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« on: June 11, 2013, 06:19:13 PM »
I suppose that even with an intact, decent useable head, the face of the "creature" would still have to be stitched together out of bits, to prevent him from being recognized by grieving loved ones in the area. Unless it's
Jeff Clark of course. Barnabas as Jeff could just claim to be him. Except that even Vicki would be able to tell the difference just by talking to "Jeff". What are Lang and Barnabas thinking?
Lang: "I think that thinking about [the possibility of] failure is a contempible weakness." There's what's wrong with him, in one sentence. Both Lang and Barnabas are too wise in certain areas to imagine that they might just be clueless in other areas of life.
Roger Davis is okay in this episode. ** It's confusing whether Barnabas is actually aware that Lang's creature is made out of pieces of dead people. When Barnabas asked where it came from, Lang said "I created it." No explanation as to what that meant. It's a lie of course. Lang didn't make that skin, those nerves, those blood vessels. He just dug up used parts out of the ground. It's more of a salvage and repair operation, than creation.
A few lines later, Barnabas says Lang is making life from the dead, something like that, as if he knows. Somehow though, I think Barnabas would be more taken aback if he really did know. Yet Barnabas isn't stunned to hear from Lang that it wouldn't just look like Clark's face, it would BE his face. Barnabas seems to get satisfaction out of that.