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Current Talk '03 II / Re:FAVE Magazine
« on: November 26, 2003, 07:57:40 AM »Uhh the fact that he was a blood sucking, murdering vampire somehow makes him more sympathetic?? He wasn't so reluctant in the movie.
I didn't imply that Barn was sympathetic or reluctant in hoDS. But by that same token neither is Julia. Julia didn't overdose Barnabas to save humanity from a vicious vampire - primarily, she overdosed him because she was jealous of his relationship with Maggie and she wanted revenge because of what she perceived to be a betrayal of her feelings for him, completely ignoring the fact that Barn had never professed anything but gratitude towards her. As I said earlier, as edited and released, anything more to their hoDS relationship was purely in Julia's own mind. Indeed, it's made perfectly clear that Barn didn't even have the first clue about how deeply Julia felt towards him. By overdosing Barn, Julia wasn't exactly acting from a loftiness of purpose and heroism - her motivation was far more cold-blooded, sinister, selfish, and hardly what most would consider to be admirable in any way, shape, or form.
One of the reasons I generally dislike hoDS as much as I do is that so many of the chararcters are just so very different from their TV series counterparts. :- Much of hoDS' plot and characterization may have been DC's original vision of what he would have liked to have seen on the series, but I for one am extremely grateful that an almost completely different concept actually won out...