I find it hard to believe that Quentin accomplished anything by getting close to the wolf and addressing Chris, even at the cusp of dawn. Would he have been so brazen if not for the portrait? And btw, I'm not sure that the wolf wouldn't have killed Sabrina during the last full moon had Bruno not come along.
I agree with Magnus-- the dialogue became wonderful as soon as Chris and Quentin were put together. Kudos to Violet Welles for--
Chris: "I am what I am because of you. Now you owe me something. I want you to kill me right now."
and
Carolyn to Jeb: "I feel that I'm doomed to lose everyone."
and more! Taeylor quoted one of my favorites!
Chris to Quentin: "You didn't have an enemy that knew your secret."
Oh boy, did he ever!!
Chris Pennock made no attempt to wipe Stroka's spit off his face. That's concentration! And he did a great job with the incantation in the graveyard; however, it looked like he was staring in one place. Hmm. As soon as he looked toward the graves, it started to go downhill a bit, sigh.
Jeb: "...Five new souls for you to claim..."
I'm counting 6 enemies-- Barnabas, Quentin, Roger, Julia, Maggie and Willie-- so I must be overthinking it.
VO: "Bruno has replaced the silver bullets in Jeb's gun with ordinary ones..." ... and he has replaced Jeb's usual coffee with Folger's crystals!!
...
Lets' just be glad the first body part to emerge from the dirt was a hand... These guys are pretty stiff....
ROFL
Her betrayal triggers Jeb's first spark of a sense of responsibility... it makes sense. His "mother" betraying him forces Jeb to begin to get the idea of forgiving and mercy. He's motivated to search his head for a justification to forgive, and easily finds one... it was his fault. He never had the slightest motivation to do this with anyone before. And so starts Jeb's moral education, though I don't care one bit, since he's done so much crap to so many people already, and never even confesses.
I was surprised to hear him say "Poor Megan" (a woman he called expendable not very long ago), but I think that's the sum total of any growth I saw in him here. He already admitted that turning Barnabas was a mistake. He already stopped wanting to change into the creature because the thing was scary to Carolyn. And he's ready to sic zombies on his enemies, and I'm not sure that Megan's supposed betrayal was the only thing that set him off; he seemed pretty perturbed to learn that Quentin urged Carolyn to stop seeing him. What a big baby.
And this thing where the hands reach up out of the ground. I've seen it several times (on TV, not in real life, folks) throughout my many years and always wondered ...well, it always appears that they're buried in the ground sans coffin. I mean, if you're in a coffin underground, it must take an awful lot of strength to open that lid.
It scared the crap out of me in
Carrie because it was so unexpected, and yeah-- there was no coffin or official burial for that one to have us scratching out heads, plus we're not even sure if it was supposed to be real.
And that's why Jeb kissed Megan in a decidedly unfilial manner?
Well, I never said he wasn't a very confused guy...
It's just my take, but with this viewing I saw the kiss as more calculated than Oedipal, a proof of his autonomy. He said afterward that he was tired of having her think of him as Alexander or Michael, and told her that she didn't have the special hold on him that she did with them.
The hand poking out of Findley's grave belonged to Charles Rush, though he won't get to play his zombie. But we know that he can move about silently because we've seen him before as the Grant Douglas impersonator who walked around Collinwood and peered in through the window of the antique shop.
