I don't like him now right now.

He was one of my childhood heroes. I credit the character for subliminally teaching me that doing the right thing was the right thing to do, family first, and to have a conscience, empathy, sympathy, a sense of ethics, etc. Well, it helped having that example, latch key kid here, no sibling love, divorced parents, etc.

I started watching the OS during 1897, so I only knew the good Barn --was so shocked to see the nasty Barn when I started watching from the beginning all those years later.

Perhaps she's channeling Zasu Pitts.

Thanx for answering my questions, DL, I don't know why I insist on changing Sarah's storyline. Maybe it'll sink in this time. Your thoughts re: Barn's guilt over Sarah make sense. Maybe I'd be more sensitive to it if I liked either of them.

I really liked the soft rubber tree trunk and the hair glue. I'm only sorry I missed the fake dead bush.

Everything else was pretty much more of the same. I kept thinking that this was a dull Friday cliffhanger show, but maybe by now the schedule had been altered by an assassination or some other typical '60s tragedy. This episode was pretty boring.

It is interesting to think about just how much Grayson played a role in the show's survival. She really is fun to watch and makes Barnabas a much more interesting character. Usually those who know Barn's a vampire are afraid of him and are his servants so there isn't much for him to do as himself but order and threaten (and that gets so old so fast). So now we have Julia and Sarah to bring out his human qualities. And yes the injections make it physically possible.

I just don't know if it's the actors or the writers that should get the credit.

I've gone back and forth with Sarah so many times that I now totally dislike the character and can't wait for her to be gone, and her little song too. Just what does being a ghost do for you other than bring you back from the great beyond? Does she even know she's a ghost or even dead? Is everything she knows what she knew before she died or does being a ghost afford her knowledge unbeknownst to her while living. It is really hard for me to make sense of the character. The only thing that makes sense to me is that she is a little girl first and a ghost second with no special powers of any kind other than materializing and disappearing at will.

And the Emmy goes to the fake dead bush.

"...recite the the opening soliloquy of act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet."

"Har-Har-hardy-Har-Har."

Dang, Patti, you gittin' ol' gurl!