Whoever does the VO tells us only three people are at Collinwood now. He speaks as if one of them is Stokes, but I doubt he lives there. [spoiler]Quentin does, so he's the third.[/spoiler] Since he goes out of his way to point out that Carolyn is "mad", maybe he shouldn't single her out in that way, and give us the mental state of everyone. Carolyn is mad, Mrs. J is a no-longer-repressed hysteric, Stokes is sane but crotchety....
Carolyn to Barnjulia at open door of secret room: "I knew you'd come back here." Great moment. I love how even in 1995, Julia still pulls out the "I'm (we're) writing a book" story! No expiration date for that one, I guess! I wonder if after her disappearance in 1970, everyone referred to her as "That doctor who was writing a book about our family and gave us sedatives." I'll bet they especially missed the sedatives. [spoiler]Those who survived anyway...[/spoiler]
This storyline is drawing me in, and it made me wonder-- [spoiler]What would it have been like if they'd spent a full storyline in 1995 as with 1897 or 1795?[/spoiler] By the way, what's with all the fins de siècle in DS? What significance is there supposed to be to the end of a century? DS goes out of its way to time-travel amongst the closing years of three centuries. Wikipedia talks about degeneration, a great era falling apart.
They are making things creepier. For me, this beats flowers and twins, no disrespect meant to those who really like PT. That blue glow effect is great. I don't know, but this might be the kind of thing people actually describe seeing. Points off for the by-now obligatory music-box theme. You're not allowed to have a music box theme if no music box is in the storyline...
The lifelong Collinsport resident and cop sounds very Midwestern. *** It'd be cool if Julia had found in her closet in 1995 the exact same green suit she was wearing... [spoiler]It would have been a spoiler though. It would indicate that she does make it back to 1970. But then she presumably gets killed! Or driven off without her belongings...[/spoiler] Julia finds her medical journal in that "strongbox" (or fishing tackle box) in the armoir in her room... Did it actually find its way back there, in the same ineffective, highly-portable metal box, in the same piece of furniture?
End-- Julia's a cheek-clasping fraidy cat again! Grayson got across credible fear early in the episode; why switch back to the possibly-camp reactions now? [spoiler]Gerard face!![/spoiler]