I still can't get over just how atmosphereic the show is during these episodes. I mean, talk about great lighting, writing, set design, acting, directing, producing et all! The show really took a downturn when it started to hit its stride in terms of production values. The camera work is infinitely better than the later days, where everything seemed to be rushed.

I would also tend to agree that when Barnabas "vanished" into PT, his hold over Sabrina vanished. Of course, she could've always left to go look for Barnabas, and Chris and Amy went along for the ride for whatever reason.

The power a vampire has over their victim, in the DS world anyway, I think has a lot to do with what the vampires intentions are for the victim. If the vamp bites the vic because they need a servant, than the vic will be practically a slave to the vamp's will--just like Willie was at first. If the vamp just needs a quick bite to eat, then the vic will have some loyalty to the vamp, but will not throw themselves in front of the train to get to the vamp, unless, of course, the vamp is summoning their victim. And if the vamp bites the vic in order to keep them quiet and place them under control to prevent them from spoiling some secret, then its a mix of the two.

I think it was HEAVILY implied that Gregory Trask was a child molestor, but the only reason they couldn't practically show it was because of the time it was shown in. For some reason this topic dredges up faint memories of some other molestation themed thing---

AND OMG MY BRAIN IS WORKING

The same thing was implied when (SPOILER):


We see Longworth in 1970PT, and his oogling over Maggie when he captures her. It practically screams rape.

It wasn't until Angelique encountered Julia in 1840 that the perfect opportunity presented itself to harm her. And also, that Angelique was much more closely related to the Angelique of 1795/96 who lashed out at everyone around her. For the most part, the Angelique of 1897 and Leviathans had exhibited a much more mature persona.

GASP! Are you saying, that after nearly 400 years, that Angelique was mature enough to live in the world freely?!

While it's true that Angelique leaving Julia to die in that little room, then to be turned into a vampire is HORRIBLE, that is perhaps the worst thing that she did to Julia. She also inflicted the Dream Curse on her in present time, as Cassandra, but that's not so horrible. Tell someone and you're done!

BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCALE YOU HAVE

Naomi's Death.

Sarah's Death.

Josette's Death.

Jeremiah betraying Barnabas.

Maggie Evans being tormented because Barn fancied her.

The entire present day family suffering from the Dream Curse.

Anglique framing Vicki for being a witch, because A) it was convenient, and B) because Barnabas was focusing on getting her found not guilty.

And I'm sure I missed many more.


My original comment was not to imply that Angelique never did anything to Julia, but, given that Julia bitch slapped her, and confronted her several times, and was always hanging on Barnabas like a rag doll, and was always helping Barnabas thwart Angelique's latest plan, and was constantly throwing her hands up and screaming "Oh-oh Bar-na-bas Nooooooooooo!!!!!!! Uh-uh-uh-uh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", Angelique should've done MORE to her, since Julia obviously was smitten.

Obviously all the Trasks were flawed in their own ways. They each thought they were doing something that was "Gods" work.

Rev. Trask was hunting witches, and it was his objective to find them guilty no matter what it took, because that is what "God" wanted him to do. There was no place for witches in the world, so they had to be found out and hanged.

Greg Trask was doing "Gods" work in educating the children of the village to love and respect their elders, as well as respecting "God". He could rationalize that his deeds were committed for the good of the children because people like Minerva, with her constant probing, were hindering him from doing his job of educating the village. And Greg's forcing Judith to marry him could be seen as his wish to get hold of the most powerful name in the town, so that he could open up his school once again, and continue preaching "Gods" word to everyone.

Lamar, however, was putting people to rest. No matter their sins throughout life, he would bury there honorably, just as "God" would have wanted. Lamar wanted to pin the witchcraft of the town on Quentin because he was influenced by Gerudah (Gerard/Judah), and he believed that ridding the town of the witchcraft would prevent his dead corpse's from rising as zombie's and killing him.

Okay, so the last one is a bit of the stretch, but I'm hazy on the details of what all Lamar did.

My basic point is that they all believed themselves to be good people, who could rationalize what they were doing as being the work of their "God", whoever that may or may not have been. It's quite possible that they were all very much insane, hearing "God's" voice in their head from time to time. I agree with Magnus Trask that the Trask's attempted to rationalize their actions in their mind, but do I think they were evil? Hmm, not necessarily. I think it was more that they were lead down the wrong path initially, and found it hard to deviate from that path because they so devoutly believed in what they were doing. Most, if not all, of the acts they committed were hateful and wrong, and yea, they were pretty bad, but I think that evil is a term that is heavily over used in the place of "bad". So defining them as one or the other (good v. evil) is a tough call.

Didn't they show this Darkness at Blaisedon movie at last years fest, and the year before that?