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« on: January 20, 2009, 03:56:37 AM »
Lydia-- As I see it: At the point when Julia talked to Beth's ghost, Barnabas had already gone back to 1897 and changed many things. What Beth told Julia reflects those changes. If Julia had tried to have that conversation pre-I-Ching, her answer would have been different.
Voiceovers are there partly to make viewers comfortable with the strange ideas in the plot. For those viewers who can't quite handle time-travel, they claim time raced back to 1897, but it didn't, only Barnabas did that. The viewer's perspective changed, not time. I think voiceovers are therefore not "canon".
Lydia, you don't like Angelique?! I love her re-appearance. It makes up for all the OTT 1968 business I think. The language involved is really atmospheric, and full of a sense of significance. It's more than that, but I can't articulate it. Suddenly the character is reinvigorated by just this one scene.
Evan and Q might have called for a rep from the Devil for some other stategem involving the will, I suppose, the "first time around". They probably would have received a different person in Evan's fireplace.