Discuss - Ep #1069

Robservations #1069

Julia is capable of feeling sorrow over Carolyn's death, but she nonetheless has betrayed Barnabas to the Sheriff, who now, I assume, is playing the part that Edward Collins played in 1897: he is assuming that all of the evil of the past 25 years is due to the presence of the vampire.  And I imagine that Julia has told the Sheriff that she is in Barnabas's power, but that somehow he - the Sheriff - by virtue of being pure of heart was able to free her from Barnabas's power.  Or something.

When the Sheriff said, in frustration, that he wasn't a witchhunter, I suddenly imagined 1795 Trask in 1995 Collinwood.  Whom would Trask accuse of being the witch?  There are no lovely young girls - live ones, I mean - to attract his attention.

Gerard's quite a mystery at this point.  We don't know why he has taken over Collinwood.  When Quentin's ghost was haunting Collinwood, we knew right from the start that he was a Collins.  I think Elizabeth gave a short and incorrect biography of Quentin at the beginning of that haunting.  And since he was a Collins, we could imagine that he had something against the Collins family, because there are always strong emotions within families.  But we are not given any indication that Gerard is a Collins.  So what's he doing at Collinwood?  Just enjoying being evil, I guess, but why Collinwood?

Gerard let Carolyn live for 25 years, and only killed her when she became a threat to him, so he doesn't have anything against the Collins family in general.  He just wants Collinwood.  He didn't immediately resort to having Julia betray Barnabas, but instead had her encourage him to leave, and something she said today indicated to me that she understood that she would not stay with Gerard, but rather that she would leave with Barnabas.  He had Julia tell the Sheriff on Barnabas only after he learned that Barnabas was determined to conduct an exorcism.  So he's not being evil for the sake of being evil; he's just making sure that nobody gets in his way.  He's got Daphne sufficiently under his power, and Carrie did what he wanted.  It seems reasonable to suppose that Tad would obey him as well.  Gerard has his own little kingdom, and that, apparently, is all he wants.  It looks like a pretty dreary little kingdom to me, but I guess he would respond that my beloved little house looked like a pretty dreary little house to him.  I wish to state for the record, however, that no vampires have been destroyed in the preserving of my house.

Barnabas has been referring to the ghost by pet names like "evil man" (lol), and all of a sudden he asks the Sheriff, "Have you ever heard of a Gerard?"  Um, how'd he learn the name?  Everybody seemed too afraid to speak it, and I seriously doubt Julia would have defied Gerard by revealing his name.

We've heard the stories about the torrent of fan complaints when Barnabas turned evil while under Leviathan control, but was there any fan uproar while Julia was lying to Barnabas, betraying him left and right and smiling about it?  Shouldn't it have been just as upsetting?

Don Crabtree, aka Sheriff What's-His-Name, performed on Broadway in 42nd Street, and his wonderful singing voice can be heard in this vid on stage at the 1980 Tony Awards (it won Best Musical).  Crabtree played Dorothy's sugar daddy; he's standing on the landing of the stairs amd sings the lines "the rumble of the subway train, the rattle of the taxi" solo.  Also in the Broadway production:  Jerry Orbach, Tammy Grimes, and Wanda Richert as Peggy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuaoculKDg
Enjoy!  (I love this clip.)

Um, how'd he learn the name?

Thanks, I was thinking somebody must have said it, but I couldn't remember when.  For once, it seems there was a reason I couldn't remember.

We've heard the stories about the torrent of fan complaints when Barnabas turned evil while under Leviathan control, but was there any fan uproar while Julia was lying to Barnabas, betraying him left and right and smiling about it?  Shouldn't it have been just as upsetting?

Well, maybe, but it didn't last long enough for fans to get out their poison pens.  Anyway, it was always clear that Julia was obeying Gerard, whereas Barnabas seemed to be more independently evil for a long time during the Leviathan storyline.

7/70/70

You can see someone through the doors if you look closely! 

“But obviously…” I love when GH says that and makes the hand gesture.  To me these are some of the most beautifully shot episode and it almost seems like a magical time. The lighting, the camera work and angles, the acting and everything is really top notch in my opinion.I am still wondering where Julia is getting her sedatives!

Another wonderful performance on David Selby’s part and Quentin looks really cute and has a boyish charm about him in his suspenders. 

Julia is creepy and for me as a super Julia fan it’s sad for me to watch Gerard corrupting her soul.