I wonder if HAA is so engaging as Blair that we all actually want him to succeed, as if he's the good guy. Or am I just thoroughly evil? I'm sick of Barnabas basically continuing to be a bad guy, though, with no one around him thinking so. Generally the most positive he ever is is "neutral". He retains the cynicism and harsh demeanor of evil Barn, he just doesn't act on it anymore. The only reason we sometimes see him as the protagonist is that we saw him innocent in 1795, as a very admirable character whom we even saw become heroic for awhile. We remember that and give 1968 Barnabas a big pass. I'm sick of it. I want some real reformation to happen onscreen, not just things like: Barnabas guilted by Vicki's devotion to him into living up briefly to his better self. Barnabas isn't engaging, he's a pain.
How is it that Cass and Nick get to hang out in Vicki's room, and Barnabas and Julia later? They had Vicki give some sort of excuse for clearing out of her room, her feeling uncomfortable with the changed Ang portrait, but is she just lurking in the breakfast room eating Pop Tarts, while all the conferences in her room are taking place?
Ang dies yet again, Nick carries her off somewhere, Hell I guess. Barnabas thinks he's free. He thinks that at every opportunity, strange for someone we think of as so cynical. He really ought to stop saying his problems are over, he always jinxes the whole deal that way.
