From: nova@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jennifer Baughman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: QL:Daughter of Sin I *SPOILERS*
Date: 19 Nov 92 22:39:55 GMT
Reply-To: nova@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jennifer Baughman)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: nova@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu

Ziggy calculates that there is a 99% probability that there are spoilers ahead.





















I was going to do a synopsis, but then I decided not to...everyone who reads
this has probably watched the damn thing, so why waste my time and yours?  :)

Okay.  Comments.

That kid Abigail wasn't just weird, she was.......she gave me chills down my 
spine.  And just to eludicate...I've dared to say the name of That Halloween
Episode aloud! :)  Anyhow, back to the point...she was really freaky.  And 
what about that 'appearance' of her mother...when Sam reopened the door and 
looked down the hall, there stood Abigail.

As the show went on, all I could think was 'Weird family.'  The grandmother 
that slit the throats of all her children save one, the mother who was put in
an insane asylum...and the child who is a suspect in two murders.  Geez.  I
was tempted to swear that H.P. Lovecraft had written this episode...then I 
remembered...H.P. Lovecraft is DEAD!!! :)

ANYWAY!  I'm sure the mother (Laura...is that her name?) isn't as nuts as the
rest of the town thinks she is...she's certainly one damn good actress.  It was
very eerie, seeing her STARE right through Sam as he tried to talk to her...
and then the little gestures she made after they left...did anyone else notice 
that she was basically waving in the same place Al had stood?  What if she saw
Al?

Okay, now to the widow, Mrs. Aider.  Before I do, though, I'd like to ask a 
question for the record...Are there any NORMAL people in this town?????
Mrs. Aider certainly doesn't qualify!!!  *groan*  Well, I didn't like the way
she kept accusing Abigail of killing her husband and her daughter.  I also
thought it was very unusual that she insisted on seeing her husband right 
then-and-there...even though he was in the middle of being autopsied.  Now
maybe I'm just a little paranoid, and maybe it can be explained as a grieving
widow wanting one last look at her dead husband--but given her later actions,
I sincerely doubt it.  Question is, *why* did she want to see his body so 
badly?  Maybe she wanted to make sure that he was really dead?

What is the significance of the locket?  Abigail and her mother wanted it, and
had saved up all their money for it, and then Violet and her mother got it 
first.  Now Violet has disappeared, and is assumed to have been killed by a 
pack of wild dogs, and the locket with her...so why does Mrs. Aider think that
Abigail has it?  And what is so important about it?

Back to Abigail...she told Sam that she *wanted* Violet to die, and she did, 
and that she *wanted* the pack of dogs to die, and they did, and that she
*wanted* Mr. Aider to die, and he did...does anyone see a pattern here?????

In the house...It almost seemed as if Abigail could see/hear Al, too...after
she had hit Mrs. Aider over the head with a vase, and was trying to escape
upstairs...and then after she managed to get upstairs and was running back and
forth, searching for a place to hide.  Did it seem that way to anyone else?

Just one last question...whyinhell didn't Sam escape out the window?????  (I 
know, I know, then we wouldn't have a three-part episode.  I don't care.)
Someone PLEASE give me a good explanation of this...Please?

Well, maybe not the *last* question...Was it just me, or was the kid who was
running errands...Will, I think his name was...weird?  (Dumb question--this 
whole town is weird!)  I noticed that he stuttered a lot at most times, but
when it came to Abigail, he was really intense, and his stutter disappeared!

Which brings me to the leap...Manomanoman.  How many damn times is Sam going
to sleep with a woman this season?????  Hey!  You!  Yeah, you!  The writers!
SAM is a PRUDE!!  He does NOT sleep with any and all women that he meets!
OKAY???  *stands panting and showing teeth*  Okay.  Now that I've calmed down
a bit, I have really only one thing to say...Ohhhh Boy!  Sam is about to marry
Abigail!  Oh boy!

A friend of mine said that Al was unusually subdued...When I took the time to 
actually *think* about it, I realized that she was right!  Of course, having to
tell your best friend that he's going to DIE that night with a 10-yr-old kid
isn't the way to cheer up...but, unless I'm totally wrong, Sam's been in bad
situations before and Al always managed a few smart remarks, or a lewd comment
about a woman, or...or something!  Was it just me?

On the lighter side...Al!  You finally wore an outfit with a modicum of taste!
Stop it right now! :)  Even the white-shirt-with-black-polka-dots under the 
sweatervest didn't do much to...ummm...relegate his outfit into the realm of
tastelessness from which most of his clothes come. Unlike the totally apropros
blue shirt with the metallic purple tie and the iridescent paisley blue-and-
pink vest he wore on the first day of Sam's leap! Oh well...he wears black
leather next week! :)

In conclusion, *a light bulb goes off in her head* I'VE GOT IT!  Abigail's
family were all Satanist witches, and...What?  Oh...that's what it says in the
promos?  Oh, dear...Another Halloween Episode...:)

__NOVA__
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Sam: "I got some of your libido..."
Al:  "And you *still* acted like a prude!"
	--"Lee Harvey Oswald", referring to the simoleap
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