The opening scene was identical to the last scene of #928 (same director, too), so I don't know why they bothered to reshoot it, although I thought the 2nd time turned out better because the performances were toned down.
What will Julia think when she finds out that the Todds accepted Carolyn's dinner invitation even though Philip was very clear in his instructions to her the day before that Carolyn and the others at Collinwood were NOT to phone or contact them in any way?
Philip to Megan: "We're gonna need a bigger bolt."
Okay, he never said that because I made it up. What he really said was, "I'll put a heavy bolt on the door," but I like mine better.
Paul to Carolyn: "You know that doctor they got for me?-- he's a clever one. He's been putting the medicine in my food."
Paranoid much?
In the previous ep, Megan realized that Professor Stokes might be dangerous because she could "almost sense those things about the Others." In this one, she picked up that Barnabas was somehow different, asking if he was feeling well but looking dissatisfied with his answer. Megan has a super power!
It seemed pointless to have Paul find the gun that had been stashed in the drawing room when they could just as well have had him arm himself when he searched the desk in the antique shop. But the writers probably forgot that Megan kept a loaded gun in there, and I only managed to remember it because I'm scary that way. Just don't ask me what I ate for breakfast because I probably forgot.
the whole world stands to be overrun with Leviathan Snake People! Ugh….I hate snakes.
Oh me too. But while I would call the Leviathans a snake cult, I don't think of them taking on the form of snakes. For me, their worship of snakes is part religion, part symbolism, the latter explained by Adlar a while back when he said that the Leviathans were forced to wait "silent as the serpent, swift as the snake" for their chance to come into power, and also because the snake, as Lydia alluded to, is a symbol that represents rebirth (much like the Death card in a Tarot deck). As to what forms they do take, Adlar's description that they were demons, fiends and creatures of the night is not pleasant to contemplate.
Phillip yells, "Get back to your room!" and I imagined his following that with more stern warnings, like... And stay dead, young man! ... and... Don't make me come up there and kill you!
Good one Barnabas, just stand there staring through the Drawing Room doors at Paul Stoddard as he's trying to sneak out unnoticed...
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Liz: "Barnabas, who is in the foyer?"
Barnabas: "No one. I was just looking at the time."
Yes, the time on the foyer clock, bounced off an orbiting satellite and into his view.
Magnus said that Michael's terror was due to having to experience something resembling a real death, and MB suggested that Michael was showing his fear of taking the next step in his evolution, and I have yet a third interpretation (it's all good!) of Michael's intense reaction when he learned that he had to stop being Michael-- that he panicked at the thought of not being able to spend the time leading up to his next transformation in human form-- interacting with people, seeing Carolyn, being bratty and throwing his weight around-- and of having to endure the loneliness of the boarded-up room.