Favorite episode?
DivaM...@webtv.net
you as a memorable favorite, a defining DS moment?
When I was in high school, a local station was airing reruns late at
night, and I'd gotten involved all over again in the 1795 storyline just
as I had as a child. I got a friend at school hooked on it too (bwa ha
ha!), and we couldn't wait to discuss the previous night's episode at
school each day.
I'll never forget the episode where Angelique lured Josette to Widoe's
Hill and frightened her with a vision of her fate, and Josette's tragic
fall to her death as Barnabas watched in horror. It had been years since
I'd seen DS, so it was like seeing it for the first time.
Anyway, the next day my friend informed me how disapointed she was that
she'd somehow missed DS last night, especially since it had been getting
so good lately with so much delicous drama going on! She asked me
excitedly "So come on, tell me, what happened last night?!"
My breathless reply? "EVERYTHING!!!" :)
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Artys
Well, I remember the episode where Angelique says to Barnabas, "I
curse you, I curse you!" It was extremely powerful.
DivaM...@webtv.net
a B&W TV at home, and one day I was at a family friend's house after
school, and I'll never forget the dramatic impact that seeing DS on
their color TV for the first time made on me! Someone had been bitten,
and I remember how vivid the red blood was...
Tim
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> Does anyone have one particular episode that will always stand out for
> you as a memorable favorite, a defining DS moment?
Well, my answer to that question changes month to month, depending on
which episodes I've been watching at the time. Right now, I have to say
I am impressed with #411, when a totally panicy Angelique attempts
destroying Barnabas before the curse begins, but she arrives at the
mausoleum too late:
Barnabas: So the curse is with me yet and will remain with me. Now I
know why you tried to prevent me from coming back to life.
Angelique: You do?
B: Of course! You knew you would be the first victim of your own curse!
A: Oh, no, no! That's not true!
B: Of course it is, Angelique! Or were you always lying to me when you
told me how much you love me?
A: No, Barnabas, I DO love you!
B: Then according to the curse, you must DIE! [starts strangling her]
A: No, Barnabas, please!
B: Yes, my dear Angelique, all your powers of witchcraft cannot save you
now!
Later on is good too:
Ben: ... she made me get a stake and a mallet.
Barnabas: Did she tell you why she wanted them?
Ben: She said the only way to make ya stay dead was to drive a stake
through your heart.
Barnabas: She got here a little too late for THAT.
And later still, a lamenting Barnabas:
Barnabas: When I awoke tonight and saw Angelique with the stake pointed
over my heart, I should have let her go through with it, I should have
let her kill me.
Ben: Mr Barnabas, you mustn't talk like that.
Barnabas: Ben, I would rather be dead than have to go through eternity
as what I am, what I have become.
Tim
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DivaM...@webtv.net
Collection 5, ready to start on #6). It really showed the conflicting
emotions that Barnabas was going through in his first hours as a vampire
- triumphant in realizing the power Angelique's curse ironically
afforded him over her, but ultimately heartbroken and despondent over
what he had become. You could just see the weight of the world on his
face, and couldn't help but feel deeply for him. A terrific performance
by Jonathan, and Lara too.