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« on: July 02, 2013, 05:14:13 PM »
This episode was easier to watch than I expected. Somehow I was able to see it through the eyes of the ten-year-old fan in me. That said; it was riveting for the most part. It helped having no detailed memories of it. The rehash was boring; as it was last time I saw it, at yesterday’s close. This time Barn felt a lot less sorry for himself and marveled in Adam’s ‘birth’. As Barn screams for Julia to return to the lab, Adam breaks free. The three of them get acquainted as much as Adam’s innocence allows. The adults decide it’s best to put baby to sleep and Adam attacks Julia after she gives him the shot to sedate him. Barn stops the attack and it is here that it appears that Barn has some kind of ‘authority’ over Adam. Next, Barn discusses all the urgent matters at hand including his survival past dawn. There’s a knock on the front door and Barn goes down to answer it. It’s Liz looking for Julia to tend to David. Barn wants Julia to stay but she leaves and promises to return before dawn. Upon Julia’s return dawn breaks and Barnabas lives. Their brief moment of joy is interrupted by noises from the lab – Adam is awake and playing a game of discovery when he inadvertently cuts himself with a scalpel and goes berserk. Unable to control him, Julia & Barn run for their lives shutting Adam’s menacing arm in the lab door.
Afterthoughts: Right off the top, a big LOL for Julia’s hop over the ravaged equipment while Adam chased her around the lab. Barn’s living past dawn was somewhat anticlimactic because we know that Adam now carries Barn’s inert vampirism. That kind of made all of Barn’s speeches a little boring for me but I was still able to appreciate them in context. A recurring dream I’ve had since childhood: being chased by Frankenstein’s monster, so the ten-year-old fan in me was quite captivated by the premise of an uncontrollable Adam. Though I’d hate to be quoted, I must say that the Adam part of this episode was the best part of this episode – sans Julia’s gymnastics, that is. Adam’s arm stuck in the door was a fabulous closing for the episode – the kid in me loved it! It appears as though they can’t make a choice between rolling credits and flashing credits.