Discuss - Ep #0309

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Barnabas is resorting back to his old  MO, when you get scared attack someone.  Julia should know that she can't hide things from Barnabas, but how can he be amune, to knowing how she feels about him. I wonder if right now she cares more about Barnabas or the experiment?  I think she can see the type of person Barnabas is when he talks about Sarah.   We got to see more of Julia's and Barnabas's relationship of a sort.

Julia sure got out of the house and into the woods really fast and back to the house. Is Sarah now protecting Julia?? Does she want Barnabas to be cured? Or would she want him to come back home.

I know that Barnabas  feels good that he handled things with Burke, now why can't he do this with every one.?    Burke is out of the way for now. I guess that Vickie means a lot to him, more than getting Barnabas. I bet this make Vickie feel strong and able to control Burke.  Burke and Vickie are not interesting at all.

Burke was sort of interesting today.  On the one hand, he said to Vicky that if her interest Barnabas extended only as far as friendship, then he (Burke) didn't care about his suspicions of Barnabas.  So he admitted that his suspicions were the result of jealousy.  On the other hand, when Barnabas offered to tell Burke all about his daytime activities, Burke refused the offer.  Previously when I watched this episode, I thought it was because Burke didn't care anymore, but today I thought it was because he knew that Barnabas's answers would start his suspicions again.  So, Burke is willing to let a madman go loose if he can have Vicky.  Think globally, act locally.

I would have liked to take a look at the book that Barnabas brought for Vicky.  So it was at the bottom of a pile of books in the attic?  Barnabas, Barnabas, you've got a huge house.  Get Willie to build some bookshelves.  So it helped explain the motivations of the people of the period?  If it was an old, non-fiction book, I have my doubts.  So Vicky had questions about Chapter 2?  I didn't think she was paying much attention to the book while Burke and Barnabas were talking.  She looked like a girl waiting while her fiancé asks her father for her hand in marriage.  Anyway, it looked as though she had the book open to Chapter 1, not Chapter 2.  Chapters can be any length, but in older books, they tend to be longer.  Incidentally, it was nice to see Barnabas and Vicky do something more than talk idly about the past.  Sitting down and talking about a book together that they had both read - wow!

What did Julia feel when she felt Sarah's presence?  If ghosts exist, I have absolutely no affinity for them.  I do believe in ESP, but I believe that my brain is not configured correctly for it, and the same would go for ghosts, if I believed in them.  So: what does one feel when one senses something supernatural?  Julia didn't feel the cold that she felt when she was in Josette's room with Vicky a few weeks back.  The music was the usual Dark Shadows "something eerie is happening" music, and it works perfectly for me - but Julia didn't hear it.  Julia doesn't comes across as psychic or sensitive to the supernatural; she comes across as coldly logical.  And yet she feels things.  What would it have been like for her, growing up as a smart, scientific type, who couldn't discount the evidence of her senses that the supernatural existed?

I just realize have you noticed Angeliques spell music has been happening a lot lately. I just thought that I would bring that up. 

I just realize have you noticed Angeliques spell music has been happening a lot lately. I just thought that I would bring that up. 

Yes, I noticed that, too, loril54.  I used to think that it was only Angelique's spell music, until I watched the part of the show before she was on again a few years ago.  I was especially surprised, when I saw the pre-Barnabas episodes for the first time in 2004 and 2005, to find it was originally Laura's spell music!  I think that once it was Angelique's music, it became her music! 

Burke obviously was more concerned about staying together with Vicki than finding out the mystery of Barnabas.  I'm sure this made Vicki feel more powerful! 

Considering all the times Barnabas "strangles" Julia, she comes out of it relatively unscathed.  He's obviously not trying to kill her - just getting her attention!

Ghosts certainly do have a mind of their own, don't they?  Sarah only appears when she wants to appear.

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Considering all the times Barnabas "strangles" Julia, she comes out of it relatively unscathed.  He's obviously not trying to kill her - just getting her attention!

What a way to get someone's attention!

Barnabas is resorting back to his old  MO, when you get scared attack someone.

Umm - Barn never actually loses that MO. It always comes back. It's as much a part of him as his spiky bangs.    In other words, something that could be changed but never is - and probably never will...

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This episode demonstrates just what an extraordinary actor Jonathan Frid could be in this role when he remembered all his lines.  He must have studied extra hard for this day's work since there was not a single stumble or desperate look towards the prompter in the entire episode.

In fact, I thought all the scenes this day worked well because they were all understated in both the writing and the acting.  Even the "spooky" scene came across well because it was kept simple and eerie.

I must say, though, that Julia sure does twitch a lot when she's trying to appear "untroubled" and "unworried."