Burke was sort of interesting today. On the one hand, he said to Vicky that if her interest Barnabas extended only as far as friendship, then he (Burke) didn't care about his suspicions of Barnabas. So he admitted that his suspicions were the result of jealousy. On the other hand, when Barnabas offered to tell Burke all about his daytime activities, Burke refused the offer. Previously when I watched this episode, I thought it was because Burke didn't care anymore, but today I thought it was because he knew that Barnabas's answers would start his suspicions again. So, Burke is willing to let a madman go loose if he can have Vicky. Think globally, act locally.
I would have liked to take a look at the book that Barnabas brought for Vicky. So it was at the bottom of a pile of books in the attic? Barnabas, Barnabas, you've got a huge house. Get Willie to build some bookshelves. So it helped explain the motivations of the people of the period? If it was an old, non-fiction book, I have my doubts. So Vicky had questions about Chapter 2? I didn't think she was paying much attention to the book while Burke and Barnabas were talking. She looked like a girl waiting while her fiancé asks her father for her hand in marriage. Anyway, it looked as though she had the book open to Chapter 1, not Chapter 2. Chapters can be any length, but in older books, they tend to be longer. Incidentally, it was nice to see Barnabas and Vicky do something more than talk idly about the past. Sitting down and talking about a book together that they had both read - wow!
What did Julia feel when she felt Sarah's presence? If ghosts exist, I have absolutely no affinity for them. I do believe in ESP, but I believe that my brain is not configured correctly for it, and the same would go for ghosts, if I believed in them. So: what does one feel when one senses something supernatural? Julia didn't feel the cold that she felt when she was in Josette's room with Vicky a few weeks back. The music was the usual Dark Shadows "something eerie is happening" music, and it works perfectly for me - but Julia didn't hear it. Julia doesn't comes across as psychic or sensitive to the supernatural; she comes across as coldly logical. And yet she feels things. What would it have been like for her, growing up as a smart, scientific type, who couldn't discount the evidence of her senses that the supernatural existed?
