Okay, now I've read your response, MB.   (We're posting simultaneously.)   Yes, it's clearer your way, and I'll try to remember that from now on.   I just didn't think of it.

I was thinking something probably vaguely similar Lydia, about wanting 1995 [spoiler]to go on much longer, even with things appearing hopeless.[/spoiler]   I wouldn't have them live in Bangor, or maybe I would... I also thought about opening the story up to show bits of the rest of the world in 1995, especially if what happened at Collinwood has any effects elsewhere, though it probably didn't.   This is more appropriate for PT, but I'd rather see it here.

Julia was credibly frightened at first in 1995, and that was well done.   She spoke hesitantly, in a sort of low dry whisper.  Then she reverted, I think, to standard scare Julia, and I think we've seen a lot of that in the past.   She gasps, says why o why is this happening, when will we know, etc., a la Amanda Harris in limboland.   My image of Julia from childhood does not include any of this-- it's more of a combination of Julia's steely, daring early days, without the callousness, with later good-guy heroine Julia.

We see a photo of those wonderful rosy days of summer 1970, where Quentin and Maggie show off with glee their new thermos container in a b&w photograph.   Aren't these people supposed to be rich?!  

Ditto Lydia on Collinwood's perfect summer w/o Barnjulia!

Did we see Mrs. Johnson make a silent decision to sacrifice her life, while talking to Barnabas and Julia, in order tell them the story so they could correct the time-line?   I know she was soon spooked out of it, but seeing what's-his-name at the window could have changed anyone's mind.  

One of DS's best moments:  Carolyn desperately begging Mrs. J not to hurt her by being dead.  This time I didn't even see the edit they did, that extended the time Clarice sat there without blinking.  Unfortunately, we catch a blink in a longer shot.

Cool Batman angle.   It works.  I'm used to not thinking of DS as being actually scary, as more of an occult-based drama or (melodrama sometimes).   Then I see this, and realize it was scary sometiumes.

What am I doing?   Apparently I did it at least twice since you said "again" but I may have to go offline before I get to the first instance, so I'll ask here.

Set-up:
BC: (singing) "The sun will come up... tomorrow... bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow...!!"
J: "Don't be ridiculous, Barnabas, you might as well sing _______!

Whoever does the VO tells us only three people are at Collinwood now.   He speaks as if one of them is Stokes, but I doubt he lives there.   [spoiler]Quentin does, so he's the third.[/spoiler]  Since he goes out of his way to point out that Carolyn is "mad", maybe he shouldn't single her out in that way, and give us the mental state of everyone.   Carolyn is mad, Mrs. J is a no-longer-repressed hysteric, Stokes is sane but crotchety....

Carolyn to Barnjulia at open door of secret room: "I knew you'd come back here."   Great moment.   I love how even in 1995, Julia still pulls out the "I'm (we're) writing a book" story!   No expiration date for that one, I guess!   I wonder if after her disappearance in 1970, everyone referred to her as "That doctor who was writing a book about our family and gave us sedatives."   I'll bet they especially missed the sedatives.   [spoiler]Those who survived anyway...[/spoiler]

This storyline is drawing me in, and it made me wonder-- [spoiler]What would it have been like if they'd spent a full storyline in 1995 as with 1897 or 1795?[/spoiler]   By the way, what's with all the fins de siècle in DS?   What significance is there supposed to be to the end of a century?   DS goes out of its way to time-travel amongst the closing years of three centuries.   Wikipedia talks about degeneration, a great era falling apart.   

They are making things creepier.  For me, this beats flowers and twins, no disrespect meant to those who really like PT.   That blue glow effect is great.   I don't know, but this might be the kind of thing people actually describe seeing.   Points off for the by-now obligatory music-box theme.   You're not allowed to have a music box theme if no music box is in the storyline...

The lifelong Collinsport resident and cop sounds very Midwestern.   ***  It'd be cool if Julia had found in her closet in 1995 the exact same green suit she was wearing... [spoiler]It would have been a spoiler though.   It would indicate that she does make it back to 1970.   But then she presumably gets killed!   Or driven off without her belongings...[/spoiler]    Julia finds her medical journal in that "strongbox" (or fishing tackle box) in the armoir in her room...  Did it actually find its way back there, in the same ineffective, highly-portable metal box, in the same piece of furniture?

End-- Julia's a cheek-clasping fraidy cat again!   Grayson got across credible fear early in the episode; why switch back to the possibly-camp reactions now?  [spoiler]Gerard face!![/spoiler]

I know what you mean about the 1795 color staying after 1795, though it does give you a feeling of connection with 1795, as if all that really happened in the same present-day room.   That color's more "salmon" or something though, and it does seem of the time to me, not that I'm close to being an expert.   Actual pink would definitely have been over the top.

  PTBarn was trying to communicate with RT people? Who knew? 

Good one... that took me a few seconds to get...!   Yes, Fake South American PTBarnabas was calling to Burke!