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Current Talk '14 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0642
« on: February 24, 2014, 01:53:07 AM »
Well, the way I see it is [spoiler]the way the original narrative played out in 1968-69, it was indeed Quentin's skeleton that was found in his old room. I think that when Beth's ghost tells Julia the events of the night when Quentin died, he did wind up making his way back into his bedroom. Presumably Judith ordered it bricked up and closed the West Wing permanently to avoid any whisper of scandal, leaving word that Quentin had left town again for another of his "sojourns." The idea of a skeleton in a forgotten room might have been a steal from the William Faulkner story, "A Rose for Emily"--an amazingly creepy tale. Anyhow, the idea of Judith's revenge on Trask ending the way it did seems to have emerged from the question, "Then just whose skeleton did the kids find in the West Wing?" Had Count Petofi's plan succeeded, it's conceivable that at one point, the "evil ghost" might have had the appearance of Quentin but actually been the spirit of Petofi. What really doesn't make sense is that after Barnabas and Julia return, everyone in the family still retains the memory of Quentin's haunting, which technically never happened in the revised timeline. I think Warren Oddson tried to come up with some bizarre theory to "explain" this--I've just come to accept that it's "more DS weirdness at work.[/spoiler]
But then,the fascination of this show is that each fan can have her or his own interpretation of what happens onscreen and it's open ended enough that any way you have of looking at certain things can be deemed valid.
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But then,the fascination of this show is that each fan can have her or his own interpretation of what happens onscreen and it's open ended enough that any way you have of looking at certain things can be deemed valid.
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