I love Dark Shadows, but sometimes it drives me crazy
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carose59"And I Know What You're Going To Say, You're Going To Say, Well, The Steak Was Dead. Sure The Steak Was Dead, But It's Dead Life."*
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OK, so Quentin's a zombie. (It's a long story. Well, not really. Quentin's crazy wife killed him. Barnabas needs him to be alive, so he asked Angelique for a favor. She brought Quentin back, sort of.)
So, Quentin's a zombie. He abducts Rachel, because she looks like Josette so Angelique wanted him to. But Rachel got away. Then he went to sit by Barnabas's coffin, to taunt him, also because Angelique wanted him to.
Then Barnabas remembered that he knew a ceremony that would reunite Quentin's body with his spirit (which is in Jamison, which is handy). They did the ceremony—which included making sure the chairs were placed so there was room for the spirit to get back to the body. Feng shui is so important when you're reuniting a body with its spirit. But the ceremony didn't work, and Quentin left.
Barnabas has to go get Jamison, which means going to Collinwood. Quentin only has to get back to his grave, at which point he'll die permanently. (Yeah, well, as permanently as anyone ever dies on this show.) You'd think Quentin would "win" this race easily. Except the next time we see Quentin, he's crawling towards his grave.
Why is he crawling? He was walking around just fine when he left the Old House; he even knocked down Barnabas and Sandor. (He was walking like the guy at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead, which is great characterization.) But now he's crawling, struggling to get to his grave.
Barnabas can't get Jamison, so instead he takes Quentin to Collinwood. For whatever reason, Quentin suddenly obeys when Barnabas tells him they have to go to Collinwood.
You know, I put up with a lot, watching this show. Time travel pardoxes, cemeteries that move closer to the house, werewolves who won't eat their flowers, people being menaced by heavy-breathing shadows, vampire victims who get annoyed when the vampire summons them. But zombies suddenly crawling along the ground for absolutely no reason is just annoying. Take some pride in yourself! Stand up and shamble like a zombie!
(By the way, Dark Shadows zombies don't eat people. They kill people, and they vandalize your house. I don't know why.)
*Seth Brundel
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OK, so Quentin's a zombie. (It's a long story. Well, not really. Quentin's crazy wife killed him. Barnabas needs him to be alive, so he asked Angelique for a favor. She brought Quentin back, sort of.)
So, Quentin's a zombie. He abducts Rachel, because she looks like Josette so Angelique wanted him to. But Rachel got away. Then he went to sit by Barnabas's coffin, to taunt him, also because Angelique wanted him to.
Then Barnabas remembered that he knew a ceremony that would reunite Quentin's body with his spirit (which is in Jamison, which is handy). They did the ceremony—which included making sure the chairs were placed so there was room for the spirit to get back to the body. Feng shui is so important when you're reuniting a body with its spirit. But the ceremony didn't work, and Quentin left.
Barnabas has to go get Jamison, which means going to Collinwood. Quentin only has to get back to his grave, at which point he'll die permanently. (Yeah, well, as permanently as anyone ever dies on this show.) You'd think Quentin would "win" this race easily. Except the next time we see Quentin, he's crawling towards his grave.
Why is he crawling? He was walking around just fine when he left the Old House; he even knocked down Barnabas and Sandor. (He was walking like the guy at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead, which is great characterization.) But now he's crawling, struggling to get to his grave.
Barnabas can't get Jamison, so instead he takes Quentin to Collinwood. For whatever reason, Quentin suddenly obeys when Barnabas tells him they have to go to Collinwood.
You know, I put up with a lot, watching this show. Time travel pardoxes, cemeteries that move closer to the house, werewolves who won't eat their flowers, people being menaced by heavy-breathing shadows, vampire victims who get annoyed when the vampire summons them. But zombies suddenly crawling along the ground for absolutely no reason is just annoying. Take some pride in yourself! Stand up and shamble like a zombie!
(By the way, Dark Shadows zombies don't eat people. They kill people, and they vandalize your house. I don't know why.)
*Seth Brundel