Question:

Does anyone else hear the background noise on episode 1172? If you listen closely, in the teaser, you can hear Trask's line well before he says them. I wonder why this is? Is it an error in the DVD, or is it because there was a tape of the audio playing in the background?

Can someone else verify this?

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The 1795 trial wasn't quite as preposterous as the one in 18*0. I mean, the same things basically happened, with the real witch pinning the blame on someone else, but in 18*0, another 45 years into the future from 1795, and nearly 200 years from the original witch trials, this should've been completely discounted. They definitely should've known better. It would've been a helluva lot more interesting if they had've made some kind of slavery storyline, since this was around the time when the initial stirring of emancipation was going around.

Vicki was incrediably stupid during this time period, as Adamsgirl pointed out, telling young Daniel and Sarah about airplanes and telephones. Not to mention that she admitted to being from the future, just like Adamsgirl said. All in all, Vicki was 60% of the stupidity running around during this time.

And, truth be told, it's not all that unthinkable that maybe those accusing Vicki may have thought that she didn't give a hoot damn about being found out, because, she was a witch, and everyone feared her. So maybe her accusers thought that she didn't care if she was found out, because they would just pop up dead anyway.

Actually, look what happened

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Abigail and Trask, her two BIGGEST accusors, DID die, even though it wasn't by Vicki's hand.

Happy Birthday, MT! I always enjoy your posts. You always come up with something interesting to say!

Yes! I had completely forgotten about that big threat of Paul Stoddard's ghost coming back and killing Jeb. So that really DOES explain it. Vicky got offed because Dennis Patrick got another acting gig! Oh the horrors!

Thanks Lori!

And you know what? That's quite an idea about Sarah knowing who she really was, but coming back in another body. There are some beliefs out there that a spirit can choose to reincarnate into another life anytime it pleases. The only reason that we don't remember our past lives, if we truly did have them, is because the transition from the higher plane to this plane is somewhat difficult, so we generally forget. But I'm sure that if Sarah were a strong enough entity, and I think she was, that she could make herself remember, or maybe do a past life regression through hypnosis to remember what she reincarnated for in the first place.

She could choose, for example, to be reincarnated and born on earth in, say, 1882, then show up in 1897 as a 15 year old, full well knowing that she's there to stop Barnabas from doing anything wrong.

Personally, I think to say that Sarah has some form of precognition really solves the entire thing rather well. I mean, I really can't accept that she didn't know what was going to happen as a result of her intervention in 1967, because otherwise, she wouldn't have done it. Of course she hoped that her intervening would save some lives, but I think ultimately she knew it would lead to more than that. She knew that it would lead Barnabas down the correct path he needed to go down, and ultimately lead him to be a better person. Depending on how you define precognition, it could swing one way or the other. If you define it loosely, by which I mean she knew she would've been saving some lives, then YES, she DID have precognition. If you define it as knowing that an event is definitely going to happen, no matter what you do, then NO, she probably DIDN'T have precognition.

I'm still unsure, myself, of whether or not Sarah knew that Barnabas would be doing all that time-traveling and reaking all the havoc he did in certain time periods.

And as far as her appearing in 1897, sure she could've watched unseen, making sure that Barnabas didn't do anything too horrible. I think it would've been a nice touch for the writers to add in the sound of her flute playing just after Barnabas had killed Carl, or committed some other such wrong doing in 1897. That would've been something simple enough to call back the memory of Sarah for most viewers and say "Hey, I'm still here, and I"m still watching, so be good or it's coal in your stocking."

Not to mention that with the writers preoccupation of reincarnation through the series, they could've had Sharon Smith come back and play a teenage girl who came to live at Collinwood, or maybe someone who befriends Jamison, or maybe even as Kitty Soams' daughter or niece or cousin, and then instead of having Kitty be the reincarnation of Josette, they could've had Sharon's new character be the reincarnation of Sarah. I think that would've been even more gripping if the Leviathans had've taken Sarah's reincarnated self hostage instead of Josette, because Josette was constantly in danger, whereas Sarah was only in danger once in 1795.

I think over the years the way we dress has been "dumbed down" so to speak. I mean, when I'm at home, on my days off, if I'm just going to be lazy, I don't change out of my bed clothes sometimes. If I'm going outside to do something, I wear a old t-shirt and some shorts. But if I do go out somewhere, like to the store, I usually make sure my shorts have no holes in them, or I wear jeans, and a nicer, newer t-shirt. There was a point when I was younger where I didn't give a hoot if I was caught dead in my underwear in the store, but now I'm more concerned about my appearance.

Back in the day (not my day, either ), I'd expect that most wouldn't be caught dead going out without a casual suit on and some type of dress for the women.