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« on: July 31, 2014, 07:39:46 PM »
I'm such a sucker, DL. I didn't notice the lack of Barnabas in the redo. Aren't bustles the thing in the 1890s? When then? I wonder about this "failing as a woman" thing. Any legitimacy to this whatsoever, past the 60s, DL? Has this a meaning in grounded reality, or is it sexist claptrap? I mean, I imagine women cringing. But what do I know?
Semi-helpful, not-totally-villain Ang is born. Great "practical" conversation with her and Q and Magda, in which their Curse comes out, and (only on DS!!) she says, this is none of my concern, let's concentrate on MY thing, Barnabas's survival!
DL, I'd *thought* they'd started out praying to Ra. Next ep, it's to Osiris, Ra's enemy.
For the very first time in my DS watching, it was no surprise at all to me, when Ang turned up to deflect Laura. A great scene, of course, and I figure Violet Welles wrote it, but I have zero evidence based on the non-existant closing credits. Ang wins, but Laura gets to needle her about her eternal Barn-dependance. And it's only at this point that we see manifested their respective relationships as regards fire! I think Laura can only create the illusion of fire, but Ang don't know that...
Wonderful drunken Quentin, mocking Magda... perfect example of pure DS-ish intersecting of characters and situations. Real, gut-level desperation from Selby... who cares if the actual werewolf is silly and short? Werewolf stories are only good when they concentrate on the angst of the human, and this DS does magnificently. What a great thing for them to put on my TV screen for me, as a young human in the process of formation.
Laura, it seems, has a total of twenty generations to live out. Starting when? Magda pulls a fast one on the viewers, as well as on Laura, pretending to betray our anti-hero. And she gets the money for the silver bullets too!
Yes, that orange doll thingy looks JUST like Laura.... Quentin, out of it owing to his own supernatural stuff, suddenly gets all enthusuastic and everything, during his evocation of the Egyptian god Osiris. Well, besides this being Q's hobby, I suppose actual gods require a performance of sorts, some sort of thing to convince them to intervene.