DARK SHADOWS 481
DARK SHADOWS 481
“You have no idea of her
powers. None.”
Lara. Reprise but is it
different? I think so. Julia voice over. Barnabas and Lang hear what Julia is
doing. Barnabas calls to her, “Julia! Remember. Remember someone.” WHAT? Eric has to read Frid’s line to him,
“Dave, Julia, remember Dave Woodard.”
Barnabas tells Lang to put the gun away.
Barnabas then remembers his line and says the same thing. She puts the phone
down and opens the door, telling Barnabas he always wins. He tells her they can
always checkmate each other. Julia says, “I seldom stop you.” Eric Lang tries to convince her about his
experiment. Lang says, “Think Julia…” and then…there is a kind of jump in the DVD
or in time or something is cut.
It is the first of a few more
jumps or skips. As Julia turns his back on him, he takes the gun out and
Barnabas sees this as he tries to convince Julia not to say anything. She makes
him give his word not to have Lang kill anyone else. Lang can create the face
the way he created the body. Before she leaves, Julia says she will do
everything to stop this experiment. NOW WHY TELL THEM THAT? Just do it.
Back of Collinwood at the
fountain area: Julia vs Barnabas, lite. He says, “…unless of course, you
consider me a monster, I’m sure you do.”
He looks down.
It seems in the past he mixed
these guilt feelings with manipulation but he actually now seems to be really
self depreciating instead of mixing it with manipulation. Julia seems to almost
claim that, “You’re not a vampire now.”
This might be the first time
she’s said the word. He feels it is not permanent but she tells him that with her
and Eric working together they can remedy that and control him. Barnabas flubs
as he says, “…crossroads in the the the dead of night.” He figures they can catch Angelique. If not
he will be in constant fear of her if he stays here, this way.
Although I want to ask WTF
he’s talking about. Cassandra is outside the flimsy iron gate, listening. There
is a jump in the picture and it seems dialog is missing. Julia wonders where he
will live in a new body. No one will know him. He can’t stay here and will have
no position here, no money. He will leave his wealth with Julia and she will
keep it for him. THIS IS INTERESTING despite everything else, he and she seem
to have cemented some kind of closer friendship, their past previous fights and
conflicts (nay, murder or insanity) forgotten completely or almost completely.
Barnabas knows Cassandra is
listening so sneaks up on her and grabs her arm. She gets an IDK. He calls her
Angelique but she keeps in the Cassandra persona, “Stop calling me that!”
As they struggle, the bush
behind them and the iron gate both sway at various times as if to fall down.
She tells Julia he’s insane and no one else sees it but her. She breaks free
and runs for the house, Julia stopping Barnabas from chasing her.
Cassandra is…somewhere in
Collinwood…there is a long window and drapes flowing but it does not look like
the drawing room or the back window. She uses a candle and calls Tony to her.
At the end of the scene just before the music rises to go into a commercial
break we hear a bump like sound.
Tony was driving back from
Rockport or Brockport when he was summoned here. He asks if Carolyn is all
right and he knows somehow that Cassandra summoned him. He is uncomfortable
meeting with her. She gets another IDK.
She insists they are doing
nothing wrong. He won’t look at her until she makes him and she will command
him to do things and he shall not remember. He gets an IDU.
He resists and heads off but
her hand out stops him. He can’t move or speak. “Do not make me angry,” she says years ahead of Bill Bixby as the INCREDIBLE HULK. She uses
him because she likes his eyes and because she is reminded of Rev Trask, whom
she wanted to use but at the time it was not safe. She wants from Eric Lang
what she calls a medallion—the talisman. He guesses what it is but she calms
him but also tells him he will not be able to sleep until he gets it for her
and she has it in her possession. She tells him to make it look like a common
robbery. She kisses Tony. Now that I can’t understand. Is that more magic stuff
to exert more control? Or is she just pleasing herself?
While on the subject: is the
curse totally gone? I mean he is not a vampire now…which is odd for the show in
itself (to see him in daytime or morning scenes) but what about the factor that
anyone who loves him shall die? Is that bit gone for good now too? It seems
that the curse is more than just one curse. It’s sort of two fold and when it
comes back, will it be one fold?
By the way,
Angelique/Cassandra asks Tony some four times or more if he understands. Only
Lara can do this stuff and make it still intriguing. One need only look at the
horrid soap STRANGE PARADISE to see that and how those performances pale before
the likes of Lara and Grayson and Frid, even with flubs. Lara is great! She's haunting,
haunted, and menacing here.
Barnabas is in a new robe: a
purple one as Lang knocks on his door. He has had a message on his answering
service that Barnabas has had some kind of accident. He says it said “Mr.
Barnabas.” Barnabas recognizes the tactic as Angelique’s and tells Eric that
she may be listening to them right now and even without them seeing her. He
tells Eric he doesn’t know the immense power she possesses. Eric gets two IDUs.
Barnabas gets a IDK. Eric’s an idiot. He left the medallion that protects him
from her in his desk at home. The pair rush to Lang’s house but Barnabas has to
change first.
Tony finds the talisman at
Lang’s desk after getting into the house. Soon it is in Cassandra’s hands. She
talks to herself, “He won’t save Barnabas from her. He won’t even be able to
save himself.”
A good ep but again, it’s like
the Angelique show but now I don’t find that a bad thing. Frid and Grayson do a
great job of relating as friends now and it sooo works. Cassandra in her guise
is interesting.
1795 allowed for the “reboot” of the Barnabas less so because they completely changed Barnabas’s character but more because they changed the Barnabas/Julia relationship. Previously, it had been more of a complex chess game –mutually distrustful and physically abusive (though the latter is usually frowned upon in most chess matches). Now, Barnabas trusts Julia when a big part of the pre-1795 episodes is that he considers her a threat to his existence and to his relationship with Vicki.
You’d mentioned that it was possible that Vicki returned to a “different” 1795. That’s a very plausible theory when you consider Barnabas and Julia. For instance, we can imagine that they still conspired to kill Dave Woodard but that it might have played out differently — less overtly blackmailing Julia and Barnabas being less clinically psychopathic about it.
The vampire Barnabas of 1795 (and the later storylines) is selfish, at times vicious, and often bites/strangles first and asks questions later, but he’s far more complex than the cold, calculating villain of 1967.
Both Barnabas and Julia are also far more concerned with the Collins family, beyond their own self-interest, than they were pre-1795. When Lang originally “cures” Barnabas, there is a gratitude expressed that I could not imagine the 1967 Barnabas even feeling. Or when Barnabas even suggests that Lang “do no more for me” when he suspects that Angelique might try to stop him.
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