It has been fun catching up on the last 2 - 3 weeks of episodes, which I'm seeing for the first time. These eps have been much better than I expected! IMO, things greatly improved from the earlier "Adam loves Carolyn hates Barnabas and Julia wants to kill kill kill believes everything Nicholas says" storyline.
Eve had potential, beginning with her name Leticia whatever and Danielle Roget being an anagram, as discovered by Professor Stokes. That's the kind of DS I like. An evil woman from 18th century France, and her lover Phillipe whatever. Very interesting.
How Jeff Clark got involved with her is a mystery. They don't seem terribly compatible, if you go by what they're like today.
Poor Vicki -- how I wish she'd just dump that damned annoying Jeff Clark. Who the hell cares if he was Peter Jennings or whatever 200 years ago? What a drip! I think she should tell him to piss off and give that nice handsome young lawyer, Frank Garner, a call!
I must have missed something when it was indicated that Maggie was unemployed ... what happened to her job at the coffee shop at the Collinsport Inn? Loved her cemetary flashbacks and was amazed at the continuity of these recreated scenes.
Still amazed that they seemed to get everything from 1795 right in those flashbacks -- i.e., the year
, who had died, who was alive, etc. They even remembered that Vicki had left the Collins family history book back in 1795! Considering all the lapses we're treated to in the course of the series, I was pretty impressed with all this accuracy!
I've even stopped fast-forwarding through the Nicholas Blair scenes now that he's gotten more
realistically mean toward Angelique -- I think it was the slap that made me sit up and take note -- or pause the fast-forward button!
Incidentally, I noted that, with respect to Peter Bradford/Jeff Clark, this was another example of what I've previously posted about -- a "resurrection" (rather than a reincarnation). That is, his physical body seems to have been resurrected, whereas with reincarnation, of course, it's just the spirit that is re-born -- in a
different body. I just think it's curious that DS has so many resurrections -- more than there are reincarnations, I think. Never having been a sci-fi aficionado, I don't know if this is something unique to DS or not ...
Hmmm... I listened for that line about Roger's cell phone that Julia99 posted about, but all I heard was Vicki say "He must have turned his telephone off." Julia99 is a very modern gal, so maybe she just substituted her normal environment/vocabulary onto the show? Actually, I was a bit surprised that Roger would have been able to turn his telephone
off in the 60s/70s ...
Will be anxious to learn more about Chris Jenning's sister "Molly" ... is this one of those continuity things I was praising above? Still waiting to hear him described as Tom Jennings "twin" though ...
Couldn't help but snicker when Angelique's call to the Prince of Fire worked a little
too well ...
Loved the bit about the charred stars present at her beginning ... oops, I thought she started out on Martinque ... or was it as the innocent Miranda in the 1600s who was only corrupted by the nefarious Judah Zachary ...
Next week: My New Theory About DS!