Thanks so much for the welcome back! I admit I'd taken a bit of a vacation from DS for awhile. I finished re-watching the series in April 2011 and decided to give it a rest before returning to it at some future date (I think I've watched it all the way through three times since the '90s).

But, then, last spring, I decided to watch all the pre-Barnabas episodes on youtube, since I had never seen them before, determined that I would stop watching again when Barnabas arrived on the scene. What I didn't count on was the intense pull of the narrative, so here I am plowing through the whole thing again. I've been perusing these discussions from the past after completing each episode, but figured I was too far behind to add anything by commenting on them at this late date. However, I was so blown away by this particular episode that I felt I just had to make a few comments on it. I'd forgotten how really good this section of the series is.

It's nice to know my late night rantings didn't go unnoticed on here. But I guess, like DS itself and many of its characters, even threads from the distant past don't stay buried forever!

Thanks for putting the link up.

Just got back from the Cast Reunion.  11 stars were there: Marie, Jerry, Lara, Jonathan, Kathryn, David Selby, John, Roger, Christopher, Jim Storm and Kathleen Cody.  It was quite a turnout.  Each spent a few moments telling the audience what he or she has been up to lately, then answered questions from the audience.  The crowd was overflow - I should know, I leaned against the wall for 3 hours!

Is it me or does there seem to be an unusual amount of "face acting" going on lately?  I understand that those under the Leviathon spell need to have that far-off look thing going, but even the non-Levs like Maggie and David seem to be doing all their emoting through their expressions in these episodes.

A major spoiler in today's closing credits, prematurely revealing an identity that is supposed to be a secret.

Between Petofi and Blackwood, the makeup persn in charge of bushy eyebrows and uni-brows must have been having a field day.  

One of my favorite DS lines of all time:  Pansy in response to Beth's query as to what is wrong with Quentin:

"What's wrong with him? He's in the wrong body!"   Talk about cutting to the chase!

I'm not sure why the people at Collinwood are always sending folks off to the sanitarium when Collinwood itself is clearly the real mad house.  Everybody who walks down the stairs at this point is either possessed, suffering from identity conflict or just plain mad.

Doubly funny goof:   Right after Kitty says she doesn't always know who she is anymore, Edward calls her Katie!  No wonder the poor woman's confused!