Ang's motivations in the Revival are so vague. Barn and Ang have maybe two or three scenes together in the whole of the 1790 story so the idea that Ang is in love with Barnabas (and thus is her motivation for everything that comes after) just doesn't fly with me. Plus I really don't like the actress playing Ang. However evil or twisted her motivations were, I had no trouble believing that Lara's Ang really did love Barnabas.
I liked the revival at the time, and looking back, I can see where Curtis might have had that impression, Lydia, because it was mine. At the time I watched the revival on original broadcast, the only original DS I had seen up to then was the syndication package starting with Barn's arrival and ending just after Vicky got back from 1795. The revival, certainly does cover all the important bases, and looking back ISTR ticking all the boxes as they occurred. but now it really comes across as just a going through the motions exercise. All the events are there but hardly any of the emotions, the character, the depth, and given that a years worth of weekday episodes are being shoehorned into 12 episodes, perhaps that not very surprising. I find myself wondering if the Revival had taken a slower pace and did the modern day Barnabas story in those 12 episodes cliffhanging on Vicki's trip into the past, if the show might not have been renewed? Or at least aged better?
One wonders how does the 2004 Pilot compare to the revival? Pity I will probably never get a chance to see it...
If DS were ever to be given a new least on life as a primetime series, I think it still has a very workable concept. One only has to look at Heroes (the only other broadcast TV show I really watch) to see that serialized high concept storytelling is still alive and well and can be done well and is certain proof (in my mind) that the show doesn't have to pander to a WB style audience to be popular with that demographic.