GH got the name right in the redo:
Charles Delaware Tate.
Julia: "Where is the portrait of Quentin Collins?"
Monroe: "It was destroyed in a fire 10 years ago."
Wha?? He blew his line, right? Tate recreated himself 10 years ago; the fire we know about was in 1897.
Where did things stand at the end of 1897 for him? Was his talent restored, or not? The mediocre landscapes and non-immortality would suggest not.
Exactly. Though he was in denial about it in 1897, believing that Petofi merely discovered his talent, which of course wasn't the case-- Petofi had said he "supplied the talent that was lacking" to a "decidedly mediocre painter."
I keep wondering why he wanted to be Michael. He doesn't seem like the sort of kid who would want to be named Michael. It's not grandiose enough.
I think the name is pretty impressive. It comes from the Hebrew for God-like, and to Jews, Christians and Islamics, Michael is an archangel. To Catholics, he's the leader of the Army of God, and to Jews he was guardian of the Chosen People. (The title of King of Pop would not yet apply.
) But to irk the Leviathan Michael, one need only call him Mike.
Elizabeth's and David's idea of homage doesn't amount to much. No gold, no frankincense, no myrrh, not even a box of candy from Lowell Apothecary. Just "Nice to meet you, gotta go."
Giving homage-- couldn't that just mean saying hi and we're with you all the way?
Meanwhile, that deer's head looked sort of silly and flirtatious. Mind you, I'm not sneering at David's fears.
But I will, heh. Leviathans dole out the stupidest punishments, and David's seemed especially lame, particularly for someone who "lives in a world in which the supernatural is real and dangerous." He has been possessed and bewitched, spent a night in a mausoleum and has even been killed, so to be acutely aware of both the passage of time and some faces of inanimate objects shouldn't be scary to him. And he has seen Michael's real form already, so unless it has grown quite a lot, why would it be frightening now?
Michael Maitland's episode of
Emergency! from 1973 is available to watch on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/36210/emergency-the-promotion He shows up in the second half and seems very capable in his good-sized part as Joel Ferguson. His real hair, as seen on that show, was brown and curly. So his blonde, straight-haired look on DS requires some suspension of belief.