I just started boxset 9 yesterday, which includes a whole smattering of episodes I've yet to see.
Let me layout the scene for you: (Topic contains spoilers from 1968 Dream Curse Storyline)
Vicki is avoiding Barnabas in an attempt to not tell him the dream curse, Barnabas comes to her anyway because he doesn't want her to suffer. This is a great scene except for one little thing....
...Vicki wants to know why Angelique would want to see Barnabas dead. Barnabas reasons that it's some leftover grudge against the original Barnabas Collins. Vicki then stands next to Barnabas and says something along the lines of, They said the original Barnabas went to England and died there, but he didn't, he died here in the Old House.
HELLO?!?!
Then WHO praytell is the gentleman standing NEXT TO YOU?!
I know the writers dumb down the characters a bit sometimes, but this is just plain ludicrous.