tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5664865869429189611.post5398435766724624457..comments2024-03-15T19:22:00.426-07:00Comments on Dark Shadows Before I Die: Episode 24 - 7/28/66John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15830334036783163702noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5664865869429189611.post-29222738583442864612024-02-12T11:15:11.292-08:002024-02-12T11:15:11.292-08:00Why do so many people misinterpret Maggie's &q...Why do so many people misinterpret Maggie's "jerk" line? She wasn't implying Vicki was a bad person. In the 1960s, "jerk" meant "fool." She was saying that Vicki was foolish for going to Collinwood. Huge difference there, but a lot of people seem to confuse her meaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5664865869429189611.post-37034232421998576962022-07-28T10:04:12.133-07:002022-07-28T10:04:12.133-07:00Some ambitious videography in this episode- the ca...Some ambitious videography in this episode- the camera moves around the hotel set during the opening narration, shoots the constable at a low angle to make him look impressive, focuses on characters in the background to separate them from the ones in the foreground, etc. <br /><br />All that camera work is a bit too ambitious for Michael Currie- when he gets up from Burke couch, he walks directly into one camera and then the other one hits him in the head. He then stands there with his back to Burke and his arms bent in front of him as if he's urinating on the floor of the hotel room. <br /><br />We liked this episode, but Currie's performance did give us our first moments of laugh-out-loud unintentional humor. Even before he stumbles around and pees on Burke's floor, he's made one of the truly hilarious line flubs. Burke tells him he has a fine memory, he says "That's what I'm paid for," then blows his next line. Even when he gets his lines right, Currie is stiff and monotonous, a dead spot on the screen. Bring on the Pattersons! <br /><br />The hotel setting does cast our minds back to episode 1. It's startling to see how much has already changed since then. Maggie and Carolyn chat cozily on the same set where Maggie had told Victoria that anyone living at Collinwood, even as staff, was a "jerk." And Burke gives a warm greeting to one of the policemen who sent him up the river on the same set where he'd refused even to use the name of Mr Wells, whose only offense was living in the town from which he'd been taken away. Not a hard development to explain- if you have two and a half hours a week of airtime to fill and little but dialogue to fill it with, you can't afford to have many characters who refuse to speak to one another. But still, it's a jolt to see. Los Thunderladshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13897455151203429353noreply@blogger.com