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Offline Raineypark

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Waiting for Houdini.....
« on: March 05, 2003, 03:20:53 PM »
....or perhaps "The Great Kreskin"?

WHAT was that funeral bier they had David on?  Was the Set Decorator stoned?  It looked like the props from a traveling carnival's Magic Act!!

Can you imagine a family like the Collins' having such a display in the house?  Please.  And there's no 'dream sequence' excuse here....the point was supposed to be that Julia was 'seeing' the future reality....not having a 'long strange trip'!!

And about Julia's visit to the Drug Store......what was she supposed to get there?  Snake oil?  Linement?  Even Aspirin didn't hit the market until 1899!  Barnabas would have done better to introduce her to Magda and send them into the Collinsport  Pharmacopoeia......the local woods!!
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Re:Waiting for Houdini.....
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2003, 02:09:08 AM »
 8) Well, it's obvious to me by now that anything can be made available if it fits the story. "Snake oil" was probably one of the "substitutions"! Egad! Barnabas doesn't care what goes into his body!!
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