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« on: November 20, 2013, 08:01:15 PM »
I noticed that about the afghan too, DL! Quoting my notes: "Carolyn and the black afghan disappear!" I was going to add, dum dum DUM!
This is a good one, despite all the Barnabas/Julia scenes continuing to be sloppy and bad and awkward. I wonder if they're forgetting good lines and winging it clumsily because they can't commit to this storyline, or if the lines really were bad on paper. I've been thinking today that there are enough good moments and good acting and writing, in spurts, that if everyone had just tried harder, and committed, this storyline could have been made to work.
Sci-fi sounds during the Experiment in the redo.... the 60 second countdown is silly. Then...... it fails, Carolyn is carried upstairs to a bed, and while Adam is there....... "!!!" is what I wrote in the notes. I'm hit over the head with this amazingly abstract and indescribable sequence of images and cryptic utterances from Carolyn! This was actually very imaginative and daring. It seems to be the writer's ruminations on what a disturbing and awful process having life drained from you must be, and how it was unsurvivable, at least for her. It started with an image of "Eve", and I wondered if Carolyn was somehow sharing experience with a slightly, unsuccessfully reviving Eve, feeling what Eve felt for a few moments. The rest... it seems to reach beyond anything literally understandable or describable. Good going, DS.
What were Carolyn's last words? I couldn't make them out. Farewell, Carolyn Stoddard.
Why doesn't Adam begin his rampage by killing Julia and Barnabas? Maybe because he really isn't murderous.
Jonathan Frid gathers himself together when presented with a good speech... and we hear what just might be Barnabas's first moment of utter moral outrage since 1795. He delivers this very well, with practically explosive indignation. It's well written. So how many other similarly good lines in this episode did we lose because they weren't delivered?