"...an odd girl,vicki"

[Maria_Merriweather]

Vicky gets off the train to take a governess position to a  young boy and meet the family she is to work for--the reclusive Liz, the disturbed David, Roger who is hostile (at first). Not to mention the characters who come later--ghosts, a phoenix, a vampire. I always thought that Vicky was the normal one and that it was the Collins family that was odd.

[Nelson Collins]

roger's behavior toward vicki when she first came to collinwood was dreadful.

vicki's behavior is really only "wacky" to those outside the know(like roger)."we" see what vicki sees.every ghost she sees,every time-travel-witch-hunted belief she has is,in fact,true.but one thing that they do to vicki and also to maggie is to "surpress" their memories of traumatic events so that as bits and pieces come back to them they appear ditzy and confused.

Agreed, but every the practical continuty geek that I am, I just don't see how Roger can deny the evidence of his own eyes.  And as for Vicki herself, surely she sill has the dress she was wearing when she returned from 1795 (or is it 96 by that point?)  plus surely she must still have a scar from the GSW.

[michael c]

continuity quickly gets brushed aside after vicki returns from 1795.goodness knows what happened to her dress.she has the gunshot wound very breifly when she returns but then it just disappears and isn't mentioned again(she's back in sleeveless after an episode or two).
i don't want to get "spoilered" but shortly after her return she and barnabas are going to "go away" together(presumably to be married).but where was b. going to "go" at that point?he couldn't be away from the old house for obvious reasons.then the dr. lang business starts and all that's dropped anyways.

continuity???forget it!

[Cassandra]

continuity???forget it!

    That's so true.  And isn't it funny how when someone is going through something pertaining to the supernatural everyone begins to think that person "odd"  until it happens to them.  It's funny how fast they forget when it's happening to someone else.


Cassandra

[CastleBee]

And isn't it funny how when someone is going through something pertaining to the supernatural everyone begins to think that person "odd"  until it happens to them.  It's funny how fast they forget when it's happening to someone else.

Yes, it is. Especially when they're in denial about someone else's experience when they've already gone through a similar experience in the same story line. Sometimes the Collins family suffered from some very aggravating and recurring cases of selective memory. 

[Josette]

And isn't it funny how when someone is going through something pertaining to the supernatural everyone begins to think that person "odd"  until it happens to them.  It's funny how fast they forget when it's happening to someone else.

Yes, it is. Especially when they're in denial about someone else's experience when they've already gone through a similar experience in the same story line. Sometimes the Collins family suffered from some very aggravating and recurring cases of selective memory. 

That's what particularly surprised me about Roger during the Quentin ghost story, shortly before the start of 1897.  It  seemed that Roger was the one that never experienced anything and so refused to believe anyone else.

[spoiler]So, I was quite surprised when Roger actually saw Quentin for himself.  And, his parting shot at him as they left the house really seemed so "un-Roger-like" - I've always loved that.[/spoiler]