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Current Talk '16 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #1039
« on: February 10, 2016, 11:24:37 PM »Also, this ep. has eight (count ’em!) characters, a record for Dark Shadows and roughly analogous to a crowd scene in one of those Italian sandal epics.
LOL, DL. "Sandal epic", I'll have to remember that.
It's certainly true that often we're better off not seeing all the stuff we want to see. 1897 involves tons of backstory squeezed into this or that offhand line of dialogue. We've already "seen it" in our imaginations; seeing it onscreen would be redundant and boring.
See how DS gets us thinking! Remember, waking up Roxanne thwarts Angelique just as well as killing Roxanne. Granted, they can't do it instantaneously, as they could have slaughtered her instantaneously. The time gap involves risks, and resulted in Q's arrest. But since they know she might wake up, since keeping her under is a problem for Stokes, it makes her a person with a life, not just a breathing cadaver. Sorry if I'm going all Star Trek on you all right now...!
The delay cost Bruno his life. I'm not weeping tears over that... We can't help but feel for Julia though. Skippy just goes on and on about his romantic fantasies, with her standing right there. No wonder that in the heat of the moment, Julia comes down on him for switching plans based on looks. She's a doctor, though, for Chissakes...