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« on: July 13, 2014, 01:08:29 PM »
I think that when Dirk goes off to fetch a murder weapon for Jenny, as helpful a gesture as this was, it could legitimately be referred to as "enabling"... Dirk arms Jenny very politely, then suddenly without warning or apparent reason seizes her roughly, and puts her into the Drawing Room. Did he lock her in? Can he? No. She stays in there though, occupied with her imagined sightings of Quentin, and stabbings of same, though they couldn't let Marie do any real stabbing since it would damage expensive furniture.
Barnabas and Jenny meet for the first time, and it's handled well by everyone involved. I always like to see a new situation thrown at Barnabas, one in which we're not quite sure how he would respond, and we can be surprised. I also like to see him being nice, when he doesn't have to. It's priceless, of course, when he gets Jenny up to Josette's room to change, and she thinks he's the bellboy! "If she's in the mirror.... then where am I?" Crazy but thoughtful... and interesting.
I think Barnabas feels real warmth for Jenny, and is pleased to try to make things easier for her. He probably sees her as an innocent victim of his own family of backstabbling vipers... I'm trying to find the Barnabas of my youth, whom I identified with and believed in. It's hard. There was no onscreen reformation, not even after months of his being cured and in a human state. I might actively dislike him, if I didn't know he started out decent, and only changed in 1795. I really want "my" Barnabas back.
Quentin arrives at Jenny's door with a gun...