DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '26 I => Current Talk '12 I => Topic started by: Watching Project on February 27, 2012, 01:09:12 AM
-
Robservations #155
-
What's the object on the right, immediately after you enter the front door of Collinwood? Just wondered when making notes for this episode. Also, there's a sort of wooden hatch above and to the right of Laura's fireplace. Is that something through which wood would be delivered from outside?
Mrs. J did a good job of disillusioning Burke about Laura, except that it didn't really take.
Laura smites Liz.
No end credits or "DC Productions" or anything, at end.
-
Mrs J runs to Burke to say Laura is playing him and he becomes unglued and accuses her of being the liar. Burke runs to Laura to make sure and he melts when he sees her. Soon his passion burns to a fever. Liz goes out to the cottage and catches the lovers in a hot kiss.
-
To help convince David to go away with her, Laura gives him not an electric train set or a baseballl mitt--but a music box? Seriously....
Elizabeth is in her first coma.
-
To help convince David to go away with her, Laura gives him not an electric train set or a baseballl mitt--but a music box? Seriously....
The kid begged her for it, didn't he?
-
Yes, he did. That's even weirder.
-
I'm guessing Elizabeth might need to look elsewhere for someone to carry on the Collins family.
-
Gee, a boy isn't allowed to like a music box without having his sexuality questioned? [snow_wink]
But be that as it may, deep down David is desperate to have a relationship with a mother who hasn't been a part of his life for a long time. The music box belongs to his mother, so David sees the music box as a part of her, and having it would be like having a part of her - and a part of her that would still be with him when she isn't physically with him. Wanting it is perfectly understandable within the storyline. And it's no wonder David has such a violent reaction to Liz when she tells him she doesn't want him to spend time with his mother.
-
Gee, a boy isn't allowed to like a music box without having his sexuality questioned? [snow_wink]
I know, I know. But I was thinking in the context of 1967, when there were girls' toys and boys' toys--and never the twain did meet. And I know too that technically the music box wasn't a toy per se but something that belonged to Laura, and that's why David was so eager to have it.
-
Liz faints so elegantly. The last time I fainted, I broke a chair. I did notice today, however, that Collinwood's mid-foyer table had been removed for the occasion, so perhaps, after all, there were some concerns beforehand.
Burke apologizes to Mrs. Johnson for losing his temper, and says it won't happen again. It's happened before, so Mrs. Johnson should know by know that it's bound to happen again, but Burke is paying her. What does she do with the money? She doesn't appear to need it; she always manages to land a job with room and board. Anyway, it was pleasant to see her telling Burke off. And I wish to apologize to the spirit of Clarice Blackburn, and beg her forgiveness. I suggested yesterday that she had laid it on a bit thick. How wrong I was! It wasn't Clarice Blackburn who was laying it on thick; it was Mrs. Johnson. That became clear to me today.
To help convince David to go away with her, Laura gives him not an electric train set or a baseballl mitt--but a music box?
It's a music box! On Dark Shadows! How could he not want it?
What's the object on the right, immediately after you enter the front door of Collinwood?
It seems to me that there was a topic about that, years and years ago. I can't think of a good word to use in a search for that topic, however. I think it appears in all time periods, so it can't be an electric warmer to give you a blast of hot air when you come in from the freezing Maine winter air. Maybe it's got a slot in the top so you can drop your business card in for a weekly drawing to win a night locked up in the west wing.
I was thinking, as Elizabeth scolded David for seeing his mother, that she no longer had any reason to keep Laura from seeing David, because David now likes Laura. I've no doubt that this is due to some spell that Laura cast over him, but Elizabeth doesn't know that, any more than she knows that the picture of Laura, and David's resulting nightmares, came from Josette. But we do know that before Laura and Josette started David's head spinning first one way and then the other (hmm...I've never seen The Exorcist, but doesn't something like that happen in that movie?), David had declared that Laura wasn't his mother. What a long time ago that was! So Elizabeth is right to want to keep Laura and David apart - but the reason is hidden like a pea beneath a few layers of spells.
I thought Laura was just going to let Burke leave, rather than conciliating him. After all, she doesn't need him to help her get David anymore. But I suppose it makes sense for her not to assume she won't need his help in the future.
-
To help convince David to go away with her, Laura gives him not an electric train set or a baseballl mitt--but a music box? Seriously....
I looked at it in a 1967 way also and remembering how I secretly ordered Josette's music box and kept it hidden on the top shelf of the bookcase where my Roger would be too lazy to look and the little kids couldn't get at it.