DARK SHADOWS 592
DARK SHADOWS 592
“If she dies, then there will
be no stopping Adam. He will turn Collinwood into a blood bath.”
“Big cracks, all around.”
Nancy B. October 1, 1968. The
narration says time passes and we get THE SAME still of the house from THE SAME
angle. The sound effects are different in the reprise. The shots are different
slightly. Barnabas licks his lips here. Julia gets an IDK. Barnabas says to
Adam, “You may really may have something to worry about.” What?
One piece of equipment says
The waves on the screen are
different.
The opening is
Barnabas says, “IDU.”
Julia prepares a shot and
gives it to Carolyn and when she does not react, Julia says, “I don’t
understand it.” Barnabas flubs. Adam
takes Carolyn upstairs.
NOTE: Adam is really annoying
me here. This is all his fault and he keeps blaming Barnabas and Julia. I wish
they’d kill him.
Barnabas asks Julia if
Carolyn will be all right; Julia’s answer, “I don’t know. I don’t know any way
of finding out all the effects of the
experiment.”
Barnabas tells her that if
Carolyn dies, Adam will turn Collinwood into a blood bath. Adam gets a blanket
for Carolyn that we’ve seen in Vicki’s room. The Afghan. Adam teleprompter.
Seems to forget his lines. He also says, “I should never have let you go with
it.” Huh?
Carolyn moves and wakes up
and is in some pain. He asks what’s wrong and she says IDK. She tells him she
is alone somewhere in a cold room, the walls crack and fell down (what is this
the awful season five of NEW DOCTOR WHO?). “Big cracks, all around,” she says,
among other things.
Adam gets an IDU.
She sees fog and a clay
face, a hand, a foot, forms in the air:
a collection of dead things. Not sure what they were going for here but I
thought at first it was supposed to be her seeing through the mate’s eyes or feeling
what the body parts felt.
In any event, it’s one of
those very surreal DS moments. Were they trying to depict an afterlife? Hell?
Purgatory? She sees a skull with eyes left over from the dream curse perhaps?
More likely Carolyn detected
the mate’s separate body parts coming for her to take her life from her. Adam
yells he won’t let them do it but he’s responsible for all of this. He’s a total
moron.
These things were all waiting
for life or coming to take her’s. Carolyn wants to go to Collinwood and wants
to tell the others (or “them”) to take care of Adam. She gets cold. The pain
returns worse and she dies.
Julia comes in, sniffs, and says, “She’s
dead.” What is that shadow on the
window? A bike image? A clasp for the curtains shadow?
Adam leaves and tells
Barnabas. Barnabas says, “Oh my God!” He
yells at Adam that it is not just his loss, she was part of him, one of his
family. “I feel for her as you think you
do!”
He tells him it is his fault.
Finally someone has told the big idiot the truth: Adam is the one that Carolyn
into this mess! Jerk.
Adam says first he will kill
Vicki and then everyone in his family. Hey doesn’t that include Carolyn? They
fight in a fight that is not too badly staged, actually.
Barnabas is hit down and Adam
goes out, past Julia who is inside but at the front door. Barnabas comes up and
tries to pursue but cannot. He also feels he cannot just sit there and do
nothing but he’s hurt. Julia offers to go but he tells her she was stopped once
before. Julia goes up for her bag and finds…that Carolyn’s body is gone. She puts
her hand to her mouth. Someone also seems to have made the bed.
Pretty shocking, creepy, and
surreal, also engaging in a way. Adam is VERY annoying now and it’s hard to
forgive him for this and for his lack of vision to see that he’s the one
responsible. He’s a jerk.
Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
In the reprise of yesterday’s experiment sequence, the camera pointing at the oscilloscope is out of focus. Julia asks Barnabas to keep an eye on the “sine waves” to make sure they don’t collapse. This only barely made sense yesterday, when you could actually make out the wavy lines on the readout. Today, it’s positively baffling.
Julia checks on Carolyn, and says, “Her pulse beat is decreasing.” She’s said this before; I think she’s trying to make “pulse beat” a thing.
When Carolyn is lying in bed, Adam says, “Carolyn — I should never have let you go with… it.”
In the bedroom sequence, when Carolyn says, “Then it didn’t work, and you don’t have your mate,” there’s a lot of studio noise, with people shuffling around.
Behind the Scenes:
There’s an extra treat for the prop-spotters today: When they’re upstairs in Josette’s room, Adam drapes the Collinsport Afghan over Carolyn. This brightly-colored knitted shawl is usually seen at Maggie’s house, but it’s also turned up recently in Liz’s bedroom, and on Joe’s bed.
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