I noticed that Jeremiah seems to be doing all the resisting against Josette, while she seems to simply give in to her feelings. Perhaps the spell effects women differently than men.

Or perhaps the fact that Josette felt it before Jeremiah did makes the difference.  After all, love is a completely subjective thing, and although I think that at first, as I said the other day, Josette believed she was losing her mind, later, when the feeling for Jeremiah persisted, surely she wondered if she was in fact falling out of love with Barnabas and into love with Jeremiah – in which case it would have been cruel to Barnabas to pretend otherwise.

As I understand it, Americans shifted to drinking coffee because tea had become associated with the British.    The Boston Tea Party had an impact that went far beyond the tax issue, eventually.

They may have shifted because of the British associations, but I'm betting they stuck with coffee because of the caffeine, and told themselves it was because of the principle.  In that case, this episode was historically correct – but it was still ostentatiously historically correct.

Wonder what the twins are doing today?

Since we haven't seen them around, I assume they're at Windcliff.

They've fixed the portrait problem in Josette's room.  There is now a woman in a dark dress over the mantel.  I checked the episode from last week to make sure that Josette's portrait had been there, and it was.  So I suppose that last week they realized at the last minute that Josette's portrait shouldn't be there, but they didn't have time to find a substitute.

lori54 said the other day that Jeremiah's bedroom was Josette's bedroom with a few changes, and I certainly see the resemblance now that I look, but since both bedrooms were used in the same episode, they have to be different sets.  Perhaps Sy Tomashoff was so harried with creating a zillion new rooms for 1795 that he did some xeroxing.

I liked the pink-and-white striped jacket on Josette's outfit - so cheerful!

The remark about Joshua disliking tea irked me.  It was ostentatiously "we're living history now," and I doubt that it reflected reality.  The problem twenty years before had not been with the tea; it had been with the illegal tax (or anyway, the colonials claimed it was an illegal tax) on the tea.  And ships carry tea, so I think that, once the tax was eliminated, Joshua would be all for promoting the tea trade.  Hmm...when Josette was putting sugar into Naomi's tea, was she thinking of the sugar cane grown on her father's plantation, and of the slaves who died in the process?  Somehow I doubt it.

I'm so glad you're posting again, Sally!  I was wondering if you had given up on the Watching Project.

a long line of doctors who were killed when they knew too much!

What a picture you've created in my mind!  Do they take a number?  "You must wait your turn to be killed!"

Natalie and Andre were quite upset upon finally realizing that the Collins family weren't ever going to provide their guests with rubber duckies and that it was entirely up to them to provide them for themselves!!

why does the almighty god of the festival have to bless this idea? the cruise can be organized independently and the 2 stars can be contacted through their websites. if the stars want to attend they will decide on their own.

Yes, indeed!  I'd go on a Dark Shadows cruise to Martinique whether or not any of the stars came along.  I'm envisioning a room showing Dark Shadows episodes 24/7 (with a 2am break for House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows), another room with people playing Dark Shadows Charades, and Dark Shadows Shuffleboard out on the deck.  I'm not sure how you play shuffleboard, but I think it involves a hoelike implements, disks, and a grid.   We could have squares on the grid marked "phoenix" and so on, and when your disk hits "phoenix" you have to torch yourself.

And what better way to see Martinique than with a bunch of fellow Dark Shadows fans?  Are there any old mansions left there to tour?  "This was Josette's room, this was Natalie's room, and this was where Barnabas met secretly with Angelique..."

I enjoyed David Ford's performance as Andre Dupres today.  He was so dynamic!  So unlike Sam Evans!

I just don't have the right attitude towards the Tarot cards.  When Natalie practically had the vapors after seeing the lover card upside down, I thought to myself: "What a pity you didn't turn the deck around before you dealt it!"

The terrace outside the Old House must be just a remake of the terrace at Collinwood, but I like it better than the Collinwood terrace.  I like the arch in the brickwork (I'm a sucker for arches), and the greenery you could see through the arch, and the birds chirping.  Do we ever see the Collinwood terrace by daylight?  I wish Barnabas could have spent some moonlit nights out on the Old House terrace brooding in 1967, but of course that would be impossible if the Old House terrace was created out of the new house terrace.

I realized for the first time today that it was Dorrie Kavanaugh, a.k.a Phyllis Wick, whom Jeremiah kissed in Naomi's dream.  That's a favorite dream of mine; it's just so weird. Why on earth should the lady's arm come off?  It's just as crazy as what happens in dreams in real life.