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« on: May 29, 2013, 05:09:56 AM »
OMGoodness, I unexpectedly loved this episode! You've got to give it to Anita Bolster for pulling off the ‘look’, lol. She gives a ‘fun’ performance in this. I don’t even remember it from my first viewing, at least not being this substantial. So much has only been made of her infamous blooper that I took for granted that she couldn’t act, or at least that it was her ‘only’ line. I am enjoying the character and the performance immensely – so this is a really nice surprise for me. Love, love, love her incantation scene re: the flame to bring Barnabas back to Collinwood and everything thereafter. This feels so out of the ordinary and is so interesting/engrossing to me. Her voice is off-the-charts fabulous.
Barrett is marvelous playing the ‘mad’ Millicent and Edmonds does a wonderful job as a remorseful Joshua. I guess it's a bit late in the game to ask, but does anyone think Joshua’s circumstances changed him or do you think he was always capable of deep sympathy. Great scene.
Random thought: Barnabas finally gets an attractive floozy and he gets summoned away. The editing is sometimes horrible in this episode.