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  DARK SHADOWS 188   “The time has come for there to be an end to it.” “And what do you mean by that?” “Our situation has come to an explosive head.”   “With Laura, you can’t be sure of anything.”     Vicki gets an IDU when Laura tells Roger that she’s leaving without David.   As an aside, Diana seems to play Laura as slightly human and it’s terrific. She seems to look really concerned about leaving Burke when he knocks on her door and announces it is he. She also seems, in her own way, unless she’s just a really great liar, to love David in some alien phoenix way and perhaps not the way love is defined to human beings. Or maybe she doesn’t. Doesn’t love anyone and it’s all fakery and lies. It’s still difficult to know. Does she think David will be born into a new life in some other dimension after being BURNED ALIVE? Ewl.   Burke seems to think Laura’s tears are real and they look real. Thus, we may never know if they are or ...

  DARK SHADOWS 187   Burke: “I think we all agree that nothing is permanent.” Carolyn: “Not even death.”   Burke and Vicki both get IDKs. Burke also gets this: “I don’t even know what I do know!”   Vicki gets an almost I don’t exactly know, too.   David tells Burke the way to his room when Burke carries home and to it: straight ahead and then turn left at the corner. THEN, we see Vicki enter David’s room, which from the hallway angle we see is on the right.   The first minutes or so have some light issues as Carolyn comes down to the foyer and Vicki and Burke return from the Old House with David.     Burke drinks cognac. Roger drinks, too.   Johnson, the killer with a big mouth, is not seen but is talked about. She makes hot chocolate for David and also stays with him for a bit.   Roger and Burke working together to protect David is amazingly warm and clever. David gets an IDK and IDU while Burke gets anothe...

  DARK SHADOWS 186   Another terrific episode of DS.   In what might be a first, there is NEW MATERIAL before the credits and before the reprise. It’s difficult to tell but the reprise looks and sounds exactly the same…maybe…but of course, as mentioned, it happens AFTER some new material featuring David, Sam and Vicki who are waiting for Guthrie in the Old House.   Everyone is in top form and there’s not a flub in sight though Sam does sound as if he says, “I’m not sorry,” when he meant “I am sorry,” but it’s difficult to hear. There’s one bang from behind the scenes and some light or lights outside the Old House window but it could be the candles reflecting.   The rapport between everyone is wonderful here: between Joe and Burke at the Blue Whale and later at the Old House; between David, Vicki and Sam at the Old House; and…   …David Ford does a great job of conveying Sam’s nervousness. I love it when David wants to show Sam the rest of...

  DARK SHADOWS 185   “You really like this sort of thing, don’t you, David?” “Sure.” “Some people’s taste.”     I’d like to start a I Hate Mrs. Johnson fan club. She’s an F’C word here. Due to her Laura kills Guthrie. Her big mouth and her snooping and her gossiping to Laura does it all. It’s painful to see a horrid person like Johnson survive while a truly good character like Guthrie die because she opened her big trap and she doesn’t even realize she kills Guthrie through her gossip and she does the same to Dr. Lang later on in the series. She even tells Laura he is in his car going to get his tape recorder from the hotel. Mrs. Johnson. I HATE her. J   Johnson gets two IDK. David gets two IDK. David and Vicki in the first location work we’ve seen in a long, long time…go to the old house. Sam gets an IDK, too. We also see location work of the car that Guthrie is in driving away but it is too dark to see the driver. We also see it on the roads ...