I don't mean to jump ahead of you, Rob, but if I don't record it now I'll forget. [SPOILERS for 860/861]
Once again, it's time to update the (reformated!)...
SEANCE SCORECARD:
SEANCE #1: Episode 170 Participants: Guthrie, Roger, Carolyn & Vicki (+ Laura) Purpose: To contact Josette Results: Josettte speaks through Vicki (in French)
SEANCE #2: Episode 186 Participants: Vicki, Sam Evans & David Purpose: To contact Josette Results: David Radcliffe speaks through David
SEANCE #3: Episodes 280/281 Participants: Roger, Liz, Carolyn, Vicki, Burke & Barnabas Purpose: To contact any spirit which will answer Results: Josette speaks through Vicki (in English)
SEANCE #4: Episode 365(461) Participants: Roger, Liz, Carolyn, Vicki, Julia & Barnabas Purpose: To contact Sarah Results: Vicki sent on a "uncertain and frightening journey into the past"
SEANCE #5: Episodes 511/512 Participants: Stokes, Julia & Tony Purpose: To contact Trask Results: Trask manifests in the present
SEANCE #6: Episode 600 Participants: Stokes, Julia & Barnabas Purpose: To contact Philippe Cordier Results: Philippe Cordier speaks through Barnabas (in an outrageous French accent)
SEANCE #7: Episode 640 Participants: David and Amy Purpose: To contact Quentin Collins Results: Interrupted by Vicki
SEANCE #8: Episode 642 Participants: Stokes, Chris Jennings, Liz, Carolyn and Vicki Purpose: To contact Jeff Clark Results: Magda Rakosi speaks through Carolyn
SEANCE #9: Episode 682 Participants: Stokes, Barnabas, Maggie and Mrs. Johnson Purpose: To contact Janet Findley Results: Janet Findley speaks through Mrs. Johnson
SEANCE #10: Episode 797 Participants: Barnabas, Quentin and Magda Purpose: To contact Results: Julianka refuses to cure Quentin and curses Magda
SEANCE #11: Episodes 860/861 Participants: Pansy Faye, Kitty and Edward Purpose: To contact any spirit to help Kitty Results: Interrupted by Judith returning from the sanitarium
The Baron > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 23, 2023 at 12:10am
If the show had continued indefinitely:
SEANCE #407: Episodes 15377/15378 Participants: Barnabas, Quentin, Carolyn, Walter O'Reilly, Anna "Lefty" Higashikuni and J'obobb Ardeen Purpose: To contact the ghost of Throckmorton P. Collins*, in order to obtain his secret chili recipe Results: Abruptly terminated by the sudden manifestations of Doug Phillips and Tony Newman, who suggest they try lemon chicken, instead.
Just saw the show's wildest escape yet, as I've made it to episode 837! Edward has trapped Barnabas in a cell, planning to let him get killed by the dawn. All the secret passages out of the cell are sealed. But Barnabas hides a letter to the future in a writing desk that he knows will survive into the late 60s, and Julia gets the letter and comes back in time to save him! (After talking with the ghost of Beth, and finding out exactly how the deaths of Quentin and Beth went down: Beth shot Quentin, then killed herself the next day.) Unfortunately, Julia has amnesia when she arrives in the past. Quentin finds the letter and frees Barnabas, knowing he's fated to die that day: September 10, 1897.
Oh, and David is dead, but I don't think that will last.
And now episode 838, in which we see how Quentin escapes death... not through the help of Barnabas and Julia, but by Count Petofi! Nefarious!
Giving Julia amnesia from her time-trip was a great move, as it allowed Quentin to fret all day, not knowing from which direction death was coming. And this was a very interested episode, seeing how so much of it was a reshoot from the flashbacks from a few days before.
Julia time-traveling into the past was the "significant plot development" I alluded to back on September 16. Julia is one of the show's "Big Guns" (Barnabas, Quentin, Angelique, Julia) and now Grayson Hall is playing two roles in 1897. It's a mug's game trying to figure out the mechanicas and ramifications of time-travel on Dark Shadows, but it's fun to take a crack at it anyway. The show has long since stopped being a gothic horror and has since become supernatural/time travel. The current method of choice is the I-Ching wands, but how does that work, exactly? It made sense (Dark Shadows "sense") that Barnabas could be able to travel to 1897 because he had a body there (his own, in a coffin), but Julia? In the days to come, you will learn that Julia exists as her "astral self" and is impervious to harm. But she changes clothes in the past, and when she returns to the present she leaves her modern clothes behind. Is she naked? (That's scary!) How did she create an astral set of clothes and then leave them behind? They're starting to wind up the 1897 arc, but there's still about 10 weeks to go from where you are. Soon you'll meet an important new character (in 844) and there are some truly wild surprises yet to come after that.
I've reached episode 839, in which Quentin, Barnabas, and Julia catch up, Julia looks into the future and sees David come to life again, and Quentin acts shady when Barbabas asks whether Petofi wanted anything in return for saving his life.
Plus, Julia establishes some contacts with the local coven (offscreen) to get chemicals to cure Barnabas, and then is abducted at the end of the show! Almost certainly by Petofi, but we'll see.
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I don't mean to jump ahead of you, Rob, but if I don't record it now I'll forget. [SPOILERS for 860/861]
Once again, it's time to update the (reformated!)...
SEANCE SCORECARD:
SEANCE #1: Episode 170
Participants: Guthrie, Roger, Carolyn & Vicki (+ Laura)
Purpose: To contact Josette
Results: Josettte speaks through Vicki (in French)
SEANCE #2: Episode 186
Participants: Vicki, Sam Evans & David
Purpose: To contact Josette
Results: David Radcliffe speaks through David
SEANCE #3: Episodes 280/281
Participants: Roger, Liz, Carolyn, Vicki, Burke & Barnabas
Purpose: To contact any spirit which will answer
Results: Josette speaks through Vicki (in English)
SEANCE #4: Episode 365(461)
Participants: Roger, Liz, Carolyn, Vicki, Julia & Barnabas
Purpose: To contact Sarah
Results: Vicki sent on a "uncertain and frightening journey into the past"
SEANCE #5: Episodes 511/512
Participants: Stokes, Julia & Tony
Purpose: To contact Trask
Results: Trask manifests in the present
SEANCE #6: Episode 600
Participants: Stokes, Julia & Barnabas
Purpose: To contact Philippe Cordier
Results: Philippe Cordier speaks through Barnabas (in an outrageous French accent)
SEANCE #7: Episode 640
Participants: David and Amy
Purpose: To contact Quentin Collins
Results: Interrupted by Vicki
SEANCE #8: Episode 642
Participants: Stokes, Chris Jennings, Liz, Carolyn and Vicki
Purpose: To contact Jeff Clark
Results: Magda Rakosi speaks through Carolyn
SEANCE #9: Episode 682
Participants: Stokes, Barnabas, Maggie and Mrs. Johnson
Purpose: To contact Janet Findley
Results: Janet Findley speaks through Mrs. Johnson
SEANCE #10: Episode 797
Participants: Barnabas, Quentin and Magda
Purpose: To contact
Results: Julianka refuses to cure Quentin and curses Magda
SEANCE #11: Episodes 860/861
Participants: Pansy Faye, Kitty and Edward
Purpose: To contact any spirit to help Kitty
Results: Interrupted by Judith returning from the sanitarium
If the show had continued indefinitely:
SEANCE #407: Episodes 15377/15378
Participants: Barnabas, Quentin, Carolyn, Walter O'Reilly, Anna "Lefty" Higashikuni and J'obobb Ardeen
Purpose: To contact the ghost of Throckmorton P. Collins*, in order to obtain his secret chili recipe
Results: Abruptly terminated by the sudden manifestations of Doug Phillips and Tony Newman, who suggest they try lemon chicken, instead.
*He was the town's wtater commissioner, you know.
I did not know that!
Oh, good! I'm looking forward to another seance. And, eventually, to meeting the illustrious Throckmorton, Baron!
Just saw the show's wildest escape yet, as I've made it to episode 837! Edward has trapped Barnabas in a cell, planning to let him get killed by the dawn. All the secret passages out of the cell are sealed. But Barnabas hides a letter to the future in a writing desk that he knows will survive into the late 60s, and Julia gets the letter and comes back in time to save him! (After talking with the ghost of Beth, and finding out exactly how the deaths of Quentin and Beth went down: Beth shot Quentin, then killed herself the next day.) Unfortunately, Julia has amnesia when she arrives in the past. Quentin finds the letter and frees Barnabas, knowing he's fated to die that day: September 10, 1897.
Oh, and David is dead, but I don't think that will last.
And now episode 838, in which we see how Quentin escapes death... not through the help of Barnabas and Julia, but by Count Petofi! Nefarious!
Giving Julia amnesia from her time-trip was a great move, as it allowed Quentin to fret all day, not knowing from which direction death was coming. And this was a very interested episode, seeing how so much of it was a reshoot from the flashbacks from a few days before.
Julia time-traveling into the past was the "significant plot development" I alluded to back on September 16. Julia is one of the show's "Big Guns" (Barnabas, Quentin, Angelique, Julia) and now Grayson Hall is playing two roles in 1897. It's a mug's game trying to figure out the mechanicas and ramifications of time-travel on Dark Shadows, but it's fun to take a crack at it anyway. The show has long since stopped being a gothic horror and has since become supernatural/time travel. The current method of choice is the I-Ching wands, but how does that work, exactly? It made sense (Dark Shadows "sense") that Barnabas could be able to travel to 1897 because he had a body there (his own, in a coffin), but Julia? In the days to come, you will learn that Julia exists as her "astral self" and is impervious to harm. But she changes clothes in the past, and when she returns to the present she leaves her modern clothes behind. Is she naked? (That's scary!) How did she create an astral set of clothes and then leave them behind? They're starting to wind up the 1897 arc, but there's still about 10 weeks to go from where you are. Soon you'll meet an important new character (in 844) and there are some truly wild surprises yet to come after that.
Nice! I'm looking forward to it.
I've reached episode 839, in which Quentin, Barnabas, and Julia catch up, Julia looks into the future and sees David come to life again, and Quentin acts shady when Barbabas asks whether Petofi wanted anything in return for saving his life.
Plus, Julia establishes some contacts with the local coven (offscreen) to get chemicals to cure Barnabas, and then is abducted at the end of the show! Almost certainly by Petofi, but we'll see.
Extremely sad news today. She will be missed. 💔
damn.
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