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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0214
« on: January 22, 2007, 01:29:30 AM »
lydia,
if i may i think we are talking about two different things.
i wasn't thinking so much about how vicki's attitude towards barnabas might have softened over time had they been "real" people(which it certainly might have)but more in terms of how the writing for the character changed after a certain point.
in these very early episodes when the thought was that barnabas would function strictly in a villainous role,and for a thirteen week cycle,it's not inconceivable that vicki was meant to get wise to him at some point just as she had during the previous(laura collins)storyline.indeed she might have been threatened as part of his intended demise however...
once it became clear that barnabas was becoming a wildly popular character and his run extended they changed the writing for victoria so that she no longer had any doubts about him whatsoever...she became fond of him(thus blinded to his oddness)and it changed her character's nature.hence the dawn of the perpetually "clueless" vicki we all know and love/hate.
if i may i think we are talking about two different things.
i wasn't thinking so much about how vicki's attitude towards barnabas might have softened over time had they been "real" people(which it certainly might have)but more in terms of how the writing for the character changed after a certain point.
in these very early episodes when the thought was that barnabas would function strictly in a villainous role,and for a thirteen week cycle,it's not inconceivable that vicki was meant to get wise to him at some point just as she had during the previous(laura collins)storyline.indeed she might have been threatened as part of his intended demise however...
once it became clear that barnabas was becoming a wildly popular character and his run extended they changed the writing for victoria so that she no longer had any doubts about him whatsoever...she became fond of him(thus blinded to his oddness)and it changed her character's nature.hence the dawn of the perpetually "clueless" vicki we all know and love/hate.