I can't remember whether or not we ever get a heart-to-heart chat between Vicky and Maggie during this period. If we don't, then it's a great opportunity wasted. Two girls talking about how both of their boyfriends just won't spend any time with them anymore. I was thinking about this even before Angelique got her fangs into Jeff.
Of course, Joe's a far greater loss to Maggie than Jeff is to Vicky. Good heavens, how extraordinarily rude and immature of Jeff to tell Adam that Adam is disgusting! I fully understand that Adam is doing something dreadful at the moment - but Adam's current actions are not what Jeff is talking about, and furthermore I suspect that even if Adam were not threatening the girl Jeff loves, then Jeff would still be telling Adam that he's disgusting.
Nicholas cited Lucrezia Borgia as one of the most evil women who ever lived. If Rafael Sabatini's biography of Lucrezia's brother Cesare is to be believed, the Borgias weren't so bad after all; they just got bad press because their enemies outlived them. But Nicholas must be in a position to know Lucrezia's true worth, so in the Dark Shadows universe she was bad. Elizabeth Bathory, whom Nicholas also mentioned, seems more likely to have been a murderess in our world, though there are doubters about her as well - but not many, apparently. Either way, this insistence on extreme evil strikes me as sort of silly. I think that what would better suit Nicholas's needs would be a woman of little imagination but great organizational talents, who would do whatever Nicholas asked because it was no big deal and hey, why not? But I suppose that Nicholas, being the devil's minion, has to toe the ideological line.
