DARK SHADOWS 571
DARK SHADOWS 571
Briscoe. It is also
As the vampire fights ex
vampire, they bang into one of the poles and it SHAKES!
Barnabas yells, The light.
Frid is way over the top in
these scenes. He gasps, “It’s light! It’s getting liiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggg.”
Tom goes into his coffin.
Doesn’t he realize he’ll be killed? He’s choked Barnabas but not finished the
job of killing Barnabas?
Julia has on her in her bed,
an Afghan of some sort. It’s not the multi colored one or the same one we
always see, I think. Liz closes the curtains to two windows in the room when
Julia complains of the light.
Barnabas wakes up and looks
inside the coffin and wonders –in a voice over----if anyone looked at him this
way. Tom is breathing. Do vampires breathe? Doesn’t he remember Willie did
that?
He begins to stake Tom,
hesitating to do what he’s feared would have been done to him, sometimes he
even wanted. He stakes Tom and Tom yells. This whole thing is incredibly slow.
The coffin seems…too small.
Later, the body is to be buried (?). Blair watches Barnabas and when he leaves,
goes inside to stare at the coffin.
Julia’s fang marks are gone. She
sees this after Liz complies and brings her a mirror. She lies to Liz that she must have dreamt she
had a scar on her neck. Barnabas arrives. He asks Liz to leave them alone.
“I don’t understand. She
seemed as though she was dying and now she’s so much better.” Liz leaves.
“Thank you, Barnabas,” she
says to Barnabas and holds his hand.
“You’ve saved my life so
often, I don’t deserve thanks.”
Roger comes to the Old House
so Liz hides behind a chair in the
drawing room. When Roger knocks, the door moves as if it is already open or
extremely fragile. Inside, he calls for Barnabas and Loomis. Barnabas arrives
and we see a shadow of either a camera or a mike. Roger gets an IDK in about
Liz. He tells Barnabas he and the entire house has been up all night, worried
about Liz. Liz emerges from behind the chair and tells him he hasn’t been
worried and that he does not care (in truth, he DOES).
Liz vs Roger. Liz tells him
that he, Roger and Julia are involved in a plot to bury her alive via sending
her back to Windcliff. She tells him that Julia has her coffin ready.
Liz sends Roger in search of
the coffin…and Barnabas tells Julia that Tom’s staked body is still in it. Julia
says Roger must not see the body. “I know that but I don’t know how to stop
him,” Barnabas says.
As Roger talks to Liz and has
a close up, Louis looks at the camera.
Barnabas will go with Roger.
Why? What does he plan to do to stop Roger? Barnabas said he was going up to
see how Julia is and to get his coat but when he comes down, he does not have
his coat (it’s usually downstairs anyway) but Roger says, “Oh, good, you’re
ready.” Huh?
Blair comes to the Old House and enlists Liz’s help to see Julia,
despite Barnabas’ attempts to stop him. When Barnabas and Roger leave, iconically,
Nicholas Blair snuffs out two of the three candles (the tall one is already out)
WITH HIS MIDDLE FINGER by placing his finger on the candles!
In the woods, en route to the
crypt, Roger says, “I don’t know what to do about Liz.” Roger says he owes it to Liz that he go to
the crypt. Barnabas will not let him go alone.
Blair brings Julia flowers
and she thanks him but asks the real reason for his visit. Blair fakes his
concern but Julia feels she will be up tomorrow. They both know she has a lot
to do. Julia doubts his reasons for being her are about his concern for her. He
jokes that perhaps he is planning to be ill and wants to know she will be well
to help him. Huh?
His health comes up; he’s
healthy. She calls Nicholas indestructible. “I certainly hope so,” he smirks. He knocks wood three times.
He kisses Julia’s hand.
Barnabas, before they go
inside the crypt, tries to convince Roger that if there is a coffin, there is
no need to open it. He worries when Roger goes in ahead of him.
Roger and Barnabas find the
coffin gone and the crypt empty. Barnabas gets another voice over/internal
monologue.
NOTE: Blair gets Barnabas out
of a ham here as he will in the future in an even larger way (Maggie’s
remembering what Barnabas did to her and Blair makes her AND Joe forget). WHY?
I guess so he can complete his “Adam and Eve” project. Here, he has moved the
coffin with Tom’s body inside it (didn’t he turn to ash or something?) to keep
Roger in the dark. Barnabas voice over, “What does it mean? What does it mean?”
Liz flubs when she says, “Dr
Coughman,” and possibly with, “ask
Roger, ask Dr. Hoffman.” WHY does Liz,
now, believe that Dr. Hoffman WON’T lie to Roger? Roger knows Hoffman won’t lie
to him.
Liz says, “I…I don’t know
when it all began to change.”
Liz tells Barnabas that she
is all right other than believing she is going to be buried alive. Barnabas
tells her that he believes her.
Liz changed when Cassandra
came and this is acknowledged by Liz herself.
After lying to Roger about
Liz NOT seeing her in the crypt, Julia implores Roger to let Liz stay at
Collinwood. Julia and Barnabas wonder who took the coffin. Roger leaves Julia
and Barnabas to go back to Liz.
Nicholas’s name comes up but
they think it might be he who made Tom the vampire. Despite the obvious
connection to Blair, Barnabas states that the only one that knows about Tom
being a vampire is the vampire that made him.
“I must find that vampire
that made Tom Jennings and I must find him soon.”
In he credits, Joan gets (as
usual) the “…as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.”
Review: I guess it was the
time I watched this episode. I fell fast asleep and I never do that watching
TV. I don’t know but I find this fantastically boring.
There’s still a green stripe down the side of the frame for one of the three cameras. This has been happening for more than a week. I was hoping maybe they’d be able to fix it over the weekend, but no such luck. I don’t remember how long this goes on for. It’s one of the not-charming bloopers.
In act 3, when Julia thanks Nicholas for bringing her flowers, there’s a super-fast and messy zoom in on Julia’s face. The cameraman obviously thought that they had cut away to another camera, and was just lining up for the next shot.
Liz and Roger are arguing about whether she saw a coffin in the old crypt. With the word “coffin” on her mind, Liz says, “Ask Dr. Coff — Hoffman, she can tell you it was there!”
Julia tells Roger that there’s no point in sending Liz back to Windcliff if she doesn’t want to go: “If she doesn’t coop — want to cooperate, she won’t.”
this link to a blog seems to think this was a good episode and also notes Don didn't fit in the coffin which was made too small. Episode 571: Raising the Stakes | Dark Shadows Every Day
Dark Shadows Before I Die: Dark Shadows Episode 571 - 9/2/68
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