Discuss - Ep #1121

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Robservations #1121

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Re: Discuss - Ep #1121

[alwaysdavid]

Q is alive and learns that Samantha married his good friend Gerard. Now on a regular Soap this would have taken a year to play out. Tad is also alive but being nursed in Boston. Q laughs over the marriage and reveals he tried to reach her by occult means. The Collins' marriage appears to be unhappy. He slept in the basement. Gerard seems anguished over not being with Samantha. Is it love or money? Samantha decides to go to Boston to be with her son.
Suddenly we see Barnabas at Ben's coffin and he wants to see the body. Trask refuses and I keep thinking why is Barnabas not using his powers to get his way. Lots of talk about their Papa's. Don't care, but probably for some future plot point.
Back at Collinwood. Samantha and Gerard talk. He will annul marriage. Samantha see's a figure at the window. Barnabas comes in and sees Q and calls out his name. What happened to the cunning Barnabas of 1967. He claims he saw a drawing of Q that Carrie made. We haven't seen Carrie in ages. Barnabas later see's Daphne in the woods.

[Uncle Roger]

Quentin returns, though it's hardly a surprise to the audience. Samantha is in an awkward situation. She's gone from being a widow to a bigamist in very short order. This is a situation that has been a staple of soaps for decades but it doesn't work all that well here. None of these characters has been established well enough for the viewer to invest in them. Quentin and Samantha apparently had a very rocky marriage. It would have been interesting to see KLS play this out with Selby, though Vestoff is amazing here
Barnabas and Lamar snark off at each other, as to be expected. It would have made a nice change if the Trask wasn't the heavy here. Oh well.
Barnabas meets the Quentin of the week. It's an awkward situation, as Barnabas uncharacteristically fumbles a lot.
 Cliffhanger finds Barnabas spotting Daphne.