Watched the vhs this morning. Wow, Carolyn again comes across as almost as predatory as Barnabas, especially when (as mentioned upthread) she suggests Vicki ride the horse named Carolyn!!
Strangely enough, I find that Going and Fyfe have more of a chemistry than Going and Cross. Willie now is meek and pitiable, but his scenes with Vicki scream for the inclusion of the missing scene of them in the pick up on her first night, where they first connected. I like how Vicki sticks up for him. In his way, he's just as much a recalcitrant child as David, and it shows her talent to be able to get on boths good side. Speaking of David, while he's still cool toward her, he certainly has warmed to her quite considerably.
Roger is a dick and I don't like him right now, maybe he feels justified treating Willie the way he does but still
Never mind, the basement being open to anyone who anyone who passes by, WTF is up with a friggin' SKYLIGHT shining down on Barnabas' coffin?!?!?!?!?!
Was that bar scene at the Blue Whale? And "You talk kinda funny."? Surely even the town slut has a TV and has heard people from England talk?
Woof! Man on man vampire action! On screen! At last!
I like Julia a lot. She's very cool and classy.
I am not surprised Elizabeth knows the Doctor but I am surprised she is on a first name basis with Woodard.
Does Joe ever shave??
I can't decide about Barnabas' behavior toward Vicki, he lingers a little too long in kissing her hand and my gut instinct is that he's kind of creepy in an oily lounge lizard kind of way.
I have to admit when Barnabas was talking about Josette and said "an accident!" I immediately thought of a similar in the Rocky Horror Picture Show and even repeated aloud "An accident!"
The portrait of Josette like the portrait of Barnabas, looks very much out of the time it was supposed to have been painted. She looks too free and voluptuous and frankly a bit wanton, beyond which I think even the French of the time would venture.
Surely if the victim had been floating in the surf for any length of time. the bloodstains around the neck wound would have washed away long since.....
Okay, am I the only on who thought the idea of moving Daphne to a downstairs room (providing her assailant easier access) an incredibly bad idea?
I agree that the romance seems to be going way too quickly, and find it odd that Barnabas would invite Vicki to dinner. I mean, what's he going to say when she comments that he's not eaten anything? Will Vicki just simper when he says her beauty has robbed him of his appetite?
Poor Barnabas, I love how helpless and pathetic he becomes when he espies Sarah, unfortunately, the mood was broken but the overacted "I CANNOT HELP MYSELF! MYSELF! Myself... myself....." It would have been much more effective if it had been played more subtly, but one cannot fault the actor for that, but the director.
Overall, better than part 1 and the two together are better as a whole.