As much as I like the looks of Quentin and Maggie as a couple, their PT characters remind me of my best friend and his SO. No matter what one says, the other one turns it into a fight.
"Isn't the sky really blue today?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"What do you mean, what do you mean? I was just saying..."
"I know what you were saying!"
"I didn't say anything! I said..."
"It's how you said it!"
And it goes on and on. And there ain't even a living-dead witch involved.
Gerard,
I think that Mr. and Mrs. Collins could be the subject of one of those articles that appears in the lifestyle section of the newspaper:
"Maggie and Quentin: Can This Marriage Be Saved?"
However, I think the more relevant question is/should be:
"Maggie and Quentin: Should This Marriage Be Saved?"
As to Parallel Time Roger Collins, I know that he is a no good, s.o.b./lush, but, you have to admit that he does have a deliciously inspired, mordant wit. (In comparing Maggie to Angelique: "Like comparing a mouse to a sable.") And, of course, Roger articulates his well chosen words/insults with such flair and style!
Yes, PT Roger does have an "affection for accuracy," although, sitting around the great house of Collinwood all day, getting "expletive deleted-faced," does give one ample time to come up with all of these caustic comments/observations. So, I guess that it's begrudging kudos to PT Roger Collins, the Oscar Levant of Dark Shadows!
Bob the Bartender, who, regretably feels that Maggie and Quentin's attendance at a Cursillo and/or Couples for Christ Meeting, would ultimately be a "Mission Impossible."