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« on: September 02, 2015, 09:12:25 PM »
Phillip VO. WTF, PETER BRADFORD?!? He should have said Stoddard was unavoidably detained, so he asked Bradford to step in. One of the biggest, strangest questions hanging in the air of DS... What IS Jeb really, if he was born a few months earlier, yet was in 1796 making trouble for Collinwoodites? The only thing that makes this revelation minimally acceptable is that we do know that the Leviathans' previous time and place was 1795 Collinsport.
A weird detail about that: this confusing scenario with Jeb, Peter, and Victoria happened, of course, well after the moment when the Leviathans appeared to Barnabas. So whatever they were up to in 1795, there was more to it than just sending Barnabas as a slave to 1969. OR... after having botched up their plans in 1796, Oberhaza travelled back in time a few months to avert this, and rewrite their history, as Barnabas does. YET... here's Bradford, telling us all about an erased set of events? Maybe they weren't erased. Nothing about the Barnabas encounter undoes Jeb at Widows Hill.
So Jeb can only die by drowning. And werewolves. He sounds fairly indestructible for a guy whom Nick said was just barely hanging onto existence.
Ooh, nice Megan vampire scene. It looks good on her, I have to say. We needed more of VampMeg. Sky has an acceptable appearance. Anybody looks good in a turtleneck. Frankly, I think Sky is finally making some use of himself, as Megan's blood daddy.
Meg at cell with Phillip. She doesn't seem to be pushing forward any sort of plan, as everybody else and his brother seem to be doing on DS. She just remembered where there was some more easy blood. Phillip has forgotten about the Leviathans too, but it doesn't help him. Now he vaguely blames Barnabas for "everything", whatever it was. It was affecting, hearing him try to grope in his memory for what went wrong. He processes it as "too many outsiders". This rings true somehow, it seems like something a person might think, in his spot.
Being bitten doesn't reduce Phillip's thirst for indiscriminate revenge. Again, only on DS... moments after his vampire wife disappears (literally? In front of him?), a ghost from the 18th century appears, in his cell: Peter! Peter Bradford!! ... as Eve would have put it. Is this Grand Central Station for spooks, Phillip doesn't think to say. Bradford becomes P Todd's unsolicited revenge coach, and lets him wander off light-headedly into the night.
Jeb's words from their phone talk echo in Carolyn's head: STRANGE AND FRIGHTENING!! Thunder and lightning!! Mama mia, mama mia...
Bradford's revenge plans are as poorly thought out as his legal manoevers. Phillip Todd, overpowering Jeb Hawkes? End.