DARK SHADOWS 494
DARK SHADOWS 494
“I don’t think there’s
anything like them in this world.”
Grayson. The narration tells
us it was a quiet day. Adam’s scars look, once more, lighter and less severe.
Willie brings food to Adam but Willie runs out. Julia vs Willie with Julia
threatening him. He mentions that he was better off at Windcliff but she counters
with the fact that if he goes back there, he will be there for the rest of his
life, with a report about how he can never get better. He says that is not
true.
Julia will go prepare more
food since Adam threw the food on the ground. Adam takes Willie’s button and
Willie realizes Adam likes shiny things.
Willie moves the seventh (I
think) brick down on the wall and opens (at one moment using his middle finger!
On the sixth) the secret panel to get the chest of jewels. He shows them to a
fascinated Adam and tells him that these belonged, once, to a lady named
Josette. Suddenly, a bright light goes on in the room.
NOTE: like my past self, I
hate Julia now. She’s a nasty woman threatening Willie that he will stay in
Windcliffe for the rest of his life. What a nasty lady. What gets me is that she
is just as much a coward as Willie is, at least in the past.
Willie muses that he once saw
the ear rings in the box on Josette but then tells Adam it was really a woman
named Maggie Evans, a lady that looked just like her. She lived here for a
time. Willie holds the ear rings up by his eyes in a strange shot, blocking
part of his face. He hits on the brilliant idea that he will give Maggie the
ear rings without her knowing. Willie laughs like a lunatic.
Karlen is excellent here,
musing about how he felt about Maggie and when he wanted to help her and how
she made him feel, the candles all lit. He goes from inspired to frustrated to
manic and all believably. He also gets an IDK to Adam.
Willie waits outside Maggie’s
cottage or house’s main room window in a shot we have not seen before from
outside the window looking in. The set looks nice. The multi colored Afghan is
on the sofa.
Maggie tells Joe she was
going to wash the brushes a while ago but Pop had a sudden burst of inspiration
to paint. Joe will clean the coffee cups. When the pair go to do their
chores…or Maggie to get ready and Joe to do the coffee cups…Mike shadow. Joe
moves off to the left (where the kitchen is?). Maggie does to but from the
outside POV so she’s really moving toward where we know Maggie’s room is so she’s
moving to the right from inside’s POV.
Willie comes in and puts the
ear rings in Maggie’s purse. Joe breaks one dish by mistake.
Willie comes back to Adam and
Julia later. He was gone for a half hour. Julia vs Willie over his whereabouts
and his muddy shoes. Julia reading lines from the teleprompter wile she once
more threatens Willie.
Maggie thinks Pop took both
sets of keys to the house so she and Joe cannot leave on their date. He
suggests her purse and she finds her set of keys AND the ear rings. Tail end of
Josette music box tune.
NOTE: that rail in the Evans’
cottage doorway that comes into the house: I don’t recall it ever being there
but maybe it’s always been there. It’s there now and noticeable.
Maggie thinks the ear rings
are great (and gets an IDK and Joe gets his own IDK) but also a bit sad and
that the person who wore them must have been elegant, rich but also sad. We
hear the Josette music. Joe claims Maggie is not without sentiment and also a
strong imagination.
She says something
otherworldly about someone, a man, a lover, looking at her with them on with
the deepest of love. Then, she hardly seems to remember what she just said.
When Joe expresses disapproval, because the
ear rings are not from him, she tells him that she loves a good book or a box
of candy as a gift over them any day. Sure.
“I feel sort of drawn to
them,” she says. Joe gets more upset as
she looks at them on her and in the mirror. Maggie says, “I don’t think there’s
anything like them in this world.” The music cue whirls into action as if the
record player arm distorts it on start.
Adam corners Willie into a
corner but when Julia comes in, Willie gets her to show Adam her necklace to
stop him. He’s taken all the buttons off his own coat and one off Willie’s. I
thought he took two off Willie’s. Willie lies that he’s not sure why he knows
Adam will like her necklace but the sub titles say he also said, “IDK,” but it’s
hard to hear him say that.
Willie runs out and tells
Julia that Adam should be destroyed. If not, he will destroy you, he tells
Julia, who counters that she doesn’t think that any more. He is intelligent and
has an alert mind. Willie doesn’t see that. Julia tells him, “It takes intelligence
to know intelligence.”
This is just one of her many
insults to Willie. She also says, as she goes up the steps, “We’ll give him the
calm comfort of your absence.”
She has left the music on
Lang’s tape recorder (reel to reel btw) to play for Adam as she and Willie go
up stairs. Adam hears Lang’s message.
“Julia, when you do the
experiment again, if both Barnabas and my creation live, if they both live,
Barnabas will be free and healthy, as long as Adam lives. Adam will drain
Barnabas’ affliction from him but will not suffer from the disease itself because
he lives. But if Adam dies, Barnabas Collins will be as he was before.”
Adam says, “Barnabas.”
Credits: the Evans’ Cottage window
from outside.
Gosh, someone kill Willie and
Julia. Both come off badly here, both come off as stupid, self absorbed, and
nasty. Barnabas is where? Maggie has something that she likes so Joe…gets
upset…and self centered too. Is there anyone likable in this? The writers seem
to purposely try turning everyone off to everyone in this show. Did they want
it to be cancelled? I can only guess they wanted conflict so put in the rough relationship between Julia and Willie and made it contentious. He's okay but she's annoyingly hypocritical and nasty, mostly to Willie but both seem cold toward Adam, even Julia who thinks he should not be killed as Willie believes. He wants to put a bullet in his head!
When Julia harangues Willie about leaving Adam alone, she takes several long looks at the teleprompter.
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