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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1002
« on: October 30, 2015, 04:30:26 PM »
MT, there's a link someplace to an article Sam Hall wrote for TV Guide detailing the fates of various characters after the show. I found this--hope it works for you.

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1001
« on: October 29, 2015, 03:01:24 PM »
Yes, thank you. He seems to have gracious through everything.

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1002
« on: October 28, 2015, 09:49:24 PM »
We will see Amy Collins (as she is known in PT) a few more times, Uncle Roger, at least according to DS Wiki.

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1004
« on: October 28, 2015, 04:43:34 PM »
Ha ha ha, Joey!

Main DS cast members will be reurning to the show. Angelique finds a beautiful bouquet of flowers on the foyer table--and a telegram (remember them???) addressed to Quentin. Naturally she opens it, and it turns out to be from Maggie's sister:

Forgive me for intruding, but I know that my sister does miss you very much. If you call Maggie this evening, I am sure you can talk her into coming back to you at Collinwood. The time is right. Jennifer Evans.

Naturally, she hides it when Quentin arrives a moment later.

Dameon Edwards gets some lines at last, as he sends Quentin a really bad dream....

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1003
« on: October 28, 2015, 04:32:05 PM »
Never thinking for a moment thar "Alexis" is actually Angelique, Quentin tells her about his experience with the empty room. She, however, is more interested in finding her "sister's" murderer. After Quentin leaves, she learns the drawback of coming back to life.

Amy takes David to the Loomis House attic. Daniel shocks Amy by opining that Will is crazy, then tells her about a secret passage from the beach to the basement (just as in _our_ Old House!). While Daniel is hunting for the sword Amy told him she had found, he suddenly hears the sound of a heartbeat. Amy can’t hear it, but then Daniel comes on several paintings, one of which is a portrait of Barnabas Collins, faded with time and neglect. When she looks at the painting, Amy shrieks and faints. Fred (aka Wilfred Block, played by Edmund Hashim), a caretaker on the estate, hears her and rushes in. He brings both kids back to Collinwood. Angelique comes downstairs and takes a sudden interest in Fred, but Quentin arrives.

Angelique next goes to visit her aunt Hannah, who has beaded curtains (remember them?) in the doorway to her living room, as well as an atrociously fake-looking stuffed coral-crested cockatoo. Thinking she's talking to Alexis, Hannah chides her for not coming to visit earlier. She recalls, Angelique used to come when she wanted to do something she couldn’t do at the big house. Angelique asks her aunt to read the tarot cards for her. All of a sudden, you sound just like her! Hannah comments, but notes, You (i.e., Alexis) didn’t believe in these things. Maybe I’m changing, Angelique says. Sure enough, the first card to turn up is that old familiar Tower of Destruction, followed by the Moon Inverted. Angelique is unperturbed, but Hannah exclaims and refuses to finish. You have no future, she tells “Alexis.” Then Angelique asks her aunt to read her palm. When Hannah looks at it, she gasps, You're not Alexis--you’re Angelique!

I always said I would come back, Angelique reminds her horrified aunt. I never had the kind of power you have, Hannah gasps. I was a very apt student, Angelique replies. Do you know where Julia Hoffman is? I was afraid to ask at the house for fear of giving myself away. Hannah says she heard Quentin sent Hoffman on vacation. I must get her back as soon as possible, Angelique declares. Why is Damian Edwards haunting Collinwood? He cannot rest, Hannah answers. He has threatened the children, Quentin, and Bruno-- And Trask? Angelique asks. You know! Hannah says with disgust, almost loathing. You know why! Suddenly Angelique has another attack of cold and demands her aunt’s help. Please don’t ask me, Hannah begs her. Angelique simply threatens her with the same cold. Why did you come back? Hannah asks in despair. You should know, Angelique laughs--because of love! I wanted to come back because I needed Quentin's love more than anything. Almost crazed, she adds, He was the one man that I couldn't ... who could always make me want more and more of his love. Shocked, Hannah says, You’re planning to kill him! No, Angelique answers. Quentin will want to die when he has found out that I have discovered who murdered me. Murdered! Hannah gasps, and Angelique provides a first-hand account: Didn't you know? In the darkness, a hand ... here ...[putting a hand to the back of her neck] ... pressed a long, sharp pin. I felt a sudden pain and then cold. She starts to feel the cold again and orders Hannah to go to Loomis House to bring Fred back here. Hannah pleads with her. With a sinister smile, Angelique says, I will haunt you for the rest of your life if you don’t obey. Hannah knows Angelique can do it, so she hurries away with a note from Angelique to Fred.

Meanwhile, Quentin is watching over Amy (who is covered in the same plaid blanket that Carolyn put over Sabrina after Yaeger’s nighttime attack). She revives, and he asks her what happened when she looked at the painting. I saw his eyes, Amy answers. He needs help. She is troubled, especially because, as Quentin notes, Barnabas died over two hundred years ago. I know! Amy says. Quentin looks across the room at the faded portrait, which now leans against a chair near the fire.

Hannah brings Fred to her house and to the waiting Angelique, then leaves the room quickly. I’ll be upstairs if you need me! she says, her voice harsh with disapproval. Fred is all for picking up where he left off with "Miss Alexis." But when she orders him to kiss her he realizes too late that the warmth is leaving his body while her cold seeps into his. He tries to move away, but she forces him to look into her eyes. He collapses to the floor. When Hannah returns moments later she finds her niece hale and well and no longer cold, but Fred is definitely nothing of the sort. She touches him and exclaims in horror, He is as cold as if he has been dead for hours!  Angelique smiles her mad smile and announces, That is the way it must be now. This is the way I will live now, and when Quentin comes to join me, he will live this way too--for eternity!....

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1002
« on: October 28, 2015, 04:17:53 PM »
Written by Joe Caldwell, directed by Lela Swift (per DS Wiki)

Very insightful observations, MT. Even now, reading my notes on this scene is pretty jolting. Yaeger's verbal abuse is just as bad as the beating. This was pretty strong stuff for TV back then, but I suppose they got away with it because being _merely_ a daytime soap, DS might have been below the censors' radar. Also, then as now, censors were more concerned with nudity than violence.

Above the door of Yaeger's new room is a stained-glass panel in a flower pattern that will figure prominently in the next storyline. Yaeger's suit would have made even a 1970s pimp blush.

Poor Amy gets a break when Quentin tells her that Daniel will be home soon. Another loss from Briscoe's departure--the nice interactions between him and Denise Nickerson. Amy is about to leave the drawing room to find Daniel when she spots the crumpled note in Yaeger's handwriting. She gives it to Quentin, who puzzles over the one note in two different hands. The handwriting--it is different... similar but different, he murmurs.

When Maggie was at Collinwood, Quentin was always off to the cannery or somewhere and had no time for his new bride. But now that she's left, he seems to spend a lot of time hanging around the house.

Amy shows Quentin another of Will's discarded sheets of paper that she retrieved to draw on the back of. Has she just invented recycling or is she simply precocious in displaying that parsimonious streak that runs through the Collins clan? It seems to have something to do with a room in the East Wing, she thinks, maybe Alexis's room, but Will describes it as "empty."

Back at the lab (again), Yaeger is about to take the antidote when Sabrina comes down. (A cupboard has materialized on one side of the free-standing column, and the rabbit cages seem to have disappeared.) Rather than hide this time, he calmly settles himself in Cyrus's chair. What are you doing here? Sabrina asks him severely. Who let you in? He replies blandly, Hasn’t Cyrus ever told you of his good friend John Yaeger? Yaeger! Sabrina exclaims with deep and instant disapproval. I might have known. I got in with a key the good doctor gave me, Yaeger explains,  adding, I’m merely a friend, Sabrina. Miss Stuart, thank you, Sabrina corrects him in freezing tones. Yaeger merely chortles with glee as he gets up and walks over to her. As he walks around her, looking her up and down, he wonders, Are you always this cold and aloof? I seem to sense some kind of emotional release that is trying to get out of you--am I correct? Sabrina stolidly answers that Cyrus won't be back again tonight. I was told to wait, Yaeger says, so wait I will--especially now that you’re here. I hope we can get better acquainted. She tries again to get him to leave, but he insists on waiting for Cyrus. Even guarding Cyrus's mysterious but precious experiment isn't enough to make Sabrina stay with such a creature. As she stalks out, he tries to get her to stay: I'd like to discuss that emotional release I mentioned. She pauses, perhaps hoping a crushing remark will come to mind, but none does, so she just glares at him and goes upstairs. He laughs as she leaves, but the moment he’s sure she's gone he finally retrieves the antidote and drinks it. The transformation from Yaeger to Cyrus seems just as painful as the reverse.

Quentin decides to check out Will's theory about the East Wing. As he approaches Alexis's room he hears the children talking. But when he opens the door, the room is dark and empty--except for our David and Amy. David is telling Amy, My father and Dr. Hoffman saw Barnabas get caught here. Maybe something will happen if we wait. Amy, however, doesn't want to get stuck and would rather be in bed. Quentin watches in amazement and tries to get in, but finds his way blocked by an invisible but impenetrable barrier. [A stagehand in a blue shirt catches the door that Quentin threw open.] Can’t you hear me? Quentin calls out to them in vain. What is it? We heard you calling us. Is something wrong? Daniel and Amy answer--from _behind_ him. He turns around in amazement to see them standing there--but they’re in the room that is now behind him as well.…

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1001
« on: October 28, 2015, 03:59:02 PM »
Indeed, RQ.

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1000
« on: October 25, 2015, 12:06:50 AM »
Yeah, funny how that works sometimes....

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1001
« on: October 24, 2015, 08:27:22 PM »
Farewell indeed, Don Briscoe! And farewell to John Yaeger's false nose, thank goodness!

Alexis is dead, and Angelique took from her mind what she needed to know in order to reintegrate into Collinwood. Here are my notes on that scene: As Alexis watches, stunned, Angelique gets out of her coffin. (And no, we don’t see her do it either.) This can’t be happening! It isn’t possible! Alexis gasps. But it is happening, dear sister, Angelique replies calmly, thanks to you. But you’re dead! Alexis protests. Angelique laughs (just as normal-time Angelique would) as she replies, There were so many things that didn’t interest you, but I always knew that life is much more than it seems to be. I was able to master secrets that you never even dreamed existed. But the dead cannot live again! Alexis protests. Yes, they can, Angelique replies, with the help of the living. Sparing the writers, she adds, I won’t reveal how my body was preserved, but I always knew my spirit would never die, that someday someone would open the casket and then all I would need was the touch of a human hand. The warmth of your touch brought the life back to my body. Alexis now notices that she feels cold. Angelique assures her, You will become colder and colder until all the warmth leaves your body and you die. I need your warmth to save myself. Alexis tries to break the spell, but Angelique orders her, Look into my eyes. I don’t want to die! Alexis cries out. Your time has come and you must accept it, Angelique replies pitilessly. You have only a few moments left to live. In that time, you're going to tell me all I need to know before we change places. You will take my place in the coffin, and I will take yours at Collinwood. Alexis screams in vain as she feels the warmth draining from her body--the last thing she ever feels.

Trask calls out to "Miss Alexis," although he should refer to her as "Miss Stokes." As Trask enters the mausoleum, Angelique closes the coffin, explaining that the talking he heard was a final prayer for her sister. May she rest in peace, Trask intones, voicing the only religious sentiment anyone ever expresses in Parallel Time. None the wiser, he drives Angelique back to Collinwood.

At Collinwood, Dameon tries to warn Quentin but his ghostly abilities are no match for Angelique. A moment later the disturbance stops abruptly--at the moment Angelique reenters Collinwood, where she forgets herself so far as to look around the drawing room in wonder. I just can never believe how really lovely this room is, she murmurs.

It turns out that Chris is Cyrus's lawyer as well as Quentin's. He's concerned because Cyrus has opened a new bank account for John Yaeger with five thousand dollars--quite a lot of money in 1970. How long have you known this person? he demands. Not long, but I know him well enough, replies Cyrus. I want to meet Yaeger, Chris says, and I need his signature for the bank account. Being an unworldly scientist, Cyrus apparently didn't realize this but agrees to send Yaeger around soon. Chris climbs up the stairs rather unhappily--and this is Don Briscoe’s positively last appearance on the show. [After Cyrus next changes to Yaeger, presumably he meets Chris and kills him, because Chris is never seen again.]

Cyrus and Quentin meet at the mausoleum. Quentin decides to take one last look at Angelique. He opens the coffin lid and gazes down at what is actually Alexis’s body. He marvels at her beauty, then adds, Well, my dear, goodbye--forever, this time. He shuts the lid, and he and Cyrus carry the coffin outside. He sets a torch to the coffin, which instantly bursts into flames. Cyrus steps back, perhaps surprised at the intensity of the fire, and the two friends watch it burn, never dreaming that it now contains Alexis’s very definitely lifeless body. [As the coffin burns, someone quickly dashes across the scene.]

Up in her old room once more, Angelique is happily trimming a plant with those unnecessary pruning shears when Trask comes in after knocking (no properly trained butler would ever knock!) to tell her that Quentin has returned. He remarks that seeing how quickly "Miss Alexis" (he still should call her Miss Stokes) has settled in sometimes even makes him think that Miss Angelique (he should call her the first Mrs. Collins) never died.

Quentin prevails on Cyrus to return to Collinwood for a drink. This takes some doing, as Cyrus is always pleading his work, but Quentin finally insists he's working too hard. Quentin goes upstairs to tell “Alexis” that the deed is done. There is going to be a big change in the atmosphere around here, he tells her, and adds, I hope it will bring Maggie back where she belongs. Maggie? Angelique asks. Although Maggie’s return surely was not Angelique’s goal in coming back from the dead, she judges Quentin’s reaction and covers up her surprise and anger fairly well. I hope that Maggie and I can meet again under more favorable circumstances, she says politely. [Is this a blooper by the writers? We know that before killing Alexis, Angelique took from her mind what she needed to know about the present situation.] I hope you can become good friends, Quentin says. I see no reason at all why we shouldn’t, Angelique replies. I’m glad you came to the mausoleum with  Cyrus and me, Quentin says. It takes a big load off all of our shoulders, especially yours, and I want you to be very happy for as long as you’re at Collinwood. I feel like a different woman now, Angelique agrees. Quentin remembers his guest downstairs and invites “Alexis” to join him and Cyrus for a drink, but “Alexis” declines, explaining, After what I’ve been through tonight, I would rather be alone.

Meanwhile, Cyrus is down in the drawing room waiting for Quentin to return and bothering no one when he suddenly goes into convulsions. To his horror, he sees coarse black hairs spring up on the backs of his hands (well, glued there by Makeup, I suppose). His fears are confirmed when the face of John Yaeger confronts him in a handy mirror. (Fortunately, Makeup seems to have given up on the execrable false nose.) It seems Cyrus doesn't need the Yaegerade after all--and this time, the change took place spontaneously in only a few moments. Trying to think what to do next, he locks the drawing room doors. Quentin comes down, finds the doors to his own drawing room locked against him, and calls out to Cyrus while pounding on the doors. But for once John Yaeger is paralyzed with fear of discovery....

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1000
« on: October 24, 2015, 08:06:49 PM »
Between the Beatles and ST, my brain was full! My only excuse is that I didn't watch the show till it was in syndication on the local public TV channel in the 1980s.

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1000
« on: October 23, 2015, 02:05:31 PM »
Uncle Roger, I agree. I was really sad to see Alexis go, and I share your opinion of PT Angelique. Nice work by Lara Parker all around.

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1000
« on: October 22, 2015, 06:47:43 PM »
You're right, MB--and thanks for the frame grabs! I was completely stunned when I saw first saw it. You'd think that I'd realize that there'd be one good twin and one evil one, but that was the last thing I was expecting. *sheepish*

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0999
« on: October 22, 2015, 06:44:54 PM »
 [hall2_grin] [hall2_grin] [hall2_grin]

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #1000
« on: October 22, 2015, 02:13:11 PM »
According to my notes, Arlene Sand did just this one bit. Should I know who she is?  [hall_embarrassed]

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Current Talk '15 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0999
« on: October 21, 2015, 11:52:23 PM »
Ah well, a missed opportunity. Nowadays it would be a big deal.