Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)December 15, 2024 at 8:06pm
Episode 1027 was the turning point (or at least a turning point) as I see it. Barnabas and Angelique are both aware of the truth about each other and have openly declared themselves to be enemies. It is interesting to see the PT Eliot Stokes (Angelique's stepfather) allied with her rather than him. It's fitting that he is the one who theorizes about "parallel time" in this reality. Previously, the vampire and the witch and the Jeckyll/Hyde stories were all running parallel to each other (pun intended), but now they are starting to intertwine.
Two more this afternoon, up through episode 1031. Angelique has been reunited with her father (or stepfather), Professor Stokes, who somehow used occult mumbo-jumbo to help bring her back from the dead. There's a near corpse in his secret back room that Angelique's life force is tied to, and if Stokes snuffs out that life, Angelique is a goner. And Stokes is using this majestic blackmail trump card to be welcomed back to Collinwood so he can have access to their liquor cabinet.
Meanwhile, Barnabas is more and more convinced that Maggie has been kidnapped (she has), even though she wrote a letter to Quentin saying they were through and she was leaving (a letter Yeager forced her to write). In looking for her, Barnabas find's Angelique's diary, but then realizes he's shunted back to original timeline. And yet...now he tells Julia (our Julia!) he's got to get back to Parallel Time to save Maggie!
Oh, and Angelique almost kissed Roger to death, and I'm sorry she didn't... even though I'm happy to see Roger at his catty best. He's been declawed in the main timeline.
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)December 18, 2024 at 7:33am
That was one helluva cliffhanger, especially for a Monday episode. But instead of being relieved that he is no longer trapped in PT, he for some reason feels responsible for saving alternate Maggie. I think he should take the win (although that wouldn't make for good storytelling).
Saw episode 1032 over lunch. (If I want to get to 1060 by Dec 31, I'll have to be diligent! We'll see.) Barnabas manages to return to PT, after he gets our Julia to secure the shifting room in our own timeline. Yeager reads Maggie a letter from Quentin, saying he wasn't going to chase her. Maggie is running a fever, so Yeager gets her some meds; she agrees to leave with him, but he doesn't believe her. And Angelique and Hoffman discover Barnabas has been reading her diary; Angelique sends Hoffman to spy on Barnabas in retaliation, and discovers he goes into the secret room of the old house (where his coffin is).
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)December 18, 2024 at 8:04pm
Considering how long it has taken Barnabas to return from PT, it doesn't take him long at all to return to it. Julia wants to go with him, but Barnabas speculates... based on nothing, really... that there might be some "rule" that two duplicates cannot exist in the same reality and that if Julia were to return with him, one of the Julias might have to die. He has returned just long enought to confer briefly with Julia. Back in PT, that's another heluva cliffhanger.
One more episode of Dark Shadows today, episode 1033. Barnabas is trying to figure out where Maggie is and starts to learn what's going on with Yeager, Liz has a dream that Maggie is dead in Cyrus's lab, Sabrina runs to Collinwood when she realizes Yeager has captured Maggie, and Yeager follows her there and strangles her in the study...and then Liz comes in and sees him standing over her corpse.
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)December 19, 2024 at 8:42pm
That's three days in a row of really killer cliffhangers (this time literally).
I've seen up through episode 1035 now, wrapping up the Yeager storyline. Barnabas finds Yeager's basement hideout and fights him, killing Yeager and saving Maggie. Yeager reverts to Cyrus when he's dead. Barnabas talks this over with Quentin and they decide to tell the full story of the transformation (as much as they know) to the police, which seems nutty to me.
Meanwhile, Hoffman has spied on Original TIme and learned Barnabas is a vampire...and at the end of the episode, she's snuck into the Old House and is about to stake Barnabas in his coffin! In the space of one afternoon, she goes from 0 to 60 as a vampire hunter. When she woke up that morning, she didn't even realize vampires existed!
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)December 20, 2024 at 8:06pm
That is a killer Friday cliffhanger in a week of killer cliffhangers.
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Episode 1027 was the turning point (or at least a turning point) as I see it. Barnabas and Angelique are both aware of the truth about each other and have openly declared themselves to be enemies. It is interesting to see the PT Eliot Stokes (Angelique's stepfather) allied with her rather than him. It's fitting that he is the one who theorizes about "parallel time" in this reality. Previously, the vampire and the witch and the Jeckyll/Hyde stories were all running parallel to each other (pun intended), but now they are starting to intertwine.
Two more this afternoon, up through episode 1031. Angelique has been reunited with her father (or stepfather), Professor Stokes, who somehow used occult mumbo-jumbo to help bring her back from the dead. There's a near corpse in his secret back room that Angelique's life force is tied to, and if Stokes snuffs out that life, Angelique is a goner. And Stokes is using this majestic blackmail trump card to be welcomed back to Collinwood so he can have access to their liquor cabinet.
Meanwhile, Barnabas is more and more convinced that Maggie has been kidnapped (she has), even though she wrote a letter to Quentin saying they were through and she was leaving (a letter Yeager forced her to write). In looking for her, Barnabas find's Angelique's diary, but then realizes he's shunted back to original timeline. And yet...now he tells Julia (our Julia!) he's got to get back to Parallel Time to save Maggie!
Oh, and Angelique almost kissed Roger to death, and I'm sorry she didn't... even though I'm happy to see Roger at his catty best. He's been declawed in the main timeline.
That was one helluva cliffhanger, especially for a Monday episode. But instead of being relieved that he is no longer trapped in PT, he for some reason feels responsible for saving alternate Maggie. I think he should take the win (although that wouldn't make for good storytelling).
Saw episode 1032 over lunch. (If I want to get to 1060 by Dec 31, I'll have to be diligent! We'll see.) Barnabas manages to return to PT, after he gets our Julia to secure the shifting room in our own timeline. Yeager reads Maggie a letter from Quentin, saying he wasn't going to chase her. Maggie is running a fever, so Yeager gets her some meds; she agrees to leave with him, but he doesn't believe her. And Angelique and Hoffman discover Barnabas has been reading her diary; Angelique sends Hoffman to spy on Barnabas in retaliation, and discovers he goes into the secret room of the old house (where his coffin is).
Considering how long it has taken Barnabas to return from PT, it doesn't take him long at all to return to it. Julia wants to go with him, but Barnabas speculates... based on nothing, really... that there might be some "rule" that two duplicates cannot exist in the same reality and that if Julia were to return with him, one of the Julias might have to die. He has returned just long enought to confer briefly with Julia. Back in PT, that's another heluva cliffhanger.
One more episode of Dark Shadows today, episode 1033. Barnabas is trying to figure out where Maggie is and starts to learn what's going on with Yeager, Liz has a dream that Maggie is dead in Cyrus's lab, Sabrina runs to Collinwood when she realizes Yeager has captured Maggie, and Yeager follows her there and strangles her in the study...and then Liz comes in and sees him standing over her corpse.
That's three days in a row of really killer cliffhangers (this time literally).
I've seen up through episode 1035 now, wrapping up the Yeager storyline. Barnabas finds Yeager's basement hideout and fights him, killing Yeager and saving Maggie. Yeager reverts to Cyrus when he's dead. Barnabas talks this over with Quentin and they decide to tell the full story of the transformation (as much as they know) to the police, which seems nutty to me.
Meanwhile, Hoffman has spied on Original TIme and learned Barnabas is a vampire...and at the end of the episode, she's snuck into the Old House and is about to stake Barnabas in his coffin! In the space of one afternoon, she goes from 0 to 60 as a vampire hunter. When she woke up that morning, she didn't even realize vampires existed!
That is a killer Friday cliffhanger in a week of killer cliffhangers.
This popped up on my Facebook timeline this morning.
Lara Parker on the cover of The Memphis Commercial Appeal's Mid-South magazine in 1972.
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