Don't feel bad Magnus -- my reaction after reading the posts was WHAT vanishing staircase (and I just saw the episode earlier today).
and Taeylor -- I thought it was Joan, too, and I have the DVD. Must be something other than your tape quality. SNICKER -- you noticed that about Wolfie's shirt too. Obligatory Himbo beefcake.
Note the other example I put in my comments below.
We open on wolfie, sprawled out on the top of the rocks, and Magda, approaching him with the gun. (Is this the first time we see a woman pull a gun on Quentin? We know it won't be the last....)
She goes through with it, and the werewolf grabs his chest as if the bullet hit him there.
Ok, her logic seems screwy. Killing Quentin insures the kids escape the curse? One would think it would move it right to them. Even if the pentagram is used exactly as she says and does protect the boy, the GIRL didn’t get a pentagram, so she would still pass it on , whether or not Quentin is alive – which is what we saw with Chris back in 1969. Seems they stayed consistant with the werewolf lore when they used it again in Leviathan. What Barnabas describes about Quentin healing if he transforms while the beast is alive vs him dying with the beast fits what was used later for Chris.
HUMPH – Barnabas has a nerve digging at Magda about “it only takes a moment for the future to be destroyed by one silver bullet in the hands of a gypsy”. Of course HIS constant interference has had NO effect on how events have been playing out.
<WHAP> He knows no more about how things need to go to “put right what once went wrong” than Magda does. And, sorry Barnabas fans, I think Magda is smarter than Barnabas….he’s just more accustomed to assuming he's always right, and everything will always go his way – not to mention blaming everyone but himself when things go wrong.
Again with the timing on the cock crow. Barn is still nattering on, and demanding that Magda keep the beast alive till dawn – which the cock says is now very close, so why the big production over what they’ve already discussed?
Oh oh, we’re back to a six cylinder gun, from which Magda’s lost a bullet. OI and again no one watches a dangerous person. Wolfie seems to have gotten his strength back, and right on the cusp of dawn is now on the loose again.
These people just do NOT seem to get the concept of locking creatures behind doors. May not stop them, but it would sure slow them down – which might be all that’s needed this close to dawn. LOL amusing in the transformation shot how you see so clearly that the werewolf’s brown eyes change to Quentin’s blue ones.
Snicker, his shirt sure got ripped up real quick. Even after being shot – twice – wolfie’s shirt was all buttoned up. Made me think of a scene in
Falcon Crest. All the regulars were in a plane crash. Every male who survived it had artistically ripped up shirts with bare chests showing. Yet one of the women was wearing a white dress white hose and stockings – and didn’t have a hair out of place or a smudge on her clothes anywhere. None of the other women had no much as a snag in their pantyhose either.
Quentin is now chasing after a crying woman’s voice instead of figuring out how to get back to the house unseen. Smart move <not>! Oh, but here he is sneaking in the front door. All the secret passages in that house and he comes in the way that’s most likely to get him seen by someone. And the crying has followed him, to boot – along with the very unwanted and possibly noisy enough to raise the house Dorcas. He’s still got some work to do on his compassion: no regrets, no apology, it’s all about “they mustn’t know”. Of course he goes for her when she won’t shut up, and finds out, as Nathan Forbes did before him that “you can’t kill me – I’m already dead.”
Uh, not to gross anyone out, but wasn’t it mentioned that Dorcas was ripped apart to the point where they spoke of “body parts”. Looks kind of intact to me. Also curious why she didn’t come haunt him before. If I remember right he killed her at the 1st transformation, and he transformed again the night after, which was the day she was buried. It took the ghost a whole month to find out who he was and come after him?
Of course the next scene is him in his room with the music and the brandy, hands shaking so badly he can’t tie the stock around his neck. The second round with Dorcas really does him in. Between that and the brandy he nearly blows the whole thing to Judith, who came to check when she heard him screaming (again, he’s supposedly off in his own wing, how did she hear him and get there that fast).
Maybe it’s the elephant in the room that neither of them will mention, but I would think he could have tried to convince Judith that Jenny was haunting him, and hung the whole thing about murderer, etc on that. Can’t really get a handle on what Judith thinks is going on, whether she pins it on what happened with Jenny, the drinking, or both. She does in all innocence set off his paranoia by noticing that he’s behaving like a cornered animal, and he’s terrified of letting her suspect anything. She really seems concerned about him in this scene, while he’s going off like an adolescent screaming GET OUT OF MY ROOM. Sense I get is she doesn’t leave because he’s being obnoxious and demanding it – she leaves because she sees she’s getting nowhere and gives up on trying to help. Wonder what she would have done if he'd opened up to her about what REALLY happened?
JUST what Quentin most wanted to hear out of a clear blue sky. The cousin he doesn’t quite trust telling him obliquely that he knows all about his curse. Good thing he’s both sober and not freaking out at this point, he has the presence of mind to deny everything. Barnabas boggles my mind. He apparently considers Quentin “foolish” (read stupid) for not trusting him and telling him everything, and not realizing that Barnabas is his “only chance”. And what information does he have that would lead him to trust Barnabas and know he’s there from the future to change things? Great, Barnabas, expect him to trust you just cause you tell him to, and tell him nothing much except you cant tell him much.
Good for Quentin, he mistrusts everything he’s being told, because he sees the real possibility of a trap. He tells Barn straight out that the hand of friendship could be hiding a knife. Since he doesn’t have any of the knowledge the audience does about what Barn and his motives are, this only proves he has a brain. He finally gives in, because he has no better options, but with his eyes wide open for something to go against him.
AGAIN with the conversations about curses and other incriminating stuff WITH A DOOR WIDE OPEN SO ANYONE COULD HEAR.
Now we go from bad to worse, with Barnabas being told by Judith about Jamison’s dream – that David Collins is dead.
Jeannie