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« on: February 24, 2013, 11:24:41 PM »
Do it Trask!! Trask's so cool. I wouldn't have thought the guy who played Tony Peterson had it in 'im. I love the ranting villains with egos that can't be contained, thrusting their giant will all over the place... who also manage to stay just barely on the believable side of going over the top. "Magnus Trask" is a variation on "Magnus Greel", a ranting classic Dr Who villain. I had to combine the two!
I wondered about that fire and Lara... she seemed awfully close and it seemed big. My big first observation.... casting a spell by making a house of cards! It seemed ridiculously contrived. And apparently not even an Evil House of Tarot Cards, but regular cards? Unsure as to what "face cards" means, I haven't played card games much. Anyway, it seemed as supernaturally legit to me as playing with evil Tinkertoys, but then again it referred to the house and setting a fire in it.....
Nice of Ang to include a compliment on Victoria's beauty in her curse. Heart of gold, that one. No-Name Trask... divining rods just find water, don't they? Was this some witch-burning logic having to do with the cure of fire, and having to find the opposite of the cleansing fire, which would be water, a.k.a. the one who can't take fire, the witch? So witches are made of water?
My board motto (or whatever you call the saying under the avatar) is uttered! Twice!
For years, every time I've viewed #400, I've longed to film the following as a visual joke: No-First-Name rants and bellows, waves arms, draws a circle with "VW" inside it... come out witch!!!! ... and then, somewhow, a Volkswagen Beetle drives out the front door of the Old House. Squashing Trask, let's say, but not before a look of total, entertaining apoplexy comes over his face. So apparently the VW was a witch... my mother the witch car?
"The dust now knows your name, and the earth shall proclaim it to the sky! Come forth to this threshhold! Cross from darkness into the light, before the fires of goodness drive you forth in terror and fear!!" Had to quote that. Later, we also get "consuming fires of goodness"! He certainly makes goodness sound scary as hell. I don't blame people for becoming witches. Angelique was probably traumatized by exposure to goodness as an infant, and it scarred her so badly she turned to evil, to lighten things up a little if nothing else.
Trask has some poet in him, a bit of dark romanticism despite the clenched Puritanism.
Barnabas suspects.