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« on: September 05, 2015, 02:24:43 AM »
Grayson VO. Jeb's now in a passable blue suit. Total tangential aside, but I've always been mystified that people look at a standard men's suit, which to me seems to consist of a bunch of random elements thrown together, and think it's somehow attractive. A suit can be tweaked to make it more attractive, but the basics of it are soul-crushingly dull. It's a uniform.
I believe this minister who performs the (real) wedding survives his brief appearance on DS. Who knows though, maybe a truck silently ran him down after he stepped out the door... The wedding music was strange. It's a somewhat "off" version of a standard familiar bit of DS background music, meant to create an unsettled mood, I suppose. I like when they do that.
So Strack recruited Sky. Was he any older than in 1949? Probably not. Too bad we missed another possible flashback with that Garth actor. Sky actually gives this as the reason that he's not released from the Leviathans. Thanks DS, for actually explaining something once in a while... It says "Nice Sky-Barn scene... but why?" in my notes.
When Sky says that Megan's coffin is in the East Wing, that's the very first turning of the plot toward Parallel Time. I caught it this time. I enjoy pinning down the very first second of a storyline. I loved seeing Laura step into Maggie's diner for the first time, in 1967. (I saw those ep's first in 2011.) I played that over and over, pausing it on the very first bit of Laura to appear in the doorway... and to think I'm in late middle age. We're creatures of television fantasy, and always will be...
Anyway, is Rumson just too dufusish to be controlled? He's supposed to protect Megan, not give away the hiding place. Maybe her attention is on Roger (Note-- I now realize she hasn't bitten Roger yet), and she would have needed to make a conscious decision to control Sky, which she never bothered to do, because he's beneath her notice, except at feeding time. She did go out of her way, after all, to tell him to do whatever the hell he felt like, no concern of hers, until she sent for him. She would have had to bother to exercise control. Instead, she frees him, giving him latitude to do anything he wants. Is that the kind of explanation the writers do give us, but which we tend to overlook?
No rice at the wedding, notes Liz. Is rice a good luck charm for newlyweds? PARALLEL TIME! We see Liz and Hoffman a couple of times, and in one, Hoffman seems to come close to swatting PT Liz as she scampers away from her intimidating presence! Mr. Frid plays these scenes too desperately. It's Kaplan who made the actors ham it up, right? It would have been hard to know how to act those lines though, I think. A problem with Barnabas at this point is that he's so totally consumed with frantic curiosity, and curiosity alone. There's no crisis or danger requiring that level of concern from him. At other times, in other situations, his life can be in danger, and he will be considerably more level-headed about it all, and unflappable. Yet this mere novelty of a situation comes along, and it throws him completely.
It was nice how the doors reopened again on their own after PT went away. I mean, the sudden, jarring, flipping open of them made creepy "sense" somehow. They should have always done it like that. It seemed mindless, like an automatic result of an otherworldly phenomenon, not like the Invisible Man casually opened them... By Sam Hall. End.