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« on: March 10, 2008, 04:24:33 PM »
It's been a long while since I had the chance to watch the show. Last night for some reason I chose to watch this episode. I've seen it several times before, but this time I really enjoyed the back and forth between Barnabas and Julia. I loved how coolly Julia poured scorn upon the notion of Barn's "pangs of conscience" and how persistently Barn kept needling her until he wore her down. In that final scene at Windcliff, when she informed him that she hadn't made her decision yet, and he sort of faux-sweetly said, "You didn't need to," I loved how Jules looked at him with this "are you for real???" ice in her eyes. GREAT stuff.
But after watching, I realized that DS really does take place in its own little world. Willie was supposed to have been locked away for the murders of several people AND for kidnapping and terrorizing Maggie--face it, with a conviction like that, they'd have thrown away the key. On DS, it's just a little cat and mouse between Barn and Jules and the Collinsport Strangler is out for a little light housekeeping and a courtesy call on his former victim. Yikes.
John Karlen deserved an Emmy for his work on this show. What a powerhouse!
G.