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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Everyone In Collinsport's Favorite Word Slideshow
« on: September 17, 2021, 03:26:09 PM »
If you don't want to know the circumstances surrounding Wednesday's entry in this slideshow, then don't read any further...
[spoiler]Wednesday's quote:
Ep #406 (1796) - Angelique - 'I MUST make him hear me. I want him to know how sorry I am.'
From "#0405/0406: Robservations 03/20/02 - Cursed!"
The Robservations paraphrases the quote...
And something hit me that I never fully realized until after I saw that Midnite had picked this quote: from Angelique's POV she was sorry for cursing Barnabas and she didn't understand why he didn't accept that and forgive her. After all, to her mind it was his fault he was cursed because he shot her. Whether that belief is in any way based in reality or completely delusional is almost beside the point because it explains a great deal about Angelique's motivations throughout the rest of the series - if only he would have accepted her apology, she believed she would have acted differently from that point on. And who knows, maybe that would have been true, especially after Barnabas' big realization in 1840/41...
[spoiler]Wednesday's quote:
Ep #406 (1796) - Angelique - 'I MUST make him hear me. I want him to know how sorry I am.'
From "#0405/0406: Robservations 03/20/02 - Cursed!"
Barnabas, cautiously hopeful, tells Ben he shot Angelique--are you sure she's dead, Ben? Then Angelique, still holding her bloody shoulder, comes in and tells the two disappointed men she isn't dead and isn't going to die. Ben tries to keep her away from Barnabas, but she says she must look at him, and they must keep him alive. If he dies. . .never mind, she says savagely to Ben. She touches Barnabas' face and says she wants him to know how sorry she is. Ben explodes at her--first she puts a curse on the man, now she's sorry! He tried to kill me, says Ang, that's why I set the curse! But now she wants to reverse it..[/spoiler]
The Robservations paraphrases the quote...
And something hit me that I never fully realized until after I saw that Midnite had picked this quote: from Angelique's POV she was sorry for cursing Barnabas and she didn't understand why he didn't accept that and forgive her. After all, to her mind it was his fault he was cursed because he shot her. Whether that belief is in any way based in reality or completely delusional is almost beside the point because it explains a great deal about Angelique's motivations throughout the rest of the series - if only he would have accepted her apology, she believed she would have acted differently from that point on. And who knows, maybe that would have been true, especially after Barnabas' big realization in 1840/41...