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« on: April 18, 2012, 08:32:06 PM »
David has the first of many convenient, spontaneous, unexplained losses of memory on Dark Shadows. Roger could easily turn against Vicki because of this... Vicki's message is: only two people saw your wife burn to death tonight, Roger: your son who remembers nothing for some reason (or rather, DOES remember being at the shack, remembers it burning, but doesn't remember Laura being there) -- and me. You'll just have to take my word, Vicki would have to say.
That was definitely a well-done scene, with Roger and David. Sproat again? I like David's correction of Roger's grammar, then his immediately apologizing, not out of fear of punishment, but to be nice. The two of them are just so anxious to be considerate to each other after this life-changing crisis (David must have some idea what happened on some level), taking such great pains to cushion each others' feelings....
I wondered why the police didn't have the locket now. Were they ever called? I'm sure "We put her on the bus, and that's the last we saw of her" will be the Collins family position, but the town's buzzing about the whole story, with Maggie getting minute-by-minute updates so that she's always on top of it, no doubt passing this along to everyone she sees while she explains that she's not the town gossip.... It's all reached Sheriff Patterson by now.
If this were my first viewing and not my second, I'd be five times more enthusiastic about all this. I first saw this in January. It would have been nice to chronicle a first-time viewing, with all the visceral responses, so I'm sorry I couldn't wait and had to watch over the holidays, and needed just to be a viewer, not a reviewer. I really needed it then.