Discuss - Ep #0438

Robservations #438

Joan Bennett seemed to have trouble with slapping Jerry Lacy today.  It didn't look real, and she bungled her lines before and after it.

I used to feel bad for Trask when Barnabas went after him.  I don't anymore.  Trask has fallen from grace, and when he called upon the Almighty as he was being terrorized, I thought to myself: "You're not on speaking terms with the Almighty anymore!"

The skeleton's head in the mirror was a beautifully done image, I thought.

I love the fireplace in Trask's room.  All that brick, and the ledge to sit on, and the fire irons and the bellows (bellows? is that the right word?), and I think there's a bedwarmer. But I keep wondering: "Why did the innkeeper make Trask sleep in the kitchen?"  Because that looks like a kitchen set-up to me.  The smaller opening to the right of the main fireplace is surely an oven.  But maybe it's the 1795 version of having a microwave oven in your hotel room.

So this is the beginning of the end for Trask! It sure was scary to hear Barnabas' voice, the screams, the chains, and the skeleton head.  But Barnabas' hand looked so fake! It actually reminded me of the hand of Count Petofi in the 1897 storyline!

I loved it when Naomi slapped Trask and gave him a piece of her mind! Hooray, Naomi! 

I thought Barnabas and Ben were foolish when they spoke outside the basement door, where Trask could hear them.

----- Sally -----

Trask is getting awfully suspicious, demanding to know who Ben was talking to, and then saying he hopes he wasn't communicating with the witch.

Trask deserves to get a taste of his own medicine, and I applaud Barnabas for taking the opportunity to give it to him!