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« on: September 25, 2015, 07:37:54 PM »
Final? Don Briscoe VO. Did he have a big medical problem coming upon him at this point? A moment between Chris and Maggie that could have been enlightening, hed she been listening very closely: Chris talks about Angelique as having been "A legend in her own time... a legend anyone would find it difficult to live with." It probably sounded to Maggie as if he was saying Ang found it difficult to be a legend, or Maggie only picked up that she was worshipped, since everything was moving by so fast. What Chris was really saying was that Ang was hard to live with, not beloved by, say, her husband, who had to live most closely with her. Maggie could have really used some clarity in people's word choices right about then...
I'm certainly not picking up any sense that Angelique was such a superior person, but then I'm a DS viewer who comes from a different universe, who has been through stuff with her.... and nothing said about her indicates a decent person. Quentin glares angrily every time she's brought up. Olivier in Rebecca didn't, did he? [spoiler]He's giving things away a bit, there.
Let me start again... There's a certain kind of "superior" human being, someone cultured, knowledgeable, possibly artistic, assured, magnetic, never at a loss in any situation, dominant, perhaps fascinating in unpredictable ways... you feel you're more than you are, just by having him/her accept you. That's what Angelique and the first Mrs. DeWinter seem to have been. Someone in my family fell vaguely into the personality type, I think. Eventually I guess you find them lacking in the more human qualities. Maybe they lock you into a very unhealthy dominant-submissive symbiosis.
If she was "great" it was in the same sense as Peter the Great, who was very cultured, decisive, forward-looking, but ruthless. Remember, Hitler made the cover of Time as their Man of the Year, once.[/spoiler]
Daniel aka PT David chides PT Liz for eavesdropping outside the Drawing Room! I'm keeping eyes and ears peeled for ironic or clever opposite moments, this time around. Lydia in 2010 talked about opposites within PT, not just between RT and PT, like [spoiler](Cyrus/Yaeger)[/spoiler]. Quentin to Maggie: "To know know know you is to love love love you." Pardon my stutter.
[spoiler]Was this cliffhanger resolved? It seems as if it must be Ang's ghost, humming a lullaby in the Room, but did she have a ghost, ever? Well, this is the evidence I guess, even if there weren't other manifestations.[/spoiler]