DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '12 I => Topic started by: Watching Project on January 10, 2012, 06:38:03 PM
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Robservations #122
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David has quite a lot on his mind for one so young. He’s so desperate for advice, he even tries Carolyn and all she cares about is… Carolyn.
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One of the ghosts' voices sounds like Diana Millay, perhaps hanging around the set to case the joint.
MM: "You think I'm... crazy?"
VW: "No, I don't think anything!"
She really needed the Python word "Splunge!!" right then...
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Carolyn is wearing a very businesslike suit, but the thought of getting a job never seems to cross her mind--never mind the idea of anyone else working.
Thayer David plays the only DS villain who is competent at tying a gag on the heroine.
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Oh, and when Josette calls to Matthew, her voice has no trace of a French accent!
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Thayer David plays the only DS villain who is competent at tying a gag on the heroine.
He certainly didn't require the victim to keep it in place by holding it in her mouth!
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David is desperate to have someone tell him Roger is guilty. He even walks to town to get Burke who says Roger is not involved. Someone calls Matthews name as he tries to sleep Vickie doesn't hear the voices and the audience sees Josette glow. Matthew leaves the secret room and more voices and Josette glows. Matthew goes back in and cuts Vickie loose and she tries to convince him its a dream.
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So many people were grappling today with truth versus falsehood, and reality versus delusion. I suppose that's some of the stuff of which soap operas are made, but today it seemed like more of a theme than usual.
Carolyn calls Burke, fondly believing that he'll be thrilled to hear from her, and gets cold water dashed in her face when all he can talk about is Vicky. But she probably still believes she and Burke could have a relationship.
David still wants to believe that his father is Bill Malloy’s murderer. (And, as usual, somebody or other scolds him for saying such things about his own father.) I think it's pretty certain that Matthew did it, but I really like the idea of the writers pulling off the Big Bajoor at the end of this storyline and making Roger the murderer.
Mathew hears Josette calling to him, and sees her portrait glow. Is it real? Or is he crazy? Or was he, as Vicky suggests, not quite awake?
Vicky, who is sure she saw Bill Malloy’s ghost the last time she was locked up, is sure that Matthew didn't experience any supernatural manifestations. Why not?
And we, the viewers, have to wonder: did Matthew really see and hear what we were told he saw and heard? We are still in the part of the series where supernatural stuff is very rare and incidental. Nobody’s life is changed by it. We've never heard Josette’s voice before; when we saw her ghost leave her portrait, she was entirely silent. We know Matthew is off his rocker. We know David has been talking to him about ghosts. How do we know that we didn't spend a few minutes inside his mind today?