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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0519
« on: August 12, 2013, 01:53:13 PM »
It still does, but unfortunately not to them.

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0519
« on: August 11, 2013, 09:56:39 PM »
Were there religious critics? The show certainly has a pretty strong anticlerical theme running through it. What about the 1991 version?

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0519
« on: August 11, 2013, 04:45:15 PM »
Good point, MT. Trask the ghost hates Barnabas just as much as he did in life, so it makes perfect sense that death hasn't diminished his (Trask's) overweening pride and vanity either. 

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0518
« on: August 10, 2013, 10:43:08 PM »
Interesting on all counts, Gothick!

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0519
« on: August 10, 2013, 06:13:05 PM »
Elizabeth has spent the day at Eagle Hill. Meanwhile, Vicki calls Roger and asks if Maggie can stay at the Great House. While they're talking, Elizabeth drifts in. Roger tries to get her to talk to Vicki, but she drifts over to the french windows. With real kindness, Roger tells Vicki that as far as he and Cassandra are concerned, Maggie can stay as long as she likes. Sam’s death is news to Elizabeth, but she comments, Well, we all eventually die, don’t we? And I know who will be next. I will be next--and it will be soon. Possibly remembering the past, Roger asks his sister if she's hiding something. Apathetically she replies that she isn't, and Roger realizes that his big sister is in big trouble.

Cassandra's youthful appearance has somehow been restored and she is wearing the horrible green paisley robe while she gloats that her plan for Elizabeth is going so well. She plans to take things further by having Elizabeth reenact Naomi's death. Roger arrives and tries to interest her in helping him cheer Elizabeth up. After he leaves, After Roger leaves, she finishes dispensing some poison powder in a pill case as Rev. Trask materializes behind her. Sensing someone’s presence, she turns around but sees no one. She calls to Roger and David, but gets no reply. When her back is turned, he reappears. His chromakey bounces up and down as the scene fades.

Maggie is asleep in a guest room at Collinwood, thanks to one of Julia's sedative concoctions, when Joe arrives. Elizabeth sees not Joe but the duplicitous Lieutenant Forbes and berates him accordingly until Vicki brings her back to herself. Mortified, she runs away. Cassandra arrives a moment later and talks about "poor Mr. Evans" with her patented crocodile grin. Vicki manages to get away from her after accusing her of being responsible for Elizabeth's current state.

But Cassangelique has only a few moments to gloat (and put the pill case with its poison in the drawer of the little writing table) before she hears a familiar voice call her name--and turns to see Rev. Trask. He lists her crimes, then whips out-- his trusty cross. Cass flinches away but her power drains away and she faints.

Although he's had plenty of time to think in the dark, Trask hasn't come up with new ideas any more than Cass has. He ties her to a tree in the forest and presses his cross to her forehead. I can’t speak! she gasps. As his prayer goes on (and on), she gasps, I can’t breathe! The devils are leaving you, Trask explains. Let fire burn out evil and leave the ashes of the goodness you once possessed! he prays as he blows away a fly (classic blooper!). Let the devils be humbled and shrink, he continues (as he shrinks away from the fly), at the fear of the dark night they will shortly see! At last he finishes his exorcism. Cassandra screams (off camera). Your spirit is free! Trask proclaims, and Cassandra screams one last time (again off camera). The camera pulls back to show that she is no longer tied to the tree--she has vanished. Arms outstretched and still holding the cross in one hand, Trask falls to his knees to give thanks.…

[Despite his heroic efforts against the Dreaded Collinsport Fly, Jerry Lacy is billed as Tony Peterson, not the Reverend Trask, in the final credits.]



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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0518
« on: August 09, 2013, 09:32:53 PM »
Right as always, MB!  [ghost_smiley]

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0518
« on: August 09, 2013, 07:11:34 PM »
Fashion note via the DS Wiki: Vicki is wearing a red dress with blue trim. Maggie is wearing a blue dress with red-orange trim. What's going on here?  [ghost_grin]

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0518
« on: August 09, 2013, 07:04:27 PM »
Stokes finally arrives at the hospital and prevents Sam from telling Vicki the dream. It has to be done, he insists to Maggie. I realize that your father is suffering, but the dream is dangerous and may prove fatal to the next person who has it. [At one point while Stokes talks, the unseen TelePrompTer falls with a crash. Sam, supposedly blind, turns to look at it through the scene and motions to someone near it as the scene ends.

Poor Adam slips into Sam's room, still remorseful and sorrowful. In the only way he knows to apologize, he pleads urgently, Friend! Friend, listen! Understandingly completely and forgiving him, Sam answers firmly, Yes, friend. Help friend, Adam offers. You can’t help, Sam replies gently. The only person who can help is Vicki. No, no! cries the distressed Adam.

While Stokes is off giving Maggie some apparently lengthy instructions, Vicki is left alone in the corridor outside Sam's room. Sam says, I must tell you the dream! A moment later Maggie comes in. The doors, Sam gasps, behind the doors--strange music--everywhere--I couldn’t get out of the room--strange riddle--made no sense. He’s telling you about the dream! Maggie tells Vicki. Sam continues, Nothing but doors. Maggie tells Vicki, If you don’t want to stay it’ll be all right. Vicki replies, If it will bring your father any comfort, I’ll stay. Sam makes another effort: One door leads to the point of return--no return--no way out. Yes, that’s the riddle! Maggie realizes. Sam tells Vicki, I didn’t want to go. Listen, he says urgently, listen very carefully. The dream began with a knock--I was frightened--when I got up I opened the door--I saw--I saw-- But before he can finish his account, Sam’s strength gives out. He falls back, dead.

Meanwhile, Stokes goes to the Evans cottage and manages to convince Adam to go home with him. But unknown to either of them, Stokes's tie pin falls off. (He should have stuck with bow ties!)

FAREWELL, DAVID FORD....

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0517
« on: August 09, 2013, 06:58:46 PM »
I see your point, MT. What the writers are making Sam do just doesn't make any sense at all. I did prefer the original Sam Evans, who was much more philosophical. But maybe DF just wanted out of the show.

Sam wears his dark glasses even while he's in a coma and in his hospital bed. Maggie and Joe reconcile at his bedside.

Sam insists he has to tell Vicki the dream. So Maggie very sensibly calls Stokes (she asks for Collinwood 572), who tells her to keep Sam from telling Vicki the dream, then hurries the hospital. But Joe goes to Collinwood and gets Vicki.

At Collinwood, Cassandra brings a lighted candle to the drawing room window and commands Sam not to die until he has told Vicki the dream.

Unfortunately, Vicki arrives at the hospital before Stokes does. Sam begs her, Please let me tell you the dream so I can die in peace. She refuses to believe Sam is going to die, but seeing how he is suffering, she complies with his frantic request. All right, Mr. Evans, she says, tell me your dream.

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0516
« on: August 09, 2013, 06:50:08 PM »
Is Naomi's coffin empty? I haven't seen these in a long time....

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0515
« on: August 08, 2013, 10:35:22 PM »
Wow, Midnite, you are awesome!

I'm surprised that DC sprang for having not one but two actresses play the ghost of Josette, but maybe it was less expensive that way.

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0515
« on: August 08, 2013, 03:53:24 PM »
According to my long-ago notes, in this ep., the sobbing ghost--whom Julia both sees and hears--is played by Natalie Norwich, who played Josette's ghost once before, I think.

I don't think it will be a spoiler if I say here that in ep. 516, Josette's ghost is played by Florence Stanley. Julia hears Josette but doesn't see her in this reshoot.

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0516
« on: August 07, 2013, 09:17:05 PM »
The concluding scene from ep. 515 was reshot for today. Julia is now wearing her gray woolen coat. Trask makes his presence known as Willie gets to work freeing Barn. Trask warns that if they don't stop, someone will die. Julia isn't fazed (much) and cleverly sics Trask on Cassangelique. Once Trask takes  off, Willie quickly removes enough bricks to reveal the unconscious Barnabas, hands bound high above his head (which is sagging to the left again), but not looking very much the worse for wear. He even shows no growth of a beard. (I suppose that being walled up for a mere three days is no big deal for someone who was chained in a coffin for 171 years, i.e. 1796-1967.)

Meanwhile Cassangelique convinces Elizabeth that she's actually Naomi and plies her with sherry.

When Barn wakes up, his first sight is Julia's anxious face. Having been carefully brought up, he thanks her for saving his life--again--and he seems to mean it. Barn, Julia and Willie wish Trask success.

Cassangelique has taken "Naomi" to the mausoleum to show her her final resting place. Someone has covered Naomi's name plate with a sheet of paper that has started to come loose, but like the wonderful trouper she was, Joan Bennett leans up against it in agony as it it really were blank stone. Cassangelique taunts Elizabeth further, but somehow, Elizabeth summons enough will power to rush out of the mausoleum. Cassandra laughs triumphantly anyhow, even though her twentieth-century victims are proving to be not so cooperative as their eighteenth-century counterparts. Just as she's enjoying herself, though, Trask appears, brandishing a torch. He declares, Witch! You are the with I have been seeking, and I will destroy you in the only way you can be destroyed--by fire! Burn, witch, burn! He sets her alight (well not really--flames shoot up quite close to the camera) and laughs himself as her laughter turns to screams....

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0515
« on: August 06, 2013, 10:19:21 PM »
Maggie is distraught that her father is in a coma, but that doesn't keep her from noticing the same things that Elizabeth did: 1) that Willie knows Adam's name; and (2) that Adam certainly recognized Willie. Willie quickly improvises a story similar to the one he told Elizabeth: Adam is a vagrant who came around to the Old House a few times; Willie gave him food a few times and then decided not to give him any more, whereupon Adam got angry with him. Fortunately for Willie, Barnabas's name never came up in the recent altercation. However, Maggie isn't satisfied by these answers any more than Elizabeth was and expects better ones tomorrow.

Julia finally gets to see the ghost of Josette--but will Julia and Willie be in time to save Barnabas?

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Current Talk '13 II / Re: Today's Montage 1972
« on: August 06, 2013, 02:45:14 PM »
Patti, if you've never read Stoker's Dracula, it's well worth a look. Pretty scary stuff. I remember the Louis Jourdain Dracula (shown on PBS in the 1980s, I think) as being excellent too.

There is that part in 1897 where Barn is running around after dawn. He also needs a bit of earth from the Old House, although that is never mentioned before or after.

I've seen only one or two of the Price/Lee movies, but they were pretty strict about the no-daylight thing.