I believe you're confusing the timeline, Vlad. Vicki purchased the portrait in April '68 - but the capture I've posted is from July '68, taken from an episode during Cassandra's swan song.

I didn't see that you had explained this using the new "Spoiler" invisible writing feature.

You mean that wasn't a real flower??!!

The line that got me was Chris Jennings (part-time werewolf), dismissing Sabrina's offering of the flower to him -- "that's just a legend!"

Right.  Werewolves, no problem.  Widely accepted scientific fact.  But ... a flower called the "moon poppy" that might be a cure for lycanthropy?  How could anyone believe anything so silly?!?

 

A while ago there was a discussion -- I think I started it -- about Professor Timothy Eliot Stokes' living quarters.

I was trying to figure out if Stokes lived in an apartment and I think my conclusion was that he did; others disagreed, believing it to be a house.

In one of yesterday's episodes, in talking about her father's death, Carolyn referred to Professor Stokes' "flat."

Julia Hoffman also used the same designation in a recent opening voice over.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Also, it's odd that they would use a British term, isn't it?  Or do they call apartments "flats" in New England?

Too bad we're not in the early part of The Summer of 1970 - segue into - 1840 tonight ... there's a full eclipse of the moon which will happen in just three more hours!

And it's supposed to be blood red!

Now that you mention it, that would have been a nice pairing (i.e., Tony Peterson and Carolyn Stoddard).  As would have been the one between Victoria Winters and whatever that young lawyer's name was in the first storyline ... another lawyer who dropped from sight -- I think both characters could have added to the continuing DS saga.

Actually, the Tony Peterson role is the only DS role of Jerry Lacy's that I liked (I found his Trasks far too obvious and overdone)!

his initial meeting with her when he says"i'll help you forget about your father"
Ick what a gross pick up line! what a jerk!

It occurred to me that the DS writers might have been inspired by "Richard III" here ... Shakespeare at his most "theatrical" (read "melodramatic").

I'm late posting some thoughts I had about recent episodes -- this is my first day out my sickbed ... (I finally got whatever everyone else on this board seemed to have multiple times during the winter ...  )

I really, really like the way the portrait of Quentin was interwoven into this storyline, and the Quentin and Amanda in the Underworld sequence is one of the most memorable of DS, in my opinion ... probably because I've always loved Greek mythology ...  But I'm also fascinated with the way DS portrayed Death's Waiting Room ... I wonder if the idea of a luxury hotel lobby was original with the DS writers, or if it might have been lifted from some old movie? ...

The series of traps in the underworld was OK considering the budget, but I think it would have been more effective if they had only shown the spider's shadow, as they did at first, instead of going all the way with the "horror" of the hairy thing!

Incidentally, none of the characters ever seems to have realized that it was Barnabas who was responsible for Quentin's loss of memory, not the accident!  Interesting that everyone seemed to remain in the dark about that, and surprising that Julia didn't catch on ...

Something I found confusing was the way the portrait of Olivia Corey was revealed when the second painting was sponged away using solvents, but with the Quentin/New South Wales painting(s), they "lifted off" the New South Wales landscape ... apparently this was painted on a separate canvas that had been stretched over Quentin's portrait's canvas ... thought that might have been explained a little better ...

I've always been fascinated with Quentin's portrait (i.e., since these episodes last ran) and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" themes  ...  and found it interesting that the uncredited DS artist who created the portrait of the aged Quentin basically duplicated the famous Dorian Gray portrait by Ivan Albright that hangs in some museum in Chicago (have any Chicagoans out there ever seen this?).

Too bad DS never saw fit to give the portrait artists credit ... they certainly gave "the bat" enough credit, and I would think that the portraits of Barnabas, Angelique, and Quentin took at least as much time and skill to create ...

Wasn't it funny that the old art professor didn't provide some kind of warning in advance about what the portrait of Quentin Collins showed?  It must have been somewhat of a surprise even to him when he unveiled it ...

The deeper meaning of this sequence of Quentin's portrait, showing the ravages of "sin" (I think that was the word they used) and time made me ponder:  What would a portrait of me look like if it showed all of my transgressions?    (Though I'm sure the halo around my head is only somewhat faded and tarnished  )

Look closely - his own hair has been "spray painted" yellow. They did the same thing with Sabrina's hair - it is spray painted gray. There are temporary hair-color sprays (or were, at that time) that wash out. They look terrible and are chiefly used on the stage. You can see it clearly in the close-ups.

Very observant and discriminating, Dr. Lang!  Now, where were you when that discussion about Count Petofi's nose was going on? 

Deb -- I think those spray hair dyes have been around for a long time!

 

Please note that my post was meant to respond immediately to the earlier post Castlebee made, which I thought was the most recent post on the board --  I wasn't aware that there was nearly a full second page of commentary that followed hers, which I hadn't read.