DARK SHADOWS 185

 

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 and at least one car pass by. At one point when Sam and David, at the Old House, Sam there for the first time, Vicki seems as if she’s being possessed.

 

I like how Vicki tells Laura as she leaves the house with David that soon they’ll know everything.

 

Other than that, it is a shame to lose Guthrie but he had to go for this show to continue. A lot of supernatural shows use the same thing after this: cars out of control by supernatural forces, a fire that seems to not to be a natural fire, and the spell that Laura does. DS often repeats the spell routine but usually with Angelique.

 

A good episode with a shocking ending thanks to the big mouth Mrs. Johnson, the hag. You think she’d know better than to tell Laura anything.

 

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185

      A good fade out from house to Guthrie's face to Laura's attacking face.

      The reprise might be a little different and there's some new stuff before

      the theme tune. Guthrie hugs David, begging him to help him. David seems

      be the reason Laura calls off the attack and Guthrie tells the confused

      boy that he was saved by David. David tells him about Josette. Guthrie

      tells David and Vicki that David is the key. WHAT? Is David like Dawn from

      BUFFY? No, sorry, couldn't resist. We KNOW he's the key! Guthrie tells

      Vicki to take David and wait for Joe to bring Sam...Guthrie himself has

      things to do! WHAT? He has to go to his hotel to get the tape recorder and

      his notes. Later, David has finished his homework and he and Vicki are

      about to go. Laura just walks into the house and tries to get David, whom

      Vicki left in the foyer ("Now just stay here, okay?", the dumbo), to spend

      the night with her at the Cottage. David tells her everything he knows:

      that Vicki at Guthrie's suggestion is taking him someplace and it's a

      surprise. When Vicki return, she levels with Laura and tells her that

      "very soon we may know everything." Well, I wouldn't bet on everything but

      more...

 

      Now the evil Mrs. Johnson...whom I now hate thanks to this scene...and I

      don't know if I can ever get over this about this naggy, annoying

      character...tells Laura what she knows: that Guthrie, Vicki and Sam are

      going to the Old House to use David in a séance...AND that Guthrie is

      driving to the hotel to get his notes and tape recorder. She's annoying,

      naggy, and gossipy and thanks to her GUTHRIE is going to DIE! I hate Mrs.

      Johnson. She knows there's something not right about Laura and knows how

      Roger feels about her and yet she still tells her anyway and I believe

      even Guthrie told Johnson to keep David away from Laura if she could. The

      b*&^% directly (?) causes Laura to kill Guthrie and the info gives Laura

      the chance to do it.

 

      OUTDOOR STUFF: we see Vicki and David walk to the Old House in what looks

      like stock footage we've seen before. Sam arrives and for some reason, Joe

      leaves again. Or least I think he does. While Sam talks to David, for some

      reason Moltke or Vicki starts reacting badly...as if in a trance or

      possessed already...or maybe someone farted, I don't know. Anyway it's a

      strange look on her face that makes me wonder if something was cut on the

      spot (and I do and don't mean a fart). This is Sam's first time at the Old

      House and he hopes it is his last. It won't be.

 

      We view Guthrie get in his car (a set) and drives off. It is seen on the

      road (possibly stock footage of Roger in his car; stock from the early

      eps!). Guthrie sees a bright light, then flames. I guess that Laura is

      also attacking his mind because when the flames come about he's not sure

      why there should be flames...and he should know. So I'm guessing that

      Laura has made him forget about her powers while attacking him with the

      bright light in his face...and in the next ep or maybe this one, he also

      states that his brakes don't work. It seemed earlier that he could have

      stopped the car from the bright light and gotten out. In any event, this

      whole car thing is most disturbing for what it means rather than its

      execution. Still, daytime is brave to do this kind of thing, it just

      wasn't done before and most daytime soap back then were not this

      ambitious. "Why should it be like fire?"

 

      Back the Old House, Sam asks David, "You like this stuff?" David tells him

      he does. Sam scoffs but laughingly it seems, "Some people's tastes..."

 

      I must stop and say that Sam paired with Vicki and David makes him almost

      likable and happy!

 

      In any case, the car crashes and seems turned on its side or

      upside-down...it's hard to see to be honest. Laura makes a fire start in

      the wreck...this seemed to be a weekend (a Friday) and the cliffhanger is

      resolved...by us finding out Guthrie is dead!

 

      A good episode as Vicki confronts Laura, Laura kills Guthrie, and David

      and Sam meet at the Old House and the one that shows Mrs. Johnson for the

      liability that she is. Thing is: I doubt anyone ever finds out that she is

      responsible for Guthrie's being killed by Laura. She sucks!