DARK SHADOWS 600
dark shadows 600
“She must have been a very
unusual person.”
“Yes, I believe you could
truthfully say that about her.”
“Someone in this house is
doing to die! Tonight!”
“Neither of us is a match for
Nicholas BLAIRRRRRRRR.”
“Julia, it’s happening! The
spirit of Philippe Cordier is killing Adam!”
Marie Wallace. No reprise.
Julia: IDU. Barnabas: Nor do
I. They are talking about Maggie and her forgetting.
Barnabas tells Julia and
flubs at “she found out.” He also flubs by saying someone told us where she was
(it was Joe). Clunk.
They figure Cassandra told
Blair about everything that happened in the past. Flub.
Barnabas figures that it must
be Adam that made Blair help him. He knows if Adam is in danger than Barnabas
is in danger.
Julia wonders why Stokes is
not back yet. Barnabas flubs at “Must’ve known.”
Barnabas also says let us
hope what we suspect isn’t true and that
Adam and his mate have left….
It has been 24 hours since
the experiment and Adam does not look happy according to Blair. Adam asks why
Stokes told him Eve was no good for him. “I am sure I do not know,” Blair lies.
Adam wants to know about the
unusual Leona Eltridge and when Adam calls her a very unusual person, “She must
have been a very unusual person.”
Blair says, “Yes, I believe
you could truthfully say that about her.”
Adam tells Blair about the
ghost. Eve overhears. She does not like this place, she later tells Adam, who
has been told by Blair that the three of them will leave soon. Adam asks if she
is happy with him and she asks if that is a fair question. Adam says IDK.
NOTE: Adam talks like he was
THERE and present in the room when the ghost appeared but…he wasn’t.
On another point, Adam, when
looked at from another POV is being very unfair and evil toward Eve wanting her
to like him when she…should have her own mind. And make it up for herself what
she wants to do and who she wants to like. It’s a given that the show says Eve
is evil but from what we see here and in other episodes, she’s just cranky and
unhappy, even if nastily so.
It can look like she is being
used and abused by both Blair AND Adam while also not on the favorite list of
Stokes, Julia and Barnabas either, yet since her birth, which was only a short
time (but later too?), she’s not done more evil than say Blair, Adam, and Julia
and Barnabas themselves. In fact, they’re all more evil than she is.
Adam strokes her hair and declares
she is meant for him but she tells him that she does not want to be owned like
property and that she wants to be alone to think about things. She tells him he
looks tired and should go upstairs and sleep. He does not want to leave her
alone but she insists, she wants to be alone.
Alone, as she wants it, Eve
stabs a letter opener into a table. Blair is there suddenly. Eve likes him but
tells him she thinks Adam is ugly, boring and stupid.
She thinks Blair is
intelligent, exciting. She comes onto him and puts her hands around him. Blair
likes Eve, evil from head to foot. She hates Adam so Blair tells her to hate
him all she wants but just do not show it. He will not tolerate her defiance
and he threatens her.
Stokes comes to the Old House
and the haunting starts again. Julia puts her hand to her mouth (Julia-ism).
A book pops out and they find
out that the ghost is Philip Cordier from 1798.
Stokes suggests a séance and
soon that happens. As a candle goes out, the sound of someone blowing it out
can be heard. Barnabas speaks French in a hilarious sequence as Philip uses him
as a medium.
The ghost talks out of Frid’s
mouth (his bottom teeth being quite the scariest thing in DS) and tells them
that Leona is at the House by the Sea and he will get revenge on the man who
took her there: Adam!
Leona Eltridge is the
reincarnation of Danielle Roget. Okay, HOW? Didn’t Blair just conjure Danielle
up? Didn’t he make her become human for the short time she said she could be
human? So was the ghost a quickie reincarnation?
While Stokes, Julia and
Barnabas talk about all of this, we hear someone banging around off set.
The clock on the Old House
fireplace seems to say
When the show returns, Adam
is talking but we hear no sound. He claims to Eve that it was wrong of him to
make Eve love him so soon.
Eve feels the haunting. Adam
asks what’s wrong. Eve answers, IDK and is afraid.
A storm has come up. Philip
haunts the house by the sea, making Eve flee, saying, “Someone in this house is
doing to die! Tonight!” Stokes had left
the Old House by now. I think.
Adam starts choking; Barnabas
starts choking just as he is saying to Julia, “Neither of us is a match for
Nicholas BLAIRRRRRRRR.” It’s quite
hilarious.
Review: So 600. Not quite the
epic you’d think but it has a séance, THREE villains, FOUR if you count Phillip
and his odd “revenge”, three so called heroes or anti heroes in Stokes, Julia
and Barnabas, the Old House and even a séance. The only thing missing is
Collinwood.
Eve already bores me and is
annoying. Her endless scenes with Blair are not quite terrible and dull yet and
in this episode he flares alive and Humbert does a great job. He can ALMOST
hold the show on his own at this point.
And Eve never fulfills the
“most evil woman ever known” Leona/Danielle premise/promises as she really
doesn’t kill ONE person. In fact, she’s used by all the men: Adam wants a mate
and wants her to love him no matter what; Blair has imbibed her with the “most
evil woman that ever lived” energy, wants her to breed with a man she hates and
finds ugly, threatens her constantly; Stokes and a few days or eps later,
Julia, too, wants to kill her; and Jeff/Peter despite being saved or almost
saved by her, rejects her; and finally Adam strangles her out of jealousy.
Eve from what I recall killed
no one and other than having a nasty attitude and playing with a letter opener
in Blair’s house and planting it in a table, did nothing other than break up
Jeff and Vicki’s wedding plans (Vicki should thank her). And she did that for
love!
Instead of going full Hammer
Horror with Eve, they went in the victimized woman path.
Barnabas tells Julia about looking for Maggie: “Well, when we came back from the — searching, someone told us that Maggie was at home, and wanted to see us. We got there, and she greeted us as though nothing had happened. Obviously, she — her memory of what had happened was completely gone.”
At the start of act 1, there’s a little blue spot reflected in the lens of one of the cameras. It stays visible through the first scene.
Barnabas tells Julia, “If he did erase Maggie’s memory, he must have known — he must have done it knowing he was helping me.”
This is one that you probably wouldn’t have noticed with 1968 TV reception, but it shows up on DVD: When there’s a close-up on Eve, you can tell that her eyebrows are painted on, and there’s flesh-tone makeup covering her real eyebrows.
Professor Stokes tells Barnabas and Julia, “I went to the place where Adam’s been hiding for the last few months,” but two episodes ago, Carolyn was angry that Stokes had told Barnabas where she was keeping him. So why is he still acting like it’s a secret?
At the start of act 3, Stokes has trouble snuffing out the candles. This is a common problem on Dark Shadows.
During the seance, the camera focuses on the candle as it mysteriously blows out. It takes a couple tries.
In the middle of act 3, as the scene changes from the Old House to Nicholas’ house, the boom mic doesn’t pick up the first few words of Adam’s first line.
While Adam and Eve are talking in act 3, the “Angelique’s Spook” music cue starts to play, indicating that Eve can feel the presence of a spirit in the room. But the cue comes in about ten seconds too late, so it looks like Eve gets agitated and looks around for no reason.
Behind the Scenes:
There’s a new lamp at Nicholas’ place — or at least, a lamp that I don’t recall seeing before. It’s got the same scalloped texture as the green lamps that we’ve seen popping up all year, but the new one is yellow. It gets a nice two-shot with Adam at the start of his scene in act 1.
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