The Downton Abbey press pack appeared while in the midst of writing this—so if it seems disjointed in composition blame Julian Fellowes and the utterly compelling badassery of his period drama. And pretty, did I mention the PRETTY?

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All right, on with the other show that drives me crazy. First of all, I love that Audrey is picking an apartment—I’ve been wondering when they were going to address the fact that she’s been living in a B&B for so long. Must be expensive.

Duke renting to the Audreys could have been the makings of a Three’s Company hilarity level sitcom. As much as I would love to see that (just imagine it for a minute, seriously.) I find what really happened in ‘Love Machine’ a bit more compelling. Our all-important title is a song reference this week folks. The Miracles sang it in 1975, and I believe there are several covers done by other people around. The episode has more than a few details relating to song including Audrey’s innate/repressed ability to play the piano, Duke’s ADORABLE Elvis impression and the wind chimes.

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Nathan in his raincoat. Be still my heart. That man is SO adorable without even trying.

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A boat can be a murder suspect in Haven.

By the way, the fate of the Sea Star/Maggie Kelly seems oddly Audrey/Lucyish to me- salvaged, renamed—even though it’s “bad luck”.

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Love. Machine. The machines love Louis. The machines remembered and loved the man who brought them back to life— like a psychopathic jealous lover, it was simply impossible to allow him to leave.

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This episode is such an interesting social comment because we as a culture are increasingly attached and form some sort of love bond with our machines. How could we live without them? Our attachment to them has grown unhealthily strong. This story queries what could happen if the opposite were true.

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Love can also be like one of these machines- mowing down whatever gets in it’s way to be with the one they love. Does this Love Machine idea transcend into Duke and Evi’s relationship as well though? She claimed to have gotten the file for him, but I feel like she’s playing the long con- there’s something she’s not telling. It almost seemed to me though, that Duke conned her into getting that file for him as insurance in case Fraudrey really did double-cross him.

That file is damn confuzzling to me. It has a map (still trying to determine of what island exactly) with drawing of the Tattoo on it—which means that Fraudrey might have known a bit more than we thought—and since we know Evi would have read it, she’s well versed in whatever that file holds now. That girl needs to let us know what her real deal is. It will get tiresome pretty fast having another character that you can never trust.

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All of these machines had memories—they remembered being fixed by Louis’ touch.

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Which parallels Audrey and the piano to an extent: Procedural memory is like a mechanical memory that humans have. It remembers things that you can do almost instinctively—like signing your name or playing your favorite song on the piano. Your song was originally a hit in 1970 by the ever lovely Sir. Elton John. We can assume that Lucy played it a lot. However—it being a romantic or love song, there is the possibility that she was playing it TO someone she loved. (Now that would be interesting.) The scene with the player piano was perfection. Sitting at an instrument/machine that is programmed to play- you discover that you are as well.

Also, Someone on the Haven writing staff has apparently been reading Wikipedia.

<I’m not even joking that is a grab from their Amnesia article.>

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Not too many laughs in this episode. Hope that’s not a too often recurring trend. Don’t get me wrong I like a darker episode, but not every week. Fax machine was friggin hilarious though. “It’ll bleed less if we leave’em in.” What a perfect Nathan line— sums up so much of his character right there.

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The G.P.S. coordinates. (fiddled with the contrast to see the numbers)

NOTICE IT SAYS HAPPY B-DAY?

BlackHoward you are a creep. What the heck does that mean?

Looked ‘em up- and quite predictably there is nothing there. Go figure. It is in Maine though. I guess the barn/house took the island with it when it left…

And ‘Kick-em Jenny’ is an active volcano on the floor of the Caribbean sea.- near Grenada, off the coast of Venezuela. It’s a cool name though.

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So about this barn/house/TARDIS thing. I was literally not even surprised when it disappeared. Why should anything on this show ever make actual physical sense?

It LOOKS like a normal old barn, but I’m assuming it doesn’t look like a normal barn on the inside—thus the ‘what the hell’ comment from Fraudrey. (Whovians, I was secretly hoping that she’d walk in and say “It’s bigger than the outside.” Teehee)

Under the barn when it dissapparated was, not dirt or the remains of a foundation, dead grass, like when you leave a kiddie pool on the lawn too long. The thing is—eventually the grass would decompose, so it couldn’t have been there a terribly long time, just enough that the grass would brown.

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The idea of memory really made me think this week. Lucy Ripley’s memories- were they lost? Was it a mistake that she lost her memory? Or planned/intentional, as Fraudrey’s wipe seemed to be? Fraudrey only lost her episodic memory—the specific timeline of personal memories that every person has.

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Something we do know now: Love transcends whatever removes these memories. Fraudrey rememered Brad. Love can do things that we sometimes don’t have an explanation for. Love has always been at the center of the troubles, because it is such a core motivation in life. Although there is always the idea that ‘Brad’ was a memory after the Great Audrey Memory Split- making it Fraudrey’s own memory, and possibly easier to hold on to- so I dunno.

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The last scene with the two Audreys was beautiful. I love that ours identifies so strongly with this identity that she claims it as her own, confirming that her name remains Audrey, even as she is trying to tell Fraudrey who she was. I hope to see Kathleen Munroe back sometime- and I think we will.

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So we’ve finally heard word one about the Colorado kid this season. The connection between the memory phenomena confuses me. Did they all lose their episodic memory from their whole life? Or just from that day? Duke makes it seem like it was just that day, but did Lucy lose all of her memories?

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Duke is going somewhere. There is something big that we don’t know about him yet—and whatever it is, it’s going to change everything for him. I can just feel it, the way he’s being set up this season—there ‘s a change in the wind.

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Elie Goulding’s “Your Song” cover at the end is just gorgeous. Perfectly chosen.

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“My gift is my song.” Audrey and Lucy’s gift is truly akin to the gift of song. Something natural that cascades out from her: the compassion and understanding she has for troubled people flows out of her like the sweetest melody. It’s what she was made to do. That’s why she is in Haven; Haven needs her and won’t let her leave now that she’s helped to fix it.

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So NEXT week is when we meet Jason Priestley- hokay. Thought it was this one- my mistake.

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If you missed last episode’s random speculations.