There was an unfortunate bit in the voiceover, when Jerry Lacy said Julia was laying in the lighthouse, instead of lying.
I'm surprised that I did not notice that and become irritated by it, myself.
Vampire staring contest, Roxanne loses. Hi Flora! Good point, Randall, said to Lamar: if Lamar isn't "at liberty" to say what the evil at Collinwood is, why bring it up? Trask wants everyone to gather at his feet and beg him--- oh please tell us about the evil, Mr. Trask!! Please!!
Lamar: "The Almighty will deal with his (Randall's) blindness." Randall: "The Almighty will have His hands full dealing with yours!" [spoiler]It's sad that so many sensible characters have been dragged into the Trasks' witch hunts. Countess DuPres, Randall...[/spoiler] Lamar, later: "Those who doubt the word of Truth are only a shade less guilty than those who defile it!" Lamar Trask, father of "zero tolerance"! All religious problems would stop if we could do away with "Doubt is evil, so never doubt."
Obvious fact #1 about witches: They're very clever and ruthless and powerful people, therefore it will have occured to them to put suspicion onto someone else. Why wouldn't they?
Obvious fact #2 about witches: The fact that witchcraft's going on doesn't
automatically mean that the witch is who Trask says it is.
Roxanne meeting Lamar... is this the big scene people are saying is classic? It's certainly nice to see. I really like Lamar's reaction after Roxanne says "You always said that you loved me, don't you remember?" I love that flummoxed expression, where he emotionally overloads for a moment! Homina homina homina!!!
[spoiler]I think 1840 just spun out of control because of[/spoiler] one of those little unpredictable verbal slips that are always going to happen in any situation eventually, at least one with secrets. Barnabas referred to Julia's attacker as a "person", then that got Randall's attention. Barnabas had to explain. Instead of shooting back with "I only meant that somebody or something attacked her, we don't know what..." Barnabas explained all about Roxanne's vampirism to Randall. [spoiler]This triggered many other events down the road.[/spoiler] It may be that Barnabas didn't feel he could claim it was all a mystery still since Julia was there as a witness. Really, I think it was a matter of a nanosecond sometimes not being enough time to cook up a good story.
Flora actually broaches the word and subject of "vampire" on her own! *** Why's Roxanne calling Lamar again so soon? She needs the vampire equivalent of Gatorade.
[spoiler]Another pivotal event: Barnabas will pay for[/spoiler] that vampiric controlling stare at Lamar at the coffin. Excellent moment. What did that feel like? What was going through Lamar's head?
Roxanne as vampire seems to be rushing by much faster than I remember.
