With the scene between Barnabas and Angelique in his bedroom in 1795 Ep #368_369 coming up in the WP yesterday and a similar scene having come up in this slideshow yesterday and the day before, it struck me that I like how in the film there is no ambiguity as to what the Barnabas/Angelique relationship was:
1776 - Angelique: 'Let me hear you say "I love you, Angelique.
I want you."' 1776 - Barnabas: 'Angelique...I am sorry, my dear...but you
would be hearing a lie.' Apparently Barnabas used Angelique purely for sex and there was nothing beyond that on his part. And while ambiguity in their relationship in the original (and the '91) series probably works better because there's a much larger scope of storytelling available to be able to get into the truth behind all the he said/she said, in the film, with so much other storytelling to deal with and such a limited time to get into it all, it was much better that their relationship was explicitly spelled out. The audience knew without any ambiguity that Angelique believed Barnabas had used her - and that really helps to crystallize Angelique's motive for having turned Barnabas into a vampire because there aren't any openings to theorize that she hadn't been wronged.