The voiceover said Barnabas and Julia are the only ones who know that disaster is coming. And I thought to myself: "That doesn't sound right." How do they know that their 1995 experiences were real and not a dream? And doesn't Quentin know, as much as they do, that they're headed for disaster? He may not be 100% sure - but are they?
Tad and Carrie kept saying, "Miss Daphne promised." Is that why they have to be a part of Gerard's plan? Did Daphne promise them as they lay dying that they would live again, and are Gerard and Daphne supernaturally bound by that promise?
Why does everybody say lilacs in that affected way? "Lilahcs" instead of "lilacks". I've never heard anybody pronounce it that way. I can understand Elizabeth and Barnabas pronouncing it that way (though I can't remember if I've ever heard Elizabeth saying it at all). But the rest of them? Even David Selby from West Virginia? There must have been a directive from on high. In episode 657, after Vicky made her final disappearance into the past (that's pahst to rhyme with lilahcs), her favorite perfume came back to haunt her room briefly, and it was lilac perfume. (Not jasmine, despite Vicky's adoration of Josette.) Mrs. Johnson was the one who identified the scent, and I don't remember being annoyed at how she said it, so I guess nobody was endeavoring to sound high-falutin back then.
Barnabas, in the hall, hears the whole Waltons-style goodnight business between Tad, Carrie, and Leticia, and goes back into David's bedroom to announce: "You are both possessed!" And Carolyn isn't possessed?
