Discuss - Ep #0388

Robservations #388

Kathryn Leigh Scott had the honor of doing the first of the cut-and-paste 1795 voiceovers today.  I hope that I am correct in remembering that it didn't become a fixture until later on in 1795, because I'd hate to think that we were going to be subjected to over 50 more episodes of it.

I am always intrigued when Barnabas puts on his waistcoat after Angelique rubs his forehead.  First he buttons the three bottom buttons, starting with the bottom button, then he puts on his coat, and then he buttons up the rest of the buttons.  Does Jonathan Frid button his shirts from the bottom up?  The ground-breaking efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth, of Cheaper By the Dozen fame (that is, the real Cheaper By the Dozen), buttoned his shirts from the bottom up because, he said, it saved time.  It doesn't save time for me because I have trouble starting with the bottom button.  Either the fact that Gilbreth was vastly overweight made the difference, or else it was the right-left difference between the positioning of men's and women's buttons and buttonholes.  Anyway, inquiring minds want to know: how does Jonathan Frid button his shirts?  Incidentally, it seems to me that whenever I see a picture of David Selby, he's wearing a pullover-type shirt, so maybe he just can't decide.

I felt terrifically sorry for Josette today.  For Barnabas, too, but his problem is simpler: Josette told him she loved him, and then she betrayed him.  Josette is the one who does not know why she did what she did, and who takes responsibility for it anyway.

This is third day on which I'm the only one so far to post in the Watching Project topics.  (I am ignoring any scurrilous accusations from stray Trasks.)  I feel like John Adams in the movie Declaration of Dark Shadows, a.k.a. 1776: "Is anybody there?  Does anybody care?  Does anybody see what I see?"

Well the only Dark Shadows DVD's I own are 7-11 so when you get up to episode 453 expect me to chime in!

I'm looking forward to it, testokes!

I also felt sorry for Josette and Barnabas in this episode. Josette knew she was bewitched somehow, but just couldn't admit it to Barnabas. Barnabas  couldn't make up his mind - first, he wanted Angelique, then he didn't. For all her protestations, I think Angelique must have bewitched Barnabas with rose-water while she was rubbing his forehead.

----- Sally -----

Poor Nathan, wanting to protect Vicki, and at the same time, not wanting to loose his career.

For all her protestations, I think Angelique must have bewitched Barnabas with rose-water while she was rubbing his forehead.

There's no doubt about that. I can see her bewitching him.

I think it is true, Angelique did bewitch him.   You see Barnabas and Josette, they are both wanting to go back and they can't.  Josette can't face Barnabas, but I do grant her, that she did take responsibility for her actions. I don't think she wants to tell Barnabas that she really didn't love Jerremiah.  That would have killed him.

Trask's line was amazing, it almost sound like a come on line. I wonder if he used it to pick up girls?     I can't believe that Trask  is all that good. Just think of all the things that he makes happen.

What would be a laugh, what if Trask Married Angelique?  They would be a great team.  The good, bad and the ugly.