Ang's dress looks sort of Victorian to my totally ignorant eye, because it's uncolorful I guess. Nice though.
Mr. Frid does the scream a couple of times in later years, but I think it's the context that made it greater here. I agree though, anyone who can act at all is amazing to me-- just coming across as if you're speaking naturally is way beyond me. I tried too, in some fan parody things.
I wonder what Corsican love entails. No explanation for the bite on Josette-- we're just expected to accept that their connection through love is so strong that she feels his pain. Not that they say this or anything. She didn't seem to feel his strangulation...
As for the inn bat, I think A was sending them out far and wide as her "eyes" to observe and search in this case for Josette, and one bat got lucky.