MT, it was during the buildup to his actually being bitten.  I was being a , sorry.

Woo hoo, MB!  I wondered if that's what you meant, but I wasn't sure when it came up.

Love it, Gothick.

The ep is on Fox tonight.

Guthrie was too independent for his own good.

In the Inspector's own words, the first two murders had unusual aspects, yet Philip has now formally confessed despite there not being a lick of evidence that he committed them.  But I suppose it's a discussion better left til later.

Since Michael Hackett obviously could not have been any relation of Buzz's, and James Blair wouldn't have been related to Nicholas, I'm guessing that we're not supposed to infer any familial ties between Lawrence and Dr. Peter Guthrie.

Carolyn to Amy, who is too frightened to speak with Quentin:  "There's not a reason in the world not to talk to him."
Quentin:  "No, Amy. There's not a reason in the world."
Not in this world, anyway.  

Was this the final appearance of Quentin's ghost?

Inspector Guthrie had a nice early Sixties look to him, I thought.  He seemed like sort of a lightweight, which may have been part and parcel of that nice early Sixties look.

Using his performances in Sam's Song (made the year before he was on DS) and The Swap (which added new scenes of him as the same character that were filmed 10 years later) as a reference, I really appreciate the acting he did on DS.  As Andrew, he's the polar opposite of Guthrie-- he's smarmy and privileged, and he makes no secret of having the hots for the girlfriend of Robert DeNiro's character (the Sam in the first title), eventually dumping his wife for her, which I'm guessing is the part of the plot that inspired the 2nd title.  I won't even get into why Andrew is revealed to be gay in the 2nd movie, but whatever.  Anyway, The Swap is dreadful, but I think DS fans should see it, though that's mostly because DeNiro's gal is played by Terry Crawford.  It's also the movie in which she got topless, if you care about that.

From Parade magazine--

Tim Burton "shares his favorite monsters, madmen, and villains in the movies," and had this to say about Barbara Steele:

[Her] breakout performance as Katia Vajda/Princess Asa Vajda in Mario Brava's Black Sunday (1960) is a testament to her unsual, haunting beauty. There's no mistaking why Steele went on to become the Queen of Italian Horror.

See Tim Burton gets into character for the full article.

How I wish he could find a part for her in the DS movie.  Wouldn't she have been a terrific Maleva in The Wolfman?

As MB said, it's best to not speculate about it.

For the first time in years, I don't think the change in Angelique's clothes and hair is a continuity error.  If she really couldn't get back to the island until morning, it makes sense that she'd have the spend the time doing something.

And though her powers are dormant, the ep made it clear that she still possesses a sharp intuitiveness-- she sensed that Sky purposely drew her away from the house, and that something bad had occurred in her absence.  But with that in mind, how could she have been so wrong about her husband?  And btw, I bet Donald Trump doesn't spend even a fraction of the time on the phone that he does.  When Sky isn't placing or accepting calls, he's telling somebody about the calls.

Chris' cleaned-up look was really scary!  He looked better in a bloody shirt and messy hair.

Chris to Barnabas:  "Tell [Jeb] to make a clean job of it when the moon is full."
Apparently, Chris knows that killing a werewolf in human form turns him/her into the animal forever.  But if he knows, shouldn't Quentin have known too, and if so, why would he try to poison Chris?  The answer is probably that introducing the new detail was a mistake.

Jeb:  "So everything he told me this morning was a lie. That I thought he had saved my life."
Sky:  "Evidently, everything he told you was a lie."
Jeb:  "Yeah, everything."
C'mon, Chris P, focus on your lines.  

Jeb:  "MORE, MORE, MORE!"
How do you like it?  How do you like it?
-or-
With a rebel yell...
(Sorry!)

What does Richard Fairbanks and his grave have to do with Jeb collecting a bat?

Because Jeb sought to employ Fairbanks' spirit to help make his incantation effective.  It's the same principal as collecting graveyard dirt for use in magic, good or bad.  In this case, the bat he called for was no ordinary bat-- it was summoned from hell.  (A bat out of hell, ha!)

Angelique really shouldn't have expected Sky to believe her unbelievable story about the Leviathans.  Maybe he pretended some initial incredulity to keep up the pretense that he was just a down-to-earth business tycoon.  Either way, it was fun to see Barnabas's secret leaking out that way.

Unfortunately, we saw neither, because Geoffrey Scott was apparently incapable of registering any emotion-- there wasn't a hint of emotional pain when he accused Angelique of keeping secrets, and when Angelique finally did start telling him about the Leviathan plan, she may as well have been talking to the walls because we got nothing.  What a waste of a good plot twist.

Chris was over the top at the end but he could have been on drugs that day as he has admitted to doing! I look for his pupils to be dilated all the time!  LOL

Though, as you'll see when you get to attend a Fest along with him, Pennock can be very animated and excitable on stage, especially while performing his autobiographical comics.  So, unless he has specifically said that he was on a drug high during that scene, we really can't know if he was.