1970 Barnabas has made it into 1840 Barnabas. The way he said it - "finally" - makes me wonder if he had a little trouble getting there. Maybe the I Ching sent him to 1940 first.
Isn't Roxanne still Barnabas's slave? Why would she give him away? Does a transfusion break the connection?
A transfusion probably wouldn't do it, since it didn't ever change Maggie's state of mind. But the fact that the Barnabas who bit Roxanne is no longer the dominant force in the body of 1840 Barnabas (there's got to be a better way to write that, but part of the problem is that I don't know the exact status of the spirit of 1840 Barnabas) might well change things. And even if it didn't, she might give him away without meaning to do so. I remember that Maggie didn't give Barnabas away back in 1967, but there's a closer emotional link between Barnabas and Roxanne than there was between Barnabas and Maggie. So I could rationalize Barnabas's and Julia's worry about Roxanne, but something else surprised me: Barnabas's assumption that he was the one who had bitten Roxanne. It's a reasonable conclusion, given the situation in which he suddenly found himself - but he made it seem like more than a reasonable conclusion: he
knew. Maybe, then, the swapping out of spirits in Barnabas's body didn't make a difference, and he felt the link. And that's sort of creepy. He didn't bite her, but he feels the effects of it anyway.
What nice people Flora and Desmond are! They must be
very distant cousins of the Collinwood branch. And I enjoy seeing John Karlen playing the steady and stolidy son of the Joan Bennett's silly character after having seen him playing the immature younger brother of Joan Bennett's old maid character.
Golly, the ending with the Head is quite disquieting. Does Flora have intuition or is she just charmingly squeamish? I've got to say, we're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but if Quentin would like that Head, then he must be sort of strange.
