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« on: November 29, 2009, 09:05:12 AM »
He had no choice in his manner, in other words? Maybe, though he's more his usual self with others right now. The viewers could have been kept in doubt as to why Barnabas was saying these things to Carolyn, through a more normal delivery from him. Everything he's saying to her now makes perfect sense, and as far as the viewer knows, he could be saying it all independently of the mysterious influence on him that we don't know much about yet.
I was going to say he'd have more influence with Carolyn sounding less sinister, but he did fine with her, didn't he? Come to think, when he was a vampire in 1967, he could come into that house, voice dripping with velvet covered ironic menace, and he'd just be good old kindly harmless cousin Barnabas. So Carolyn is used to this from him, from earlier on. It's strange to see Carolyn taking on the Victoria Winters role though, doing stuff just because Barnabas keeps repeating that she should.