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« on: July 17, 2012, 01:29:53 AM »
like victoria's "clueless" gothic ingenue role the burke devlin character has not help up well in the post-feminist age. he's a throwback. a world class male chauvinist. but in 1967 pretty par for the course in the world of daytime television.
i didn't see him as wanting to cut vicki off from her "support system". not liz or carolyn or maggie. and when david was going off the deep end he allowed(unwisely, in retrospect)their wedding to be put off indefinitely so she could stay at collinwood and care for him until he was well.
what burke objected to, quite correctly, was vicki spending time around barnabas and at the old house. where, it should be noted, there was a coffin in the basement with her name on it. he suspected barnabas was a liar...and he was. he thought that he was involved in maggie's kidnapping...and he was. all of burke's insticts about barnabas were, at the time, correct. it's easy to forget that because of his domineering personality.
it was not until burke's departure that barnabas gradually became the series' doomed romantic antihero. but during the devlin era he was pretty much rotten.