhibited performance today when Samantha discovered Roxanne in the gazebo.
I also liked Julia's blood transfusion for Roxanne. I don't understand exactly how Julia did it, and I'm sure that neither the writers nor the director were sweating the details, but I enjoy imagining Julia resourcefully working out how to put the components together. In a more expensive show we would have gotten a cool montage. I did think, however, that the wisest course of action would be to kill Roxanne so that she can't die of blood loss. Julia knows there's just a slim chance that she can save Roxanne. Killing Roxanne would be ugly, but it would keep her from becoming a vampire.
Meanwhile, we are faced with the fact that this is the closest Barnabas has ever come to biting Julia, and apparently it's just about destroyed him.
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I wish Julia had had occasion to determine Roxanne's blood type in 1970, finding out that it's the same as Julia's. That would have made it interesting and plausible that she knew she could give Roxanne her blood in 1840. How did she find out Roxanne's type?
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I decided Julia must be Type 0. And Rh negative.
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Exactly. In an emergency, type O negative blood can be given to anyone.