Once again Barnabas's "My mother is dead because of you!" hit me right in the stomach.
As Nathan practiced with the crossbow in the study, I thought of a commentary I listened to recently, in which the director said, I think, that a candlelit scene was done solely with the light of the candles. Recalling it, I think I must have heard wrong - it couldn't be done with just candles, could it? - but that scene was quite dark. The study in today's flashback was by no means dark; the studio lights had it all lit up, and I thought that it would have been a more interesting scene if the lights had been turned down. Dan Curtis said that when he did the revival series he wanted to do it as people remembered Dark Shadows - much better than it actually had been - and today I thought that this was one scene that could have been improved, but it wasn't in the revival series.
It was good to see Ben Stokes again, and to think about how different he is from his descendant Timothy Eliot Stokes. If Professor Stokes were to see Ben, he would be interested in him and also amused, I suppose - but what would Ben make of the Professor?
