Discuss - Ep #0734

Whoops, just saw this.  HUGS, SALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!  Sorry you had to go through that.

Jeannie

Thanks, Jeannie! 

----- Sally -----

I'm glad that Magda gave the brooch back to Rachel. Indeed, Magda did seem to have a soft heart for some people in some circumstances.

I didn't expect Magda to gave the brooch back.  It would have been so easy for her to say she had sold it already and hadn't gotten all that much for it.  Maybe Magda felt bad for Rachel because Barnabas had behaved badly to her.

I was surprised when I read the posts previous to mine in this topic, because the substoryline about Jamison being mistreated left me absolutely cold: it seemed a little too cartoonish to me.  And yet it resonated with people.  I guess I'm just lucky.  But I did think that, given the choice between being locked up in a closet (with books!) and being involved in whatever fate Laura has planned for the kids, I'd definitely choose the closet.

I think EmeraldRose may have missed a milestone here.  This was surely the first and possibly the only episode in which there were three people locked up: Jamison in the closet, Rachel in the secret room in the mausoleum (I'll bet Magda didn't show her how to open from the door from the inside, and I noticed that Magda didn't say anything about bringing a chamber pot to her), and Jenny in a basement room at Collinwood.  Granted, we didn't see anything of Jenny today - but she was still locked up, tending to her babies.   THREE people!

I was surprised when I read the posts previous to mine in this topic, because the substoryline about Jamison being mistreated left me absolutely cold: it seemed a little too cartoonish to me.  And yet it resonated with people.  I guess I'm just lucky.  But I did think that, given the choice between being locked up in a closet (with books!) and being involved in whatever fate Laura has planned for the kids, I'd definitely choose the closet.

I just said something about this in commenting on another episode, but to me the mistreatment of Jamison was pure Dickens by way of Bronte.  The nasty schools and vicious headmasters were bread and butter to Dickens. Trask is SO much like a character he might have invented. Then again, Dickens was into melodrama, too.  He was the soap opera writer of his time, and his cliffhangers were famous.

GREAT catch about the THREE people locked up in the space of ONE episode!   

Jeannie

Well, here's the milestone marking the first (and possibly only) episode in which three people were locked up - Jamison, Rachel, and Jenny. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Lydia.

----- Sally -----

Gregory Trask is the definition of pure evil in my book, as far as the human villains go. He's a sadist who hides behind a collar and black suit, enjoys torturing and tormenting poor children, intimidates those he has under his thumb and he has the nerve to call himself a Man of God. When in reality he's anything but. Some may find Trask cartoonish, but I don't...I find him frightening and scary thing is there probably are people like him who suscribe to his deluted and twisted way of thinking in today's world. Not just reverends, but teachers, parents, etc.

His attitude about children being animals who need to be taught be fear is truly sick. He enjoys power and he enjoys exorcising his power in the most despicable and inhumane ways. He wanted an excuse to come down even harder on Jamison and that's why he put the key in there. Even if Jamison hadn't stoled the key and left the room, Trask would have thought of something else to give him an excuse to punish the boy.

Sad part is, Jamison's suffering at the hands of Trask MIGHT have been avoided if Rachel had just come clean with Edward
and Judith. Maybe they wouldn't have believed her anyway but at least it would have shown that she had some backbone and wouldn't allow Trask to intimidate her anymore. Unfortunately that wasn't the case.