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1951
Current Talk '12 I / Re: 1969 DS-themed 45 rpm "The Curse Goes On"
« on: May 29, 2012, 07:06:44 PM »
Hilarious! "Good" is not the word for either of these--thanks for the link!

1952
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0220
« on: May 29, 2012, 05:51:09 PM »
I agree, Janet. However evil Jason is and Willie was, it's truly sad to watch Willie's last link to normal human contact slip inexorably away. He's almost bent double as he follows Barn into the Old House. And when the gloating Barn looks around the Old House, it's enough to make me want to wipe that smug grin right off his face--that is, if I dared.   [ghost_shocked]

1953
Wait, isn't The Shoes of the Fisherman about a pope?  [ghost_wink]

1954
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0217
« on: May 28, 2012, 01:34:43 PM »
I'm sure Barnabas had Willie buy the car. And I'll bet it isn't some old heap, either.

1955
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0219
« on: May 27, 2012, 12:26:24 AM »
WELCOME, DR. DAVE WOODARD (NO. 1)!!! In this first incarnation, he's played by Richard Woods and is tall and rather austere. What happened to kindly old Dr. Reeves, who treated Roger's injuries in the bleeder valve story?

The phone directory for Collinwood is surprisingly thick--unless all of Maine had a single phone book back then.

1956
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0218
« on: May 27, 2012, 12:21:58 AM »
Interesting thought about Barnabas and how carefully he controls his expression as he navigates this new territory, "adrift in a sea of familiar faces," as it were.

What fun to see an absorbing episode featuring four middle-aged people, with no bright young things in sight.

Yes! That's one of my favorite things about the show!

1957
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0216
« on: May 26, 2012, 06:15:39 PM »
True, I agree she's in serious denial here--but then again, it would be pretty hard to admit to yourself that you killed a man, however justified you thought you were. So far, she seems to have learned desperation and maybe agoraphobia as well.

1958
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0216
« on: May 25, 2012, 06:48:19 PM »
Good point about Elizabeth, Lydia. But I think her real intention is strenuously protecting Carolyn. Who knows what would have happened to baby Carolyn if Elizabeth had been arrested--foster care, an orphanage, abuse, who knows.

1959
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0218
« on: May 25, 2012, 02:37:43 PM »
Janet, I think your wish may be granted. This ep. might be the last time we see Barnabas wearing a hat.

Roger's study seems to have migrated back to somewhere under the stairs.

When Elizabeth was shocked at Roger's casual dismissal of the idea of Barn paying rent, maybe it was because Roger mentioned it in the first place!  [ghost_grin]

Good point about Barn knowing only what Willie has told him. But I can't imagine that in HoDS Willie told Barn everything at the BW. I'm sure Barn beat the living hell out of him for daring to desecrate his family's mausoleum, and I can't see that happening at the BW.

Fun scene with Jason and Barn. Barn can't help boasting about how the "original" Barnabas outlived all his enemies. Jason asks Barn some leading questions about whether his ancestor was buried with his jewelry. "Let's just say that I do not like to see _crime_ encouraged, Jason explains blandly.  [ghost_grin] Barnabas assures him that the jewelry was disposed of when the "original" Barnabas was buried in England. Barnabas then leaves, thinking he has evaded Jason’s questions successfully--but Jason now knows that whatever Willie found in the mausoleum, it wasn’t jewels.

1960
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0215
« on: May 24, 2012, 06:50:04 PM »
Good question, Lydia! I always thought this episode took place at night, after everyone (except Jason, of course) finished work for the day. Maybe Willie has already performed his goulish task for the evening and therefore is at liberty. If--as I think it is--this is the first time he's been to the BW since opening the coffin, he is probably desparate for some kind of human contact in town. Also, Barnabas may have lengthened his leash a bit to prepare the good people of Collinsport and those at Collinwood for the fact that Willie isn't leaving after all and is now working for him (B.C.).

1961
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0217
« on: May 24, 2012, 12:21:03 AM »
 [ghost_grin]

1962
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0217
« on: May 23, 2012, 09:39:04 PM »
Jason observes that the skin on Willie's arm has "an odd gray tint, almost as if it were drained of blood." Evidently no one at Collinwood knows that blood circulates throughout the body.  [ghost_tongue2] But Jason does seem genuinely concerned about his scamming partner.

Vicki and Carolyn are in the foyer, standing under the portrait of Barnabas as Carolyn very perceptively describes the change in Willie: "It's almost as if he isn't Willie anymore. It's almost as if he's become a different person--an entirely different person. He's quiet--almost too quiet. He acts as though he's recovering from a terrible beating and he doesn't want to hurt anyone or to be hurt himself." It's too bad that her main business in life seems to be preparing for dates.

More great stuff from JK as Willie lies in bed pleading, Don't let it get dark again. Don't let it happen again. I'm scared. I'm scared.

Later, he arrives at the mausoleum, where the heartbeats that only he can hear have summoned him. He hesitates a long moment, then bows his head in despair. Then he pulls the ring in the lion's mouth.

1963
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0214
« on: May 23, 2012, 03:58:40 PM »
Maybe it's just as well that Mrs. Johnson burned them!  [ghost_wink]

1964
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0214
« on: May 23, 2012, 12:05:02 AM »
For anyone who's interested, here's a link to a recipe for a New England Boiled Dinner.

1965
Current Talk '12 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0216
« on: May 22, 2012, 05:02:00 PM »
Great work by JK. "I said I was sorry. I said I was sorry," he tells some unknown entity.

Those little armpit pockets were very popular once upon a time.