You're welcome on the Tarot Lydia.

it seemed clear to me that when Stokes threw the wands down, there were more white sides up than there were on the door.  It may be that while we were looking at the door the first time, the wands were rearranged to show what was on the door.

I noticed Stokes doing a LOT of rearranging and a little flipping to make the pattern after Barnabas (not Stokes) threw them down.  I guess that was inevitable, cuz Barn couldn't be expected to actually throw them into the desired result.  When you referred to the pattern on the table in 1969, I thought we were talking about the pattern when Stokes was done with them, lol, and those are what looked the same to me as on the door.

That diagram doesn't look like the 49th to me.   It just looks like five thin white lines actually...

Sorry.  The colors should display (top to bottom, though I think I-Ching is read bottom to top) as broken/solid/solid/ solid/broken/solid.

I wonder if we're being fooled by seeing the wands from the side rather than from the top.

I wondered exactly the same above, but didn't word it as clearly as you.  You have to look really carefully to distinguish the top from the sides when there's a white (broken) side or top.

An acquittal doesn't mean that he's innocent....there was just too much poisonous fruit to the tree.

(fruit of the poisonous tree)

In a legal context, he is, because of the presumption of innocence, meaning a person is innocent until proven guilty.
As explained by Barnabas, however, a person is innocent until proven innocent.  Just kidding, of course. 

It's obvious that the pattern of the I Ching wands on the table in the basement of the the Old House in 1969 was not the same as the pattern on the door that Barnabas saw.

Really?  The pattern on the door looked exactly the same to me as the one Stokes arranged on the table.

What were those cards that Edith had?  There was Tarot there, but there were also some other cards.  Were they old fashioned playing cards, from before they put the number and the suit on the corner?

That was all Tarot.  We usually see cards from that deck's Major Arcana, but Edith had mostly Minor Arcana cards in front of her-- pentacles, wands, swords and cups, including a court card (an inverted Knight of Wands, which should have cued her in to exactly who was at the door, lol).  There are samples here:

1JJ Swiss Tarot images

It was my first deck, purchased after seeing it on DS, naturally.  I bought it at a witch's shop in San Pedro's Ports O'Call, which is one reason why I loved that the Village stood in as Collinsport in '91 and '04.

You have every right to be pleased over that capture, MB!  I'm just guessing here, but it seems like the meaningful sort of pose that Magnus was talking about when he described the images he likes to draw.


Today's montage image is from a scene that Jerry Lacy discussed during the last Brooklyn Fest-- He said that although it wasn't visible on camera, when Trask grabbed Vicki and screamed that line, Alexandra had actually walked too far inside of his long cape, and with each step they were being pulled lower until they eventually toppled out of view and onto the floor.

It worked with what was going on because it comes across as one of the most intense scenes on DS.

You're welcome.

Awesome setup, too!

So Ned gave Sabrina the key to Chris' place?  Ha ha, what happened was his fault too!

And buh bye to him, cuz this is Ned's final appearance.

Is Roger Davis wishing that Lisa Richards had been cast as the original Victoria Winters?

alwaysdavid, I'm guessing that when you said that, you were aware that Lisa Richards auditioned for the part.

Roger and Jaclyn Smith were married less than a few months when he played Ned, so I can't fathom why he would be molesting Sabrina with that stunningly beautiful bride at home.  (Apparently, he urged his wife to audition to replace Alexandra, making this all seem even stranger because if she'd gone through with it, as Jeff/Peter, his bride would have played his bride, and OMG, how would he have behaved on camera then??  )

When Sabrina showed up Chris waited like an eternity to tell her to get lost and then why did he not have the door barred.  I realize he was in his early twenties, but he must have had some sense.

When it happened (nearly 2 years before, according to Ned), Chris would have been around 26 cuz we learned this:

In ep #676 which taped/aired in January, 1969, Chris tells Barnabas that his first transformation occurred right after his 21st birthday, 7 years before.

I guess when the alternate personality was installed in Maggie, her hair automatically responded.

LOL  Yesss, my hair has at times behaved as if it were possessed.  Sometimes by demons.

Thanks for your explanations, Magnus & Lydia!