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« on: November 28, 2016, 10:29:10 PM »
1970 Barnabas shows up, better late than never, I guess. And he manages to drop into quite a mess. He feels guilty (or as guilty as Barnabas is capable of) about what's happened to Roxanne. Julia comes to the rescue with sedatives and a blood transfusion, though how she manages to accomplish this in 1840 is best left unexplained.
Desmond Collins, the son of Flora, returns from the Orient, with one of the most ridiculously inappropriate gifts imaginable. A severed head. How very thoughtful. How did he get that through customs, if there were customs at that time. Flora is less than amused and I really don't blame her. She's been presented as a free spirit/madcap character but this might be a little too much.
Of all the MacGuffins on DS, the head is my least favorite. It's basically a retread of the hand of Count Petofi, with the gore element amped up. I didn't find this scary in 1970 and I don't know. When I watched these episodes originally, all I could think of was how much fun they would have had goofing around with these props during rehearsal