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« on: August 29, 2015, 10:33:24 PM »
No dirtnap for Quentin. Maggie and Barnabas dig him up. "I cast that love spell just to save your life later" Angelique may lie, later. "You don't know what you're missing," the separate parts of Davenport on the crypt floor may say later, if questioned on the subject, and Quentin's there.
Welcome back Nicholas Blair! Did you leave just so Jeb could ruin your whole plan? That's how it seems. Nick bursts upon the scene to save the big plan, then he wanders off somewhere, and Jeb was left to sink it all. Then he gets all mad.
It occurred to me today that Nick's thing was that he wanted to start up another Big Plan, but he distances himself from it, so that he could escape blame if it's screwed up. You just can't get good help these days, he whines. Then the Devil said, what a shocking lack of a sense of responsibility in you Nicholas, really, I expected much better, and has him step in to fix things. But he knows he can't, despite all the bluster and threats-- that was all for show. The boss was watching.
So after wailing on Jeb, he drifts off to the Blue Whale, or someplace seedier and more secluded. More bad stuff happens with Jeb's rebellion and the Plan. The Devil notices. So Nick reappears and tries to get the Wedding over with fast. See, I think Nick is the closest the Devil is ever going to get to a servant with a real work ethic, and look at him. He's a flim flam man who's trying to impress the Devil as long as he can. What can you expect? Evil isn't very responsible.
Bruno and Nick are both trying to be high livers on the Devil's tab, with the fancy outfits and everything, but Bruno believes the lie, and Nick is surfing on top of it all, or trying to. Nick knows there's no pot of gold at the end of it all, there are only passing moments of power and self-indulgence to enjoy. He may have no escape/retirement plan, knowing he's just playing for time.
So Maggie was sheltered at Wyndcliffe... but not when Chris is there. Nick bursts in on Julia at the carriage house, blows things for Jeb, lets Julia go. He even helps her on with her coat! That's why we enjoy Nicholas.
Real, affecting love dialogue from Carolyn and Jeb. Did V Welles write this? Maybe I don't even need to ask. Carolyn basically proposes first. Jeb now knows what her answer would be. I like how VW, presumably, reached into this crazy, contrived relationship, and squeezed from it every ounce of whatever importance and reality could be found in it, or imagined in it. That's the most she could have done, not having been responsible for the plotting at all, I think, and she did it. Jeb, at least the part of him revealed only when with Carolyn, is totally human (keeping in ming that "human" is nor always a good thing), vulnerable, and if I can get away with saying such a thing, "innocent".
Maybe Jeb is an innocent, in the sense that his basic nature is evil. He didn't form his evil over time because of corrupting experiences. He was "hatched" that way mere months ago. He's an infant of evil in the same way that a new human is an infant of innocence. It's an innocent evil because he knows no better. Then he learns and starts to develop and change. It doesn't let him off the hook, but may diminish his responsibility a bit. I don't really believe this, not much anyway.
Quentin is dug up. I said this didn't I? Notes sort of scrambled. Jeb had said to his zombies that Quentin at least knew Jeb was a man of his word, when he threatened him.... then Barnabas digs Q up (for once doing the work-- would have been funny to see Maggie doing it because Barnabas never does), and Quentin brushes himself off or whatever, and says "Whatever that man is, he's a man of his word." LOL. DS is full of jokes now, if you listen...
Carolyn and Blair get a scene, at the carriage house, after Jeb has gone off to finalize a plan with Barnabas. Nicholas comes in. Carolyn is unsurpised to see him, even though he just sauntered into Jeb's cottage like he owns the dump. Should she know he's even in town? Did she find out in 1968 that he was a bad guy? Her memory's been wiped more often than ... I typed that hoping a good punchline would come to me. A White House tape recorder, how about that.
"Find the center of this cigarette case, Miss Stoddard!! Sorry I have no ugly medallion!! It was either this or my cufflinks!!" She is hyp-motahzed and led away by zombies.
The Big Fat Evil Wedding goes kerflooey, thanks to inadequate supervision of the events leading up to it (plus lack of refreshments), on the part of Nicholas Blair. Yes, I'm fully prepared to lay the fault completely at Nick's door, should the Devil subpoena me. Reasons given above. (I've spent so long writing this one post that I had to go back and check if all that Blair stuff at the top of the post was in there, or something vaguely remembered from some post yesterday or something.) It all went totally wrong so simply and so fast, too. Couldn't they just have glued the box together again? It wasn't "destroyed" really. Jeb just knocked the lid off mostly. New hinge, bit of glue, good as new.
So I wonder how little damage to the Box could have destroyed this silly cause utterly. A little chip off the corner? A stray drop of wood-stain remover? Anyway, the Cairn blows up, end.