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« on: March 13, 2008, 06:04:01 PM »
No, HE deserved to be repaid. No amount of help from Ang makes up for killing Barnabas's family.
I think the 1840 scene works, but not because B really did love her all along. I don't know why we have to accept anything that comes out of a character's mouth about his own feelings as gospel. How many of us know what our real feelings are? If B had been a saint or even an average fairly innocent man, he would never make that declaration, but by this point, they've both had similar histories, feeling compelled to do anything, including murder, to satisfy passions, so Ang actually taking the first difficult steps toward reforming, for real, just completed the picture. They were alike. It wasn't Ang all along... it just felt that way at that moment, reappraising the whole history.
It's true that he may not have really known Josette that well, but the real beneficiary of that realization would be Julia, I think. He's closer to Julia than anyone else. Ang would just be yet another passion he got carried away with.