8/9/2023 0 Comments Abigail burn notice cast![]() ![]() I don’t think there’s a single boring Reverend Trask scene in the entire canon of Western literature. ![]() ![]() But then it turns out that this was all a set-up - a way to get Cassandra alone in a spooky setting, so they can release the Trask.Īnd, oh, what a relief that is. Cassandra laughs and laughs, just completely delighted at achieving something which is frankly pretty pointless. Liz finally decides she’s had enough, and she runs out of the mausoleum. “Well,” she says, “here we are.” And then she leads Liz over to the mausoleum entrance, and starts talking about death again. Then Cassandra pulls the car into a parking space, and takes the keys out of the ignition. In the Missing Adventures fan fiction in my head, they just made small talk the whole way - oh, isn’t that house getting run down, it looks worse every time I see it, but isn’t it a lovely clear night, I thought it would never stop raining, and so on. It’s a pretty one-note conversation, which makes me wonder what the drive out to the cemetery was like. It’s often the case that even in the most dire circumstances, somebody on Dark Shadows is making a special effort to keep the audience entertained.Ĭassandra takes Liz all the way out to the mausoleum at the Eagle Hill cemetery, just to taunt her some more, and tell her the same thing she said back at Collinwood - she’s Naomi, and she’s going to die. In fact, the only thing that really works about this plotline is that it gives Joan Bennett the opportunity to teach a master class in how to make bewildered acting faces. So the plot point just kind of sits there, and fills up time. There’s no sense in which Liz is Naomi, or ought to be Naomi. The two characters have nothing to do with each other, except that they were both played by the same actress. There’s no emotional resonance in making Liz think that she’s Naomi. The real problem is that this doesn’t make metaphorical sense. It seems like a waste of energy.īut making logical sense is hardly the point if that was a requirement, we’d have given up on this show ages ago. So it’s not clear why she would go to all the trouble of creating a two-pronged curse that apparently requires some preparation and maintenance, just to keep Liz quiet. Cassandra clearly has the power to make Liz simply forget what she saw she did exactly that with David a month ago. For one thing, it doesn’t really make logical sense. Now, I’m a big fan of lunatic plot contrivances, but this one doesn’t work for me. This consists mostly of sipping sherry and worrying, which Liz was actually pretty good at anyway. Today, she’s upping the ante, making Liz believe that she’s Naomi Collins, an 18th-century ancestor who committed suicide after learning that her son had become a vampire. So Cassandra - the maddest soap vixen of them all - cast a spell on Elizabeth so that she would think constantly about death. Unfortunately, Cassandra’s sister-in-law was looking out of the window at the time, and she threatened to tell Roger about his new wife’s indiscretion. It’s just something that soap vixens do when they’re finished blackmailing somebody it’s like a reflex. Last week, Cassandra was kissing lawyer Tony Peterson in the garden, apparently because she couldn’t think of any other way to end the conversation. Here’s what she’s doing with her free time. But you can’t just sit around and scheme all day. She’s currently living with rich Collins husband #2, and scheming to turn husband #1 back into a vampire. She worked her way up from a menial servant position to become the lady of the manor - twice, in two different centuries - thanks to her charm, her intelligence, her boundless capacity for ruthlessness, and her contract position with the Lord of the Flies. Here’s Cassandra Angelique Bouchard Blair Collins Collins, a poor girl from the mean streets of Martinique. “In a moment, your flames will be nothing but harmless smoke.” ![]()
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