Yay for Sally! 

What was that old movie music playing just before Carolyn sees Sky?  I thought he must have turned on the TV.   It's very out of place as DS background music.

I think Sky said something about having turned on the radio, or did I imagine it?  Did anybody recognize that music?

I had no clue, but Bette gave it a listen and recognized the finale, which her SO (not a DS fan, but definitely a fan of music) identified as Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)... even with Carolyn talking and screaming over it.  However, that still doesn't answer your question, because as you can see on that page, some form of the Dies Irae has shown up in a lot of works, including Requiems and symphonies such as "Night on Bald Mountain" (you probably heard it in Fantasia), and just a few of its modern appearances are in "The Ballad of Sweeny Todd," a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and the Decepticon theme in Transformers.  But one name mentioned by Dave and Bette that uses its melody was Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," which turned out to be the one.  It sounds so very much better here than on the show: Symphonie Fantastique - 5th Movement (Dreams of a Witch's Sabbath) and if you listen from 7:20 to 7:55, you'll hear the part of the piece that played on DS.

Thanks, Bette and Dave!

That was a GREAT addition to the list, MB!  lol

The reunion scene between Barnabas and Angelique could have been spectacular, but I sensed an immediacy to cover certain background information, leaving no room for meaningful dialogue.  Or maybe Gordon Russell just wasn't up to the task, because I found the rest of the ep boring.  I honestly feel that the Leviathan shark has been jumped.

Angelique:  "Carolyn knew me as Cassandra."
Barnabas:  "She won't recognize you. You had dark hair."
 

I recognized the piece Carolyn supposedly plays on the piano as Chopin's Prelude No. 7 in A major.

Red flags should already be raised, but when Jeb let himself into her house and barged in on her closed-door conversation with Quentin, the last thing that Carolyn should have done was comment about how unsurprised she was by his behavior.

Quentin:  "Why don't we kidnap him and keep him away from the room?"
Barnabas:  "Take my word for it, as risky as it is, my way is the best."
That's SO typical!!!  Even though Quentin's plan might actually have worked, it always has to be Barnabas' way!

Jeb > monster anywhere, but monster > Jeb can only take place in the Room.  I didn't know that.

That's backwards, MT.  The monster can turn into Jeb anywhere, but Jeb has be in the room to become the monster.

Today we learned that Barnabas did consult with Julia about how to poison Jeb.  How disappointing.  I thought for sure that she would realize anybody who could grow from baby to man as fast as Jeb did would not be susceptible to ordinary poison.

At least that scene established that no amount of poison could affect Jeb, which explains why in this ep he was able to drink the drugged champagne along with Carolyn but was not affected by it.

Angelique's all ready to be spun off into a sitcom.  I never could stand Bewitched,

Has LP as Angelique bitten her lip before, as she did when she opened the door and saw Barnabas?  It seemed to be a Samantha-like gesture, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.  At least she didn't say, "Oh, my stars!"

Has anybody here caused his or her own car to break down?

Nope, but I think I'd simply fake it, because as little as I know about cars, Carolyn probably knows even less.

Happy Birthday, Janet the Wicked!

Whose caption was that?

See Reply #1 in the topic:

Episode #0953

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Yay!

Opening Michael's grave was accomplished under calm skies, and Julia was dry when she arrived at Collinwood to force an explanation out of Barnabas.  The two of them decided to head for the privacy of the Old House, the DS theme played, and then cue the thunder and lightning, the mood lighting, and the raging fire.  But that's not the most implausible part...

I get why they added the never-before-seen part with Oberon.  It served to impart information that had until now unfolded slowly over nearly 50 eps-- from the start of the storyline right up to the last one.  In other words, it was an easy (perhaps lazy) way to insure that all viewers got up to speed on the story.  But I happen to think that Leviathans, in theory, was not a bad idea, so maybe I'm alone in thinking that catching up this way is the same as skipping chapters of a marvelous book and reading the Cliffs Notes instead.  But even worse, to insert the scene at a point when we thought Barnabas was unconscious threw the door open to inconsistencies, as retconning often does.  For example, it makes no sense for Oberon to tell Barnabas the details of the punishments that the Leviathans had in mind for him if the intent was that he would forget them anyway.  And it clearly was not the only thing that Barnabas didn't remember about Oberon's lesson; based on #915 alone, Barn came to the present not only unaware of the background of this race of people (Adlar had to spell it out for him even though Oberon covers it here), but he seemed clueless that any punishment awaited him at all and horrified that the Leviathans knew his dirty little vampiric secrets (despite Oberon telling him here that "we know everything about you").

Like Patti, I hated the revelation that Barnabas was drugged at the cairn.  No no no!  What need would powerful, ancient beings have of pharmaceuticals?

BTW, the hand of Sheriff Davenport belongs to Assoc. Prod. George DiCenzo.