Well, I guess Blackwood ceased to be because his sketch burned.
Look ma, I'm jumping on the WP bandwagon slash juggernaut.
Trask thinks about the children he semi-tortured, imagines them calling "Let me out!" then immediately does so himself. That's very real.
I LOLed at Amanda portrait. I thought it would be the gun.
Nice moment of regret from Kitty regarding her gold-diggerism, and final reflective moment from Judith, where she appreciates her resolving to act, much like Judith herself just did.
More day-glo yellow-green note paper. I remember that.
We all need a Garth Blackwood to tie up the loose ends of our lives so neatly.
Greg Trask somehow rests in peace in Q's room for the next 70 years, whereas Quentin didn't. Strange. I guess Gregory did find peace at Collinwood! He must have gotten in some especially good meditation in that room before the end, in those quiet moments between screams. Or Primal Scream works!
Maybe our past life personalities are part "us", part not us... a lot may be lost in the transition between bodies. So maybe a past personality could "possess" a present one. Imagine a partial-you threatening "you"... disturbing. Talk about being conflicted.
Judith has a bow-tie on her abdomen.
Just saw "Of Human Bondage", about people being tied totally and completely to a love-object, no matter how unreciprocated or foolish it is, and this making sane people ignore all reason, while knowing better. That's Barnabas.
With the emotional deadening this neurological thing of mine causes, I keep having to use the music as an emotional "reset button" to reconnect me a little bit with what I'm supposed to be feeling from these scenes. The music is eternal; it seems to reactivate a slender thread that reaches back to my early days of watching. I'm glad that that's still possible.
Trask couldn't even wait till the last candle went out to use the gun... it made me think of a movie with Peter Sellers, a dead-serious one, where people hiding in a sealed bunker from Nazis live there for years after the last candle flickers out.
It's not Barnabas's fault, maybe, that Josette keeps pestering Kitty... would BC have accepted Kitty as herself? Maybe. He was still destructively clueless, as regards the intolerable pressures on Kitty at this point. Maybe most of us are like that.
KH entering portrait, it does give a sense of something big coming... and it's totally unexpected except that I knew it was going to happen....