I've always held a feeling that Dan Curtis held a grudge against Alexandra Moltke for becoming pregnant and leaving the show halfway through her five-year contract. First he recasts 'Vicki' with that
horrible Betsy Durkin (I've always called her "Betsy-Wetsy" for her onscreen hysterics- I didn't kick the screen in, but I slapped it about a few times!), then during the Leviathan storyline he (with Hall & Russell) had her bumped off by Jeb Hawkes offscreen, ruining the happy ending that was created in the 1796 return with Carolyn Groves as Vicki. (Ironically, Ms. Groves was an Alexandra lookalike who should've been put under contract- in her few days of episodes she brought Vicki back to life, something that Betsy failed to do in several WEEKS of episodes!)
Like so many here on this board, I too wanted to kick the screen during Barnabas' 'declaration of love' to Angie's rotting corpse in 1840- "my only love", my ass! This guy's spent nearly
200 years mooning over Josette (not to mention chasing after Maggie/Vicki/ 2 Roxannes/Rachel) while despising the bitch who killed his uncle/sister/mother through different eras. So she got plugged by Lamar Trask- good riddance- and suddenly Barnabas says
'I take it all back'Worse yet, poor Julia had to wach it all! At least there's one consolation: with Vicki, Roxanne, and Angelique dead (and Maggie in Wyndecliffe), Julia will
FINALLY have Barnabas all to herself!