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Current Talk '24 I / Re: And Yet Another New Slideshow
« on: September 28, 2013, 09:43:29 PM »Victoria's screentime was horribly cut. Her character and development would make little sense to an outsider, but to people like us, who love the original, it's really a blessing to have received what we did, but a curse knowing that there is so much more that never made it into the movie. That's where all of the rest of the good stuff was, I'm sure.
I don't doubt for a second that much of Vicki's part was cut from the film (in fact, I plan to make an upcoming post about one thing that I'm really disappointed was cut), but I would disagree that as edited Vicki's arc makes little sense. Her arc would certainly seem to be that she overcame a great deal of suffering in her life to reach her true destiny. And much of that destiny was to reach Collinwood, to meet Barnabas, to at last find a home, and to become an important part of Barnabas' existence. Vicki says as much in the current scene in the slideshow and particularly in yesterday's quote:
1972 - Vicki: 'For most of my life, I've wanted a place where
I belonged. A place where I could feel at home again. Feel
loved again. And I've found that place here at Collinwood.'
And I would also add the concluding part of that where Vicki says "And here" as she steps in to kiss Barnabas passionately.
Granted, it's a different arc from what we saw in the original series, and on that front it departs from how much of the film draws from the situations/characterizations in the pre-Barn eps - but it is a valid arc in which all the pieces are indeed there within the film. And one could go so far as to say Vicki's ultimate fate in the film could also be seen as her ultimate destiny. But we should wait until the December slideshow to discuss anything related to Vicki's ultimate destiny.