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« on: May 01, 2013, 12:26:31 AM »
The word "vampire" is uttered for the second time.... for the second time! Since this is a redone scene, we can hardly count it as a third time...
Joshua uses Naomi's sensitivity as a weapon against Barnabas, threatening to tell Naomi if Barnabas doesn't behave. Does he mean it? Wasn't that the same unforgiveable threat that Nathan made?
I don't see how it helps to put Barnabas out of his own house, where he can relax like a person, and have some dignity, and stick him in the empty tower room in Collinwood. Barnabas can still do whatever he wants. Barnabas can explain that. Maybe Barnabas wants Joshua to feel he's impeding Barnabas, to prevent Joshua from staking him. Maybe it's just Joshua's mechanistic point of view... put a problem in a "box" and contain it as best you can. The family secret is now in the same house as Naomi now, though. I wonder if Joshua subsconsiously wants everything to go public, through some accidental meeting in Collinwood, so the family money can't go to Nathan.
Maybe it's a sort of unconscious "punishment" or gesture of control, on Joshua's part. Josh didn't want Barn to have the Old House (that was because of the marriage to Ang, but Josh hasn't had time to shift gears and forgive Barn for that yet), and he gets to feel he's subjugating and controlling Barnabas once again. Maybe he's even jealous of the Devil and the supernatural for usurping his parental rights!