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« on: March 25, 2014, 05:39:21 PM »
People die so fast and conveniently on DS. Natalie's mouth is covered for perhaps eight seconds? Five? And she's gone. The doings at the mausoleum are a mess of nicely tragic and absurd moments, mistakes, and mis-communication. I'm not sure TV showed dead people with their eyes wide open yet, outside of DS. Ben and Natalie are reminiscent of Matthew with Vicki. It's disturbing, Ben killing Natalie. That really leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Welcome back Willie, in 1969. Maybe Ben won't get to have that quiet life in Collinsport after all. Barnabas thinks he can easily avoid being caught. Maybe, but DS is strangely (interestingly) casual about good guys killing sometimes. For all we know, maybe this changing of the past led to the altered history of Ben being still alive and back at Collinwood in 1840. How I have no clue.
Julia tries Barnabas's trick of just spontaneously calling out to the wind, and having supernatural stuff just happen, for him. Doesn't work. She doesn't speak to 1796, big surprise... There's no Peter ghost around anymore to help Julia as he did Barnabas.
We get a nice moment of Ben falling apart in desparate vulnerability, saying he had to have Barnabas free, so he could help Ben figure out what to do. That seemed human and real.
Julia has an alligator broach... Willie's sort-of crazy idea doesn't work, not yet. The coffin's still empty. It's not such a crazy idea really, except it should have gone like this: Barnabas is chained in 1796, then time passes in the usual way, 1967 Willie lets Barnabas out, Willie is confused as Ben was, at Barnabas's strange talk about the future. Unfortunately, Barn would then have to act out all his 1967-68 actions in a similar way, up until leaving for 1796 again, which would be very weird, difficult, and criminal. He'd have to terrorize Maggie again etc.. Unless he cares not a whit about changing 20th century history. What a mess, if he doesn't. Okay none of that works as plot, but at least it would make a little sense, unlike what's to come.
They cut to a close-up of Naomi's still-unchanged headstone saying she died in 1821. ???? Why?
Willie's crazy idea happens for real. Barn IS now in the coffin, in 1969. Chains materialize around Barnabas's coffin. Why? He didn't pass through time in the normal way, instead he was transported from 1796 to 1969... but HOW? A Gallifreyan coffin? Willie sees Josette's ghost! Welcome back! Barnabas turns green in his coffin, surprised that he needs oxygen. End. Copyright 1969 again.