Oh, dear, I liked Sandor, and I liked the relationship between him and Magda. Couldn't they have gotten somebody else - Addison Powell, perhaps? - to play Victor Fenn-Gibbon?
Wow... you don't like Petofi much, do you? For me, Thayer David as Petofi is the height of DS. Sandor's amusing sometimes, but he didn't get to do much; had the odd funny line here and there, but was basically an attachment of Magda's.
I think if Barnabas hadn't consoled Magda, I might have gone with other people's assessment that he was a selfish hypocrite and nearly a villain. When you're pressured and perhaps miserable it gets harder and harder to take others' feelings into account, as much as you might want to. I know, especially from these past few weeks. You just have to focus on tasks to get done that might free you and let you heal later.
I think when he dismissed Magda's "gypsy feelings", he was talking about premonitions, not emotions.