DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '02 II => Topic started by: Cassandra on September 20, 2002, 09:37:48 AM
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I just have to hand it to Julia for trying to keep the peace there in Collinwood during all that chaotic madness in yesterday's episode! Here she is left alone (where the heck was Barnabas?) trying to calm an hysterical child, then trying as hard as she may to understand a very incoheric Joe Haskell who understandably seems to have lost his mind altogether,
(she even had give him her famous Julia Slap) and if that's not enough, she suddenly hears Carolyn upstairs screaming like there's no tomorrow and finds Liz laying dead out on the floor! What a madhouse! And all this happened at the same time!! I don't know how she managed to keep her sanity during all that madness? [spin] [rollb]
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she self-medicated beforehand!
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Maybe Julia was the only one in the house that didn't have a can of Moxie with dinner?
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The letters of Dr. Julia Hoffman's name rearrange on Prof Stokes' famous letter board to spell TOUGH AS NAILS.
If she ever needed to prove that, she did so in yesterday's classic episode.
And I love that Cassandra had one final appearance as a glamorous, completely unrepentant bitch on wheels!
Gothick
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I don't know how she managed to keep her sanity during all that madness?
Maybe being in love with Barnabas has a lot to do with it. After all, they are his relatives. Strange goings on should be the norm for her by now!
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And they claim Julia would not have made a good mother. Anyone of us with children know the crisis occur all at once, and guess who gets to take care of it--THE MOTHER! She was very impressive.
Birdie
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And they claim Julia would not have made a good mother. Anyone of us with children know the crisis occur all at once, and guess who gets to take care of it--THE MOTHER! She was very impressive.
I thought so too Birdie. And what a difference from today's episode when it was Barnabas' turn to take on all the madness & confusion! He was grouchy to Mrs.Johnson and all her questions, cranky with Maggie, and had little patience with the children. I was half waiting for him to run the heck out of there!
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Can you imagine Barnabas in Boston with Amy and David? How about that purposed trip to the zoo? My imagination is going over time. Barnabas in a fast food restaurant with the children getting them a burger and fries. Sitting there in this three piece suit. He might enjoy showing them the Freedom Trail. That might be the best education they have gotten so far. I am sure he could add quite a bit having lived through it. I don't think he has left Collinwood since he came out of the coffin. How would he react to seeing the Boston of the late 60th's. On thing on his side is he is the first person to suggest they put the children into a real school. When I am in Boston tonight I will think about the B-man in Boston. lol
Birdie
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What a fabulous idea, Birdie.....a walking tour of Boston with someone who lived there 250 years ago!!!
Imagine the local gossip he could share....like what the neighbors thought of the number of children the Revere's had!!....and the REAL scoop on that infernal Adams clan!!
I miss Boston....haven't been there since autumn of '97...might have to plan a trip soon!!
Raineypark
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Julia juggled everything with aplomb. It seemed that everyone was rushing to her, grasping her apron strings. I don't think Barnabas is accustomed to dealing with many things at once, given the servants who probably saw to his every whim back in the 18th century. Barnabas is being forced to be a 20th century man in a crash course, and he's kicking and screaming in protest!
He IS great with Amy, though.
Love, Robin
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Dear Birdie,
I think that it's very admirable that Barnabas would show Amy and David all of the great historic and cultural sights of Boston: Old Ironsides, Fenway Park, all of those great restaurants in the North End of Boston, Maj. Charles E. Winchester's ancestral home on Beacon Hill, etc.
But, please, Mr. B., keep those innocent little children out of the so-called "combat zone" of Boston!
Bob the Bartender, who firmly believes that the recently late, lamented Eve would be "banned in Boston."
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went to Fenway the other night Bob finally
had it! the seats are just too small!(No i haven't gotten bigger!)We do have to do something!wouldn't it have been funny to see Barnabas and amy and david at a game there! There are plenty of Bleacher Creatures
so he would have fit in!
jennifer
GO Oakland!
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Can you imagine Barnabas in Boston with Amy and David? How about that purposed trip to the zoo? My imagination is going over time. Barnabas in a fast food restaurant with the children getting them a burger and fries.
Oh my! And he thought ADAM was a pain!
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If I wasn't so lazy, "Barnabas in Boston" sounds like good material for fanfiction...I can just see David and Amy running amok and B. trying desperately to keep order, lol. He might even have to loosen that tie!
As for Julia...I remember the episode described here, I'll have to watch it again. As I recall, it certainly was "Julia in Charge". I would like to have seen more of that side of her, rather than the side that so predictably caved in to B.'s whims.
MrsJ.
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As for Julia...I remember the episode described here, I'll have to watch it again. As I recall, it certainly was "Julia in Charge". I would like to have seen more of that side of her, rather than the side that so predictably caved in to B.'s whims.
I think in her own quiet little way she really was in charge, after all how many times did Barnabas go running to Julia everytime he was in trouble or needed a favor? It's too bad he didn't appreciate her more.
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The Collins Family had their own resident MD. Julia should of set up her BEDROOM at Collinwood as her office. A bartering system were she gets free room and board. Hmmm...she seems to like the drawing room for examinations or consultations.;)
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He IS great with Amy, though.
Love, Robin
I totally agree with you there Robin. Barnabas seems to care a great deal for the child, and everytime he comes to visit Collinwood she runs right to him. Perhaps it's his own feelings for his little sister Sarah that has sparked this Paternal feeling in him. They also have great onscreen chemistry together :-)
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[hello][hello] I agree that Barnabus and Julia were great "being in charge", after all all of the other adults had deserted the children. Even Carolyn spends her time with her mother's coffin! It is understandable that Barnabus tried to stand in for Roger, but if he had not received the summons from Vicki to go back to the past, was he just going to dash off to Boston with nary a thought of leaving Julia in charge of the whole Collins madhouse? He is doing that now by returning to the future. It is too much to ask of Mrs. Johnson to be the only level head and cool voice left at the old homestead!
Afan, who is glad that he didn't leave that mess with me
to "ride herd" on.
Afan [crazy][crazy]
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Afan wrote:
I agree that Barnabus and Julia were great "being in charge", after all all of the other adults had deserted the children
They did seem to get alot more done concerning the children then anyone else has these past few months or so. Vicky, being so absorbed in Jeff Clark hasn't been shown given David a school lesson in months, let alone spending any time with him. Everyone else in the house is too busy with their own problems to try to even understand what the kids are going through.
Barnabas, at least had the good mind to put them both in a boarding school, which probably should have been done right from the start. :-)