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« on: August 01, 2008, 10:48:27 PM »
Where do I begin: making Barnabas and Elizabeth patsies to the Leviathans, killing off Vicki, bringing back Peter Bradford- those are some of what went wrong with the storyline.
However, there was something that Curtis and the writers failed to do and I am shocked- yes, SHOCKED no one else has brought up this topic within this discussion: they should've brought back Count Petofi!!! Without a doubt he was the greatest villain DS ever had, and I bet people who watched his firery confrontation with Garth Blackwood at the end of 1897 were looking forward to see him coming to 1969 to raise hell for Barnabas and a returned-to-Collinwood Quentin. After all, Angelique followed Vicki from 1796 to 1968 as Cassandra to get Barnabas for once and for all.
Ideally, Petofi should have come to 1969 with the Leviathans under his control as a way to achieve immortality and get revenge on the Collinses. So why didn't they bring back such a great character? Years ago I heard from a third party that Thayer David had told one of the 'studio fans' in late '69 that Petofi may be coming to the modern-day plotline. Who knows if the story is true, but can you imagine how better things would have been if Petofi were around and there was no Jeb/Bruno/Sky? What might have been. The writers were smart enough to build on the 1795 storyline with Angelique's return as Cassandra, so why not the same for 1897 with Petofi coming to 1969? A real missed opportunity!