Discuss - Ep #0260

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[Lydia]

This episode left me with all sorts of questions, the simplest of which was: Why did Barnabas go to bed with his coat on?  Related question: Why was his coffin open while he was day-deading?

My next puzzlement doesn't come out in the form of a question.  I've accepted Julia's hypothesis, that Sarah was called forth by [spoiler]Barnabas's conscience.[/spoiler]  But Sarah states clearly that he didn't know of the secret door in the cell.  So, this development is completely unplanned and unexpected and un-anything. 
The timing, however, is a terrifically coincidental.  So (ha! I found a question) what gives?

Likewise with the visit to Sam Evans, which I very much enjoyed.  (And good for David Ford, making Sharon Smyth's slip-up seem like nothing.)  If in fact [spoiler]Sarah is acting as Barnabas's conscience, then Barnabas is suffering from a truly serious case of split personality.  The gap between his conscious acts and his unconcious acts via Sarah is as wide as...um...[/spoiler]the distance between Collinwood and Seaview Terrace.

Next question: why could Sarah say the rhyme only once?  That's a mystical sort of thing, which doesn't fit Sarah's personality.

Also: why didn't Maggie take the time to shut the secret door behind her?

And now for a simple statement: if any of you ever comes to tell me the secret way out of a dungeon, don't be so mysterious about it.  I remember the first time I saw this episode, and I know that I would never, ever have deciphered the riddle to find the latch.

I loved the chase in the underground passageways, but of course that raises another question: who in colonial Maine was taking the time to build those passageways?  There were stone walls and brick walls.  And arches, too, if I remember correctly.    This was not makeshift construction.  What were those early Collinses up to?

[IluvBarnabas]

Another great episode.

While I can understand Sarah being mysterious about her identity, I am puzzled as to why she said she could only say the riddle once. If it had been me, I'd have been a goner, since it usually takes me 4 or 5 times to memorize something. Fortunately Maggie has better memorizing skills than I.

Poor Willie....he's gone against Barnabas and his plans before (the phone call to Vicki about Maggie's whereabouts, preventing Barnabas from strangling Maggie after she tried to stake him) but this is the first time, he was prepared to actually destroy his master/tormentor. But Barnabas' 24-hours-a-day power takes possession of him once again.

So Willie is forced to fact the fact Maggie is gonna die, and there's nothing he can do to prevent it. He decides to give her an easy death by poisoning her milk, but he can't go through with that either....he just doesn't see want to see the poor girl die at all but is powerless to stop Barnabas. I wonder if Willie had found out about that secret passageway accidently, would he have allowed Maggie to escape, and just tell Barnabas he had no idea about it? I like to think he would have, but being under Barnabas' power the way he was it's hard for me to be 100 percent sure.

It's so good to see Maggie FINALLY escape, though Barnabas is close on her heels. Will she get away or will he catch up to her and do away with her?

Of course I already know this but I won't spoil it for any newcomers.

[Sunny_Collins]

All I can say about this episode is, nail-biting suspense! Barnabas is so menacing, it makes me shiver.

[loril54]

Great Show, I had to watch it first that Barnabas sleep with his coat on. Maybe he drank to much blood and was drunk. He fell into his coffin with his coat and cane. 

How much time did it take to build the Old House, it had many levels of Basements. Also if the pathway comes out below Willows hill and Maggie had to climb stairs, how was it built?

There is the idea that Naomi jewels from a prirate. I bet the Collins did some smuggling, I picked up somewhere that Joshua did some smuggling of guns during the War for Independence.

Great Acting from all. JK, KLS, JF, SS, and DF. Jonathan didn't have to many lines, he did a lot with movements.

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[EmeraldRose]

The end of the show, when Maggie and Barnabas were in the tunnels, was one of the very few parts of the whole show that I remember watching as a kid, when it was originally on TV.  I also remember watching the part when Sarah was visiting Sam. 

Those scenes with Maggie figuring out the riddle and getting out of the cell, intercut with Barnabas getting out of his coffin and going to kill Maggie, were very, very suspenseful!!  (Also, the part when they were in the tunnels.)  I was on the edge of my seat, even though I knew what was going to happen!  Barnabas was right behind her, and he looked and sounded so menacing!   This was one of the best Friday cliff-hangers.  I remember that I couldn't wait until Monday to find out what happened when the show was on originally. 

Yes, indeed, poor Willie was showing his love for Maggie by offering her an easier way to die.  I'm glad he wasn't able to go through with it.

This episode left me with all sorts of questions, the simplest of which was: Why did Barnabas go to bed with his coat on?  Related question: Why was his coffin open while he was day-deading?
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Also: why didn't Maggie take the time to shut the secret door behind her?

I wondered about those things, too.

Great acting by all!

----- Sally -----