I'd say that Barnabas, full knowing Angelique was the cause of Josette falling in love with Jeremiah, and furthermore considering the great sadness Barnabas felt in killing Jeremiah, you'd think then Barmabas would have had sympathy towards Burke instead of hostility
I'd have to agree w/this wholeheartedly. Although it doesn't lessen my love of DS, it annoys the hell out of me that they completely changed the background of Barnabas' pre-vampire days. Now, having said that, I like what they ended up doing, making Barn more sympathetic and more of a victim etc...rather than a boorish jackass who stole, or tried to steal at least, his "middle-aged" uncle's wife. So, even though the inconsistancy of them having him go from this jerk to someone we'd actually care about and cry with bugs me, I do think the change was the right one.
On a related note, more than one fan has suggested that when Vickie traveled back to 1795, that she *actually* went to a PARALLEL 1795 and subsequently returned to the future of that PT 1795. And as we all know, in 1968, when Barn is cured and Vickie goes back to be w/Peter and we learn of her hanging via David's photograph, I think Barnabas even says to Julia that he remembered Vickie being in the past after all, rather than it being Phyllis Wick. I tend to agree w/the theory that when Vickie left the present, she went to an alternate universe, not only to the past. That at least helps me cope w/the plot inconsistancies before that infamous seance.