The Gov & JJ ep has screened at the last couple of Fests, and considering the repetitiveness of material shown at the events, I'm sure you'll have a chance to see it at the next one you attend.  And the one after that...

Nicholas is happy to be out of hell, where he served out his punishment since the last screw up.  He has also forgotten what it's like to fall in love with a human and to be willing to put everything on the line just to marry her.  Over in the big house, Carolyn can sense her father's presence.  Evil, sorcery, betrayal, hauntings-- it's business as usual at Collinwood.

Nicholas to Jeb:  "To want to be human is for the Leviathans the greatest sin."
I thought that was an interesting choice of words.  I know what he meant, but when did sin become undesirable to devils and an ancient race that revels in evil and chaos?

A blooper-- Pennock can still be seen after he was to have disappeared from Carolyn's dream.

Blair!   He brags: "I can change anything!"   I wanted Jeb to pull out a dollar and ask him for four quarters....  Or pull out a baby who's soiled her/his diapers...

   If Nicky B is so powerful and in control, how come he needed Bruno to tell him where to find Jeb?

But he claims to have been in on the Leviathan business from the start, keeping an eye on it to make sure it didn't go too far astray - and now it has.

Why'd he take so long to butt in?!

Incidentally, isn't there something terribly, terribly wrong about a redhead other than Julia living at Collinwood and handing out sedatives?

Hah!

First Bob O'Connell got a screen credit despite having no lines, and now Dennis Patrick gets one without even showing up.  BTW, I wonder what made him so happy when that photo was taken.

Nice!!!!!!

It's another lifeless zombie!!!!   Oh wait, that's Sky

Julia (holding a syringe):  "Now this time, I must give you the dosage that I believe in. As you know, before I listened to you, and that's when you aged. But this time, you must accept this."
Uh, was this really necessary?  She explained to Barnabas why she couldn't give the injections all at once the last time she treated him.

Jeb has called it "Colleensport" and now it's "Colleenwood."  I'm glad Chris Pennock learned the correct pronunciations by the time he played a member of the Colleens family.  But one thing's for sure-- CP had great hair!

Liz to Jeb:  "Sometimes it seems as though our family just kept this house, waiting for you, til you were ready to take over."
No wonder Liz smiles so much in this episode; she has lost her mind!

So Megan was home...

When we see her in the burning shop, she has gloves on and a purse on her arm, so she probably just got there.

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how many DS crises over the years were resolved by the sudden re-appearance and intervention of a character who'd been gone awhile, and whom we'd almost forgotten about?

Right.  You'll forget about Megan about the time that pigs (all pigs, not just the cheap insufferable ones) learn to fly.

LOL!  You're not fooling anyone, MT.  You dig her, man.

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I'm not sure what the big irrational plot point is in this one, that MB's talking about.

The description I used was "ridiculous."  ... it's also referred to in Ep #953. 

Since it was already revealed a couple of WP topics ago, here are the quotes from this ep:
Philip to Megan:  "Is that all I can hope for-- some innocent person to die in my place?"

Philip to Barnabas:  "They're going to hang me for them, I know that."

who knows if, by the time Philip offered his confession, they had found some poor innocent to fill the shoes of Patterson and Davenport?

In #950, Carolyn was speaking to the new sheriff on the phone.

What an overwrought, knife-laden mess of an episode.  I guess I was supposed to feel for Barnabas when he couldn't bring himself to say the word "vampire," but in truth I just didn't care.

We're told that only the box can create new cult members, but what about the mighty Levia-dream, or the expert salesmanship of humans like Bruno and Strak?

A blooper-- Nelle's bite marks got uncovered too soon, so Julia put the scarf back over them til it was time for their closeup.

Yes, Barnabas, pour the accelerant (that is too a word, Spell Check!) around in a big circle, then stand in the middle of it to drop the match.

Barnabas is a vampire again.

Quentin:  "He looks different, Julia."
Ya think??!!!

the Virginia woman... She must be one of those people looking for a cult to join.

I bet Strak had no trouble bringing Bruno in by promising him lots of opportunities to torture and murder plus all the women he could convert.

It's interesting that in a parallel word, Nelle has an identical counterpart in Collinsport who [spoiler]works in a bar identical to the one she wandered into.[/spoiler] Or is this one of those resemblances that we're not supposed to notice?

Barnabas feels her out, searching for some awful trait that will justify his feeding on her...

Nice!  Even though he probably was already thinking about how good her blood will taste, he did seem pleased to learn that she wouldn't mind a little killing or stealing.

Barnabas didn't care whether Megan was upstairs sleeping when he torched the place...

I didn't think of that.  You're right-- he never checked to see if she was there.  Ouch!!

Since Jeb can turn into "the most dangerous form that ever existed," wouldn't it be better to burn the building down while he's in human form so that he can't get back to the room and transform?  If Jeb were to escape out the window again in creature form and wreak havoc, how would Barnabas or anybody be able to stop him?  What am I missing?

I was surprised to see Bob O'Connell getting a credit at the end for playing the bartender, but the Blue Whale bartender did seem very much a part of the action today, even though he didn't say a word.

That surprised me too.  He didn't so much as grunt.  But it was the last appearance of Bob O'Connell, sniff.

Is this the last time we see the Blue Whale?

As the Blue Whale, yes.  In a parallel world, it made a different choice-- deciding that eagles are way cooler than whales.

Midnite-- Thanks.... The attachment of Barnabas's for Maggie that I wondered about was his overpowering desire for her right after revampirization.   He's obsessed with the fact that he can have her... tonight!   ...As if this had been a dream of his for ages.   Of course she's a friend, but when did he become Vicki II to Barnabas?

Ah, you meant his reason for wanting to bite her; I thought you were referring to his argument for NOT biting her.  I interpreted it as Barnabas finding he has the same compelling lust that he had when he was released from the coffin in 1967 and satisfied his urges (for a companion to replace Josette as well as for having a personal blood bank) soon after via Maggie.  As for her becoming Vicki II, I think that's something the writers have been pursuing vigorously ever since Maggie became governess #2.

Ha!