Roger to Liz:  "Marriages can be annulled."
Hey Roger, CAROLYN IS NOT YOUR DAUGHTER.

Now vampire Megan is wearing Liz's hand-me-down snake pin.

And we get a first mention of Parallel Time, and the first look at Angelique's portrait.

Julia to Barnabas:  "Suppose time is like a road and parallel to it there's another road. On one, we live the lives we know, but on the other road our lives are different because we're in a different time band and we've made different choices. For example, in that other band of time, I could have made a different choice when I was at college. Instead of being a doctor, I could have married and had children."
It's probably a good thing that I wasn't watching in 1970 because that would have made me, budding feminist that I was, throw something at my TV.  Shame on Sam Hall for basically saying that a woman's career and the choices concerning her personal life must be separate and distinct paths, and for making his wife (a strong, independent female character) utter that crap in front of the little girls that were watching.

Julia to Barn re PT room's look: "Was it modern?"  Good question, time travel's a possibility.

Or she wanted to rule out that it was a vintage photo?

Anyway, I know MW was told Megan was being killed off and she took another job because of it.   Was that premature?  Might they have created PT Megan if she hadn't bolted?

They did have another part for her and begged her to take it (perhaps to play Samantha Collins?), but Somerset had her under contract.  They had a part for her in HoDS too, but she needed more than the week's notice that Curtis gave her and subsequently, the scene was never filmed.  <sigh>

And anyway... couldn't Julia have incapacitated Megan in her coffin with a cross, and then given her injections?

Hmm, as someone who has had to give injections to uncooperative patients-- who fortunately for me were not vampires-- I'd guess no.

So why can’t Barnabas kill Megan? Is it absolutely necessary that a non-vampire do it? Couldn’t Barnabas cut her head off or something?

I totally understand why you'd ask that, considering all the verbal posturing that Barnabas was doing.  Please, Barn, you're going to be crashed out while your friends take on all the shame and assume all the risks.  There's no I must or we must about it.

There's a picture of Donald Hotton, the minister who married Jeb and Carolyn, on the Memory Alpha site from his appearance as a Bajoran on the Star Trek: DS9 pilot--
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Donald_Hotton

Jeb (thinking):  "No one came running in when the minister said, 'If any man knows any reason why this couple should not be united, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.'"
And it's a good thing no one did; can you say 'stampede'?

The boom mic made an appearance over the wedding bed.

Someone fixed Jeb's suit.

It did look a lot cheaper in the previous ep.  Don't know if it was the DVD transfer, or camera adjustments back in the day, or whatever, but it's weird how colors and textures can vary from one episode to another.

Speaking of coats, Liz walked into Collinwood in the same one that Angelique wore in the previous ep.

Product placement for "Rick" brand white rice.

Nope, it said RICE.  If there was a brand name on that box, it was obscured.

I have no trouble believing that Jeb's Leviathan self contained all of his unpleasantness, and that the unpleasantness was completely destroyed when the Leviathan box was smashed.  I wish we could have seen some inward wondering on Jeb's part at how all his anger and malice have disappeared like clouds after a storm and left only the rainbow of his bright new personality,

This would explain Jeb's transformation if it was only his dark side that was destroyed along with the box, but that's not what we're told.  They've explained that the box's destruction wiped out his entire physical body and stripped away all of his powers, but not that it targeted certain (negative) parts of his personality.

Based on what they give us, my interpretation of his personality makeover is that the destruction of his physical self left his essence, or spirit, behind, and that remnant of him willed itself to be good for Carolyn's sake-- that the change in him came about by a choice that was motivated by love.  That's just my take.

Oh god.  What a mess.

Wardrobe discontinuity-- Jeb did the reshoot minus his jacket.  ... And whatever was outside the carriage house door is gone now. ... One of the cameras has color issues; Carolyn's room was a sunny yellow in the previous ep, but here the walls are almost beige.  Other colors are washed out too, til the camera angle switches and then they're fine. ... The passionate kiss that Jeb laid on Carolyn gave her a bloody lip.  She noticed right away but there wasn't much she could do but wipe the blood from his mouth after they kissed again.  Nowadays, no way would an actor kiss someone who has a bleeding lip.  ... Why would a vampire need a scarf? ... The marks on Philip's neck are visible before he's bitten.  (They should have put the scarf on him!) ... Styrofoam rocks on Widow's Hill, or Jeb is really strong when he's flailing.

Peter to Jeb:  "You're going to die the only way you can-- by drowning."
Jeb cornered on Widow's Hill by a werewolf-- I believe that's known as win-win.

Wait a minute... how did he get to Little Windward in his true form if not by swimming?

We're told that since Peter is not flesh and blood, he must use a human surrogate to push Jeb off the cliff.  And yet, the ghost can move the clocks of a hand with his finger, put Jeb into a deep sleep, open doors and windows, control lights, slip a rope around Bruno's neck, make a book go flying and set it on fire...  ??

Philip:  "I'll get him. I'll get them all!"
I guess he's not just plain scared anymore.

It's Carolyn's turn to use the little blue suitcase.

Bad Philip Todd VO.

Unfortunately, it was Bernau's only voiceover.

Where was Carolyn when all the zombies were roaming the house?

In Bangor with Roger, David and Amy.

Megan bites Philip and immediately after Megan leaves the cell, Bradford pops in.  Ever have one of those days.... when you're just sitting around in your cell waiting to be tried for murder, and your dead vampire wife appears and feeds on you, then an 18th century ghost pops in, even though he has nothing at all to do with you in any way?

 

Yes Jeb, strange and frightening!!   Strange and frightening!!!!!   If you say so!!

I was thinking that strange and frightening could describe the pairing of Chris Pennock and Roger Davis, cuz trying to keep up with one line mangler is bizarre enough, but any effort to follow a conversation between two of them is doomed.

When Carolyn said (without laughing) "Let's synchronize our watches," and said it was 1:30, I thought surely she had to mean 1:30 in the afternoon, but I knew it had to be nighttime.

Jeb said it-- after she fed him the line, "You'll be here in two hours."  I wondered if the synchronize comment was an improvisation after messing up.

Wonderful screen cap, MB!

I'm watching the episodes on DVD for the first time and because they look sharper and clearer, I'm picking up on lots of little things that I didn't notice before.

Even though it only happens in a dream sequence, I found it very satisfying to see Carolyn in a wedding gown and veil.  (Vicki, Daphne, Liz, Millicent, Maggie, Kitty, Angelique and Josette wore wedding dresses... but even with her legion of fans, Julia got overlooked.)

Who sent Carolyn the dream now that the Leviathan plan is kaput?  Nicholas?  It felt like something he would do to strike back at Jeb.

We see Barnabas' reflection in the mirror again, this time at Collinwood.  Have the cameramen been inexperienced lately, or did everybody stop caring?

Barnabas: "I think the time has come, Elizabeth, for you to know the truth about a great many things."
#1. I’m a vampire.
#2. I kidnapped Maggie Evans
#3. I killed Jason McGuire
Etc, etc…

LOL  Well said, JtW!

Did the picture jump on anyone else’s DVD??  And were those boxes outside the door??

Yes to the jump.  I can't say what was outside the coach house, but did you catch this?--

Ah, so Maggie has been sequestered at Windcliff.

The camera blooper in this one came when it panned over to the other side of a pillar in the Old House, revealing Barnabas' reflection the mirror.

The sudden return of Angelique's love spell on Maggie and Quentin was ludicrous.  You should practically be able to make out CLUMSY PLOT DEVICE in the prongs of the pitchforks.

Blair is finding out that it's hard to talk a revolutionary leader into wanting a revolution, especially if he has a tiny attention span.

Ooh, marvy!

This incantation seems like a redux of an old one??  Am I imagining things?

You're not imagining anything.  It's a lot like Evan's when he attempted to summon the Devil.


Janet, fictional scenes are subject to removal.  Thanks.