Discuss - Ep #0012 (AKA The Flapping Threads Ep)

[Watching Project]

Robservations #12

[Janet the Wicked]

Carolyn, the teenage meddler. Why does she send Vicky off to see Matthew when she knows “he’s not very friendly”? Why Vicky has this need to know thing about Roger and Burke is beyond me. Why should she care? She should be upstairs hitting the books with David. That’s what she was hired for.

[DarkLady]

Very true, but Roger is so cheerfuly when he tells Vicki the story of Widows Hill!

I believe this is the positively last appearance of Maggie's brassy blond wig. But dig those stovepipe pants all the men are wearing!

Carolyn's meddling doesn't stop with Vicki--she's brought Burke home and stuns Roger with the news that he's in the drawing room with Elizabeth!

Meanwhile, poor Maggie is desperate to help her poor pop.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

1966: Ep #12 - Roger: 'The ghosts of the past are always
frightening.'
(Not to mention flapping threads.  ;-))

[Janet the Wicked]

I wonder if Roger ripped that button off.

[MagnusTrask]

During VO:  Is that supposed to be a close-up of the same outer wall of Collinwood that we are to see almost every day of the series?

Roger's good telling the story (Wailing Widows).  What is it that wind passes through, in order to make that sound?

I paused the disc just before Roger's about to enter the Drawing Room, without knowing Burke's in there.   I guess I remembered that he veered away at the last second.  I expected that when he finally went in, we'd see that mortified look, but instead, he looked deeply sad, as if he were about to be shot, and couldn't avoid it.

[Lydia]

Maggie Evans seemed like a completely different character today from the coffeeshop waitress we've seen so far.  I realize people are different when they're with different people, but she seemed to have a different core altogether.

Both Roger and Carolyn referred to coming "down" to the cliff.  It makes sense in terms of how the landscape has been described to us so far, but not in terms of how they talk about it in the future.  But that's the future.

Oh, goodness, Vicky's silly, pretending to Roger that her having a cup of coffee with Burke doesn't mean a thing.  She knows better than that.

Why Vicky has this need to know thing about Roger and Burke is beyond me. Why should she care? She should be upstairs hitting the books with David. That’s what she was hired for.

She needs to take Jane Eyre off the bookshelf and discover just how much time Jane spent with her student, Adčle.

[Janet the Wicked]

What's up with Sam's shirts? Why are the sleeves so short? Or maybe he has really long arms.

[alwaysdavid]

Maggie seems to have disposed of the "Eve Arden" persona and taken on a tearful and helpless quality to her character. 
Roger really should call them wives of the fishermen until they know for sure the ship went down and all were lost.  Vickie once again brushes aside any thought that there could be supernatural events going on at Collinwood.  Perhaps that is why later she goes around not understanding because she can't fathom that there are such occurrences.

[loril54]

The Collins have a problem, with their Widows Hill, stories. Are they still deciding what to tell.

Of the people in the Trio, I feel the worst for is Sam. He is sure the one that has not benefited to much by the events years ago.

Roger is the one that I believe is the most evil, in his actions. Maybe that is how the story had started out. Roger was the ne'er-do-well brother and uncle, and father.