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« on: July 11, 2014, 02:46:07 PM »
Laura strikes pay dirt when accusing Quentin of safeguarding Jamison for his inheritance. In their conversation, I like the tiny glimpse of backstory in Laura's remark about the police having been Quentin's "friends". Earlier he said he spied for the police. On her? Laura died March 7, 1896.
I wonder if these yellow letters and yellow telegrams we keep seeing really are yellow, or if this is from the heavy yellow tinting of the screen. They may be white.
The parts with Barnabas calling Charity are nicely atmospheric. I like how charity just doesn't care that she's sending Dirk off on a wild goose chase for a non-existant book, while she vamooses to be charitable with her blood. When cutting away from Barnabas and Charity to Quentin and Beth kissing, they do it a bit too soon, so we see them for a nanosecond waiting around... then back to Charity, then back to Quentinbeth, timed right this time.
Beth catches Barnabas in Quentin's room. I thought he was about to add another victim to his stable, but I was premature. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is real, isn't it? Anyone know anything about it?
The end of this ep is convoluted and weirdly complicated as only DS can do it... Barnabas entreats Ra to help him "out" Ra's local representative, Laura. Why does Ra agree? Sometimes the Devil and various unearthly superbeings are treated as tools to do the bidding of any human who can mouth an incantation... Barnabas knows Ra spells how? So who appeared? "Laura Stockbridge Collins", wife of Jeremiah, I guess, in period costume. A dead spirit? But a spirit of someone who revived, reconstituted, and is now living yards away. and 1897 Laura is definitely pulled out of the college for 1796 Laura to appear. And returns there after. So they're the same person existing in the present. but an ethereal costume switch happened, and she spoke strangely, as if she was only 1796 Laura for those few moments.
I'm torn between thinking these confusing nonsensical convolutions are lame, or really cool.