Sometimes I'll write something in WordPerfect and then paste it here.  If I have the "curly" quotes and apostrophes on, when it's posted here it's filled with a bunch of numbers and symbols instead of those marks.  That just happened.  I immediately edited the post and fixed all of those marks, but then I discovered that the quotes around "parents" in the title were also transformed, and apparently I can't edit the title!

So, Midnite or MB, if you're able to edit other people's titles, I'd appreciate it if you could fix that!!

SPOILER FOR 1970 PT

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There was a strong suggestion in one episode that Cyrus - as John Yeager - had raped Buffie.

The treatment of Adam always amazes me.  It would seem that just a little bit of common sense should indicate to anyone that he's like a newborn, knows nothing, yet has this enormous size and strength.  Clearly they have to treat him carefully, gently, etc.  Julia says all the right things to Willie about how they have to gain his trust, since they've previously hurt him, and then they can start to teach  him.  But no one tries to actually put that into practice!  They shut him up and force Willie to be with him while they go off and do who knows what!

I did find it rather funny, though, when Julia apologized to Barnabas that it was necessary to put him in restraints.  It was Barnabas who wanted to kill him and Julia who prevented it!!

I'm not familiar with the original Goethe, but in Gounod's opera "Faust" there is a scene where Mephistopheles has provided a basket of jewels for Faust to leave for Marguerite.  She finds them and has a marvelous "Jewel Song" as she tries them on and admires herself.  Every time I see Maggie with the earrings, I think of that!

Julia with Mrs. Johnson is rather unbelievable, too.  She knew the full implications of the Dream Curse and had the additional motivation of wanting to protect Barnabas from it's ultimate conclusion.  Yet she couldn't stop herself from telling Mrs. Johnson.  Then, she can rather calmly tell Mrs. Johnson - You mustn't tell David!!  She, of all people, should appreciate what Mrs. Johnson is going through!!!!

When Willie was first forced to stay with Adam, my initial thought was, "I bet he'd rather be back at Windcliff!"  I had forgotten that he later actually said it!  My goodness!!  For Julia to say that if he went back, it would have to be forever!!!!

Well, my initial guess was that Midnite and MB would be the "Spirits" - but since MB indicated that someone else left a clue in a post, I'm totally stumped!!

Midnite, that's wonderful!!

Welcome, Hooked! Glad to have you with us.  If you've been reading for months, then presumably you've discovered that there's quite a group of Grayson fans!!

How did Julia learn about the dreams?  Jeff told Lang that Maggie had had it, but that his went a step further.  Then Lang experienced the 3rd step.  I was expecting him to mention all of that to Julia, but he didn't.  He just described the dream, as though it were an isolated dream.  It was only when Julia told Barnabas about a dream curse that he said that Angelique had told him that in the dream.

I remembered that she knew about the curse and that it was important not to tell Mrs. Johnson, and how hard she tries not to do it.  But, how was she aware of this string of dreamers, etc. at the beginning of today's episode?