Discuss - Ep #0734

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Robservations #734

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Re: Discuss - Ep #0734

[IluvBarnabas]

Gregory Trask's philosophy is that children should be treated like animals rather than human beings. I wonder how many children he turned into killers, thieves, brutes, prositutes or child abusers themselves by practicing his theory on them throughout the years with his many sick and twisted forms of punishment?

Even if Jamison had stayed in the closet, Trask would have found another reason to punish him....that's what sadists do. They always look for an excuse to lash out against their helpless victims. I found myself hating Edward and Judith almost as much as Trask for not giving the children the benefit of the doubt and always siding with Trask over them. There's a fine line between discipline and torture and from what Rachel has said and what we have seen in here Trask has overstepped that line (and not caring one bit) many a time.

I always believed (and still do) that the reason Trask wants Rachel back at the school is he still wants her. Of course he would never admit to that but from their first scene together it was obvious to me he did want her....and not to save her from herself, I might add.

Tim really wants to be as kind to Jamison as he can be, but Trask won't allow it. I wonder if Trask blackmailed Tim into proposing to Charity with the threat of ratting him and Rachel out to the authorities.

Tim wants Trask to leave Rachel alone, but again Trask won't hear of it.
I like seeing Magda be kind to Rachel (even if she is still a bit out for herself) because heaven knows Rachel is really going to need every bit of kindness she can get. Tim goes to Magda offering his help, she tells Rachel and Rachel decides to take a chance and trust him. Big mistake.

It is sad to see Rachel go into Tim's arms, thinking he's come to help her escape and then she and us the viewers see Trask, standing there, with an evil, smug looking triumphant grin on his face. I wanted to smack it off his face with my wrists with brass knuckles.

[DarkLady]

Trask makes it pretty clear that he can get Tim and Rachel to do whatever he wants by threatening them with the gallows. I suppose that for Tim, even marrying Charity might work out better than that. Trask tells him, Children are animals but with one important difference. They can be taught. But not by talking--they learn through fear! (Tim is sitting on the only chair--a small stool.) Changing the subject, Trask notes, You weren’t at dinner last night--Charity was upset. I haven’t been feeling well, Tim says with a most un-loverlike lack of inflection. Please give her my apologies. One must not give in to these weaknesses, Trask advises him. I trust you feel strong enough to go to Collinwood. Mrs. Trask has come back with unsettling news.  Do they want to send the children back? Tim asks hopefully. No, Trask replies, Rachel has decided not to return. Tim looks away to conceal a surprised smile, but Trask pounces: What do you feel? Envy? Are you proud of her for her defiance? Don't you think that she would learn, as you have, that this house is filled with love? I will have nothing to do with bringing Rachel back to Worthington Hall, Tim says resolutely. But in the end, he does.

Trask almost boastingly asks Jamieson if he's heard stories of punishment from the other kids. Jamieson says yes but refuses to name names and gets locked in the closet for his trouble. He has more backbone that all the adults at Collinwood combined. But when he thinks he's figured out how to escape from the closet, Trask is waiting for him, just as he's waiting for Rachel when Tim takes him to the mausoleum.

ILB, Jerry Lacy sure does a great job with the evilness of Trask, doesn't he!