DARK SHADOWS 594
DARK SHADOWS 594
“Carolyn was dead. And now
she’s alive. How is that possible? How?”
Humbert. THE SAME STILL of
the house! Argh!
As Barnabas prepares to tell
all, I noticed a long scratch on the doors.
Carolyn asks why he is
staring at her like that and if he can speak. He nods no. That’s as funny as DS
can get! I think. He comes in and says, “It’s impossible,” but last time he thought maybe Julia had it
wrong, that she was not dead. She asks what’s impossible.
She tells him she only
fainted. He wonders what they will do now and she says, “I don’t know.”
Barnabas leaves and has a
voice over. “She…she’s alive. How is it possible?”
Blair acts like a TOMORROW
PERSON some six or seven years too early as he tells Adam, “I have special
powers.” This is how Carolyn is alive.
Adam: “I don’t understand
your powers.”
He will supply the life force
but Adam tells him there is no one as beautiful as Carolyn.
Blair touches Adam’s
shoulders as he talks to him. “You and Eve,” which might be the first time her
name is mentioned.
Carolyn comes to Adam and WHAT UP WITH HER
EYEBROWS IN THIS EP?
She seems to think nothing
happened to her other than she only fainted and she repeats this to both
Barnabas earlier and Adam now in his Collinwood room.
She says, “I’ll always
remember you.” She lets him hold her and
kiss her goodbye. Carolyn cries.
It might be 2: 40 am?
Adam asks where Julia is.
Barnabas: “I don’t know.”
Adam wants the experiment
done tonight.
Carolyn and Blair talk. He
needs her help in a ritual to summon a two centuries dead woman. Now, this is
weird. Is Carolyn under a spell? She seems to accept that Blair can summon a
dead woman’s spirit and in a ritual. She doesn’t reject him or this and will do
this for Adam. WTF?
The soundtrack is either so
old we haven’t heard it in a very long time or totally new. It works, too.
He takes her to a room
presumably in his house by the sea. It is the cellar. He shows her a painted
white circle and warns her that no matter what she is not to leave the circle.
If she does, the woman,
Danielle Roget, will kill her just because she enjoys the spectacle of death.
She left
There is evil laughing and
screams as she tries to frighten Carolyn and does a great job. Nicholas has to
stop Carolyn physically from leaving the circle and he seems to genuinely want
to protect Carolyn. Why? He makes her sit back down. There is something that
looks like blood on the floor. WTF?
We see a large TV camera on
the left.
Carolyn passes out. The
spirit appears and wants to harm the girl as it has done before and implies
strongly that Nicholas has summoned her before to kill girls and has summoned
her for no other reason. She wants to live again as Blair promises.
Though vague as Nicholas says
this time he has a reason. Isn’t summoning her to kill girls a reason? Has he
or has he not done that?
He wants her to appear at 3
as she was in life. She tells him she can only appear that way for a few hours.
She says, “I do not understand, you must explain.”
She wants to watch Carolyn
die. Blair will not let her and returns her to her grave, putting out the three
candles (to do so?). He’s summoned her before.
Carolyn gets up and wants to
leave. It is
At Collinwood, there is a
MIKE shadow. He makes Carolyn forget the screams and laughter of the evil woman
and the whole incident by commanding her to look into his eyes. He snaps his
fingers too to bring her out of his trance. She will forget tonight, forget the
experiment. She thinks he is looking for her Uncle Roger, remember him?
Blair kisses her hand. I
think she puts out the fake candles.
Barnabas voice over. He
wonders where Julia could be. Someone is behind him but also behind the door
with the blinders on them and moving around!
Leona Eltridge comes in and
introduces herself, “I…am…Leona Eltridge.”
It sounds as if she is on a game show, playing guess the real Leona.
Adam comes up behind her and tells Barnabas that she is the one, the one that
will provide the life force.
The subtitles get Leona’s
name wrong as Fiona.
Review: a strange episode and the Leona storyline seems to come out of the blue and it is kind of strange, odd and somewhat different. The actress is so stiff that it makes her scary as the character. A very awkward episode as if they are reaching for a new female villain and failing terribly.
DS every day:
Talking about his impending exit from her life, Carolyn tells Adam, “I miss you.” She means to say, “I’ll miss you.”
Nicholas reassures Carolyn, “You needn’t be afraid of nothing. I will protect you.”
When Nicholas carefully walks Carolyn back to her seat in the center of the circle, a camera briefly enters the frame on the left.
As Nicholas quickly puts out the four candles, one remains lit and has to be snuffed again.
In act 3, at the start of Barnabas’ scene, you can see a passing figure through the slats in the door next to him.
Behind the Scenes:
Old Inert Eagle is played by Erica Fitz, who appears in two episodes of Dark Shadows. Before this, she’d appeared in an episode of Hawk, a 1966 series which I was not previously aware of. It starred Burt Reynolds as a full-blooded Iroquois who works as a police detective in New York City. The episode that Fitz was in was called “The Shivering Pigeon”. Fitz also played a waitress in a 1968 episode of N.Y.P.D.
Fitz’s one film role was a small part in the 1969 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Hercules in New York. Coincidentally, Hercules’ romantic interest in the movie was played by Deborah Loomis, another Dark Shadows day player who appeared in summer 1969 as werewolf victim Tessie Kincaid.
A little sound effects note: When Carolyn calls to Danielle’s spirit, they use the same laughing sound cart that they often use for Angelique.
Also, in case you were wondering, the four unsolved murders in 1967-68 that Barnabas is responsible for are Jason, Dr. Woodard, Sam and Dr. Lang. Technically, Angelique killed Dr. Lang, and Sam was blinded by Angelique and then killed by Adam, but only after Barnabas specifically invited them into his weird schemes, knowing how dangerous it would be.
I’m not putting Tom’s death on Barnabas’ rap sheet, because that was Nicholas acting pretty much on his own. Barnabas is indirectly responsible
for Nicholas being in Collinsport in the first place, but he didn’t even know Tom. I’m also not counting the several unexplained cow deaths from early in Barnabas’ career.
Christine: Barnabas sure has come a long way. When are those two going to get together, anyway?
John: I had forgotten about Carolyn's M.O., where she hates someone until they they demonstrate they don't need/want her. I'm beginning to think that she's not so much under Blair's spell as she is falling for Frankenstein, as he threatens to walk out of her life. Just wait until Eve arrives and she really has someone to be jealous of!
Christine: I thought it was interesting the way Carolyn so readily agreed to participate in a ritual with Blair. His witchcraft makes me wonder where Angelique has been hiding lately. Did she run off with Jeff Clark?
John: It's been a while since a new character was introduced! I'm curious if Danielle will have history with Barnabas or Angelique from her French Revolution days, or if the writers just pulled her out of a hat to add a new supernatural flavor to the mix.
Christine: While Danielle Roget's pseudonym is listed as 'Leona Eltridge' in credits, I'm quite sure she introduced herself as Leona Eldritch, which I think may be a more appropriate name. Nicholas Blair seems to be the one who has Adam thinking his mate will take on the appearance of whoever provides the life force.
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