Dark Shadows

[Kitty]

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It's been so long since I've seen Maggie.... She looks way different! am I wrong or just remembering that she used to be way cuter??? I think the hair color with the caked on makeup makes her look terrible!!

Honestly, it's a weird request that Vicky has to ask Maggie if Jeff could stay with them. Why not just put him up in the hotel?

These are the most fast acting knock-out drugs I've ever heard of!

Oh, wow! New closing credit image! Kind of kaleidoscope-y. Idk if I like it.

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Omg, this place is Grand Central Station. Dr. Lang is a popular person.

That doctor is the worst. He doesn't even know his lines, so much so that he's delivering them so flat while he's reading the prompter.

[donnie]

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That is quite the dress that Barnabas is wearing when Mr. Peterson visits his house.

Yes.

Also, when did Angelique have time to learn all these witchy spells and such? She was supposed to be Josette's maid.

I think there was some discussion of that somewhere, maybe back in the 1795 storyline. Though I've forgotten the details, she was raised on Martinique and learned the secrets of witchcraft and voodoo from the natives there.

Hmm, I wonder what assistance she needs from Tony.

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It's been so long since I've seen Maggie.... She looks way different! am I wrong or just remembering that she used to be way cuter??? I think the hair color with the caked on makeup makes her look terrible!!

Yes, wasn't it nice to see her again? I miss the old days of the diner and Pop and Maggie and the cottage. I thought she looked about the same—hair color may be different, a little more reddish, maybe?

Honestly, it's a weird request that Vicky has to ask Maggie if Jeff could stay with them. Why not just put him up in the hotel?

Yes, that didn't make much sense. Neither did the doctor's preparing to remove Jeff's head while he's alive. Wouldn't he have just injected him with a fatal drug the first time? Of course I don't know how these things work...

These are the most fast acting knock-out drugs I've ever heard of!

There are things that work that fast. Remember those tranquilizer darts they use to immobilize large animals?

Oh, wow! New closing credit image! Kind of kaleidoscope-y. Idk if I like it.

Me either. Maybe that was just a one-off to go with the dream idea.

[donnie]

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That doctor is the worst. He doesn't even know his lines, so much so that he's delivering them so flat while he's reading the prompter.

This is not Jonathan Frid's best acting either. They're both reading the Teleprompter pretty heavily.
Poor Jeff. How many times has he been tranquilized now? His arms must be like pin cushions.

[donnie]

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Wow, Julia really lost it when she discovered the body.
Shouldn't she have:
1. Checked out Jeff's story before hypnotizing him? and
2. Waited until away from Dr. Lang's house before attempting to phone the police??

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I could not identify who was doing the voiceover at the beginning—it must have been Lara Parker, though it didn't sound like her.

I enjoyed seeing Angelique startled when Barnabas crept up and nabbed her. It's nice to see her in a pinch for a change.

So Tony has been transformed into Angelique's flunky. I wonder what that kiss was for? Just a tool, or was something else going on there?

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Interesting episode.

So much going on right now.... I'm listing it so I can keep it straight.
- Lang's experiment
- Barnabas's new existence threatened
- Angelique out to destroy Lang
- Willie's return??
- Jeff Clark remembering his previous existence
- The progression of the strange dream to various people
Is that all?

How nice to again see the cottage from the olden days
And I'll bet you liked that quilt skirt of Maggie's? Does she still look as overly made up to you as before?

That music playing during the dream is the one from Josette's music box. I wonder if that has a significance, or if they're just recycling music.

At the end after Jeff wakens from the nightmare, did you notice the dry ice fog from the dream making an appearance behind the chair? They must have shot the dream scene just a few feet away from the cottage set.

[Kitty]

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Wow, Julia really lost it when she discovered the body.

Absolute worst acting and least believable reaction ever. She screamed for so long! I mean, it's not like the thing was lunging toward her or anything!

Shouldn't she have:
1. Checked out Jeff's story before hypnotizing him?

Yes.

2. Waited until away from Dr. Lang's house before attempting to phone the police??

And Yes.

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Around 4:07 there was an obvious cut and restart.

Dr. Lang is wearing so. much. makeup.

I could not identify who was doing the voiceover at the beginning—it must have been Lara Parker, though it didn't sound like her.

I think it was her.

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- Willie's return??

I knew it had to be coming soon.

And I'll bet you liked that quilt skirt of Maggie's?

Oh my god, yes! I want one.

Does she still look as overly made up to you as before?

I think it's just that the makeup makes her look sickly or something. I'm sure I'll get used to her again.

I like her happy attitude lately.

That music playing during the dream is the one from Josette's music box. I wonder if that has a significance, or if they're just recycling music.

Hard to tell with this writing team. I'm still mad they abandoned the "where do I come from" angle of Vicky's.

At the end after Jeff wakens from the nightmare, did you notice the dry ice fog from the dream making an appearance behind the chair? They must have shot the dream scene just a few feet away from the cottage set.

That was really weird, wasn't it?

[donnie]

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It’s good to see Willie again, but I’m not quite sure what to make of him, are you? At first he seems kind of zonked out and strangely appears to have no memory of the agonies he endured under Barnabas.

And then at the old house, he seems oddly docile (as Julia points out), but then toward the end he appears more reckless, almost like a psychopath. He definitely seems unstable.

And why on earth did he charge in on Maggie like that?? How did he expect she was going to react? And the way he keeps lunging at her is at odds with his stated goal of reassuring her.

And what is he doing with that gun??

Questions, questions.

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Odd that Lang would be freaked out by the headless figure in the dream when he's had an actual one in his laboratory for weeks—that he is going to put a head on tomorrow. And I'll leave aside the question of where the laughter comes from since the torso has no vocal cords. This dream sequence is even hokier than the Jeremiah ghost thing back in '95.