KLS in epic battle with a pesky fly!  I think she did quite well under the circumstances.

I wonder...if Julia's body was indestructible, were the clothes she arrived in indestructibe as well?

That last scene is really kind of creepy.

Nowing next to nothing about women's garments in the present, let alone the past,  I was still surprised to hear Petofi mention Julia's shockingly short skirt.  I was under the impression that women of that time only wore dresses.  Would the bottom half still have been called a skirt?

Is the appearance by Thayer David in this episode the shortest in the history of DS (except maybe for Jenny's ghost)?

A smug, know-it-all moralist like Edward would not be moved by anything Barnabas might say in his defense.  Such people have little regard for WHY a person might be a certain way; they're just convinced THEY would never be such a way so no one else should be either.

I really love the letter-across-time plot device, one of my favorites in all of DS.  In fact, I'd been waiting weeks for it to finally arrive (the device, not the letter, of course).   

It's always nice to see the old characters - kind of like going home again.

I find it a trifle odd that Barnabas says he wishes he could get back into the good graces of the family and that doing so would make his job so much easier.   Yet, who's left that would really care about his being a vampire?  Judith is away at a sanitarium, Edward thinks he's a butler, Charity fancies herself a dance hall performer, Jamison is possessed by the spirit of David Collins, and Quentin and Beth are already allies of Barnabas and would welcome him in with open arms.  That leaves only the oily Reverend Trask and I hardly think he poses much of a threat to Barnabas (maybe it's little blabbermouth Nora he's really concerned about  ).

I sometimes wonder why Barnabas doesn't seem more impressed by what he finds in 1967.  I realize he's an "old-fashioned" kind of guy who doesn't even allow electricity or phones into the Old House, but I can't imagine anyone in his situation not marveling at least to some extent over how far the human race had come technologically since he last saw it.  Telephones, electric lights, cars, planes, modern medicine, short skirts!  None of this seems to make much of an impression on him.   Electric lights, especially, would seem a true boon to someone forced to live his life entirely at night.

Of course, we don't know his reaction to television, since, as far as we can tell, there wasn't a TV set within a hundred miles of Collinwood. 

Apparently, Entertainment Weekly recently came out with a list of the 20 greatest vampires in movies and TV.  Conspicuous by his absence was one Barnabas Collins of DS fame.

Let me quote the reaction to that grievous miscarriage of justice (Aug. 21/28, '09 edition):

Some readers hammered a stake through our list, citing our failure to mention Dracula's Frank Langella, Buffy's Spike and especially Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins ("You'd better be stringing garlic around your windows for this exclusion," Cyndi Migon warned us).

You go Cyndi!