The May 1st Episodes

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I never realized until today that Willie first moves into the Old House with Barnabas on May 1, 1967 - and he returns to the Old House after his release from Windcliff exactly one year later on May 1, 1968...

Also, I completely forgot that in Ep #220, just before Willie leaves Collinwood, he desperately tries to tell Liz something "important" but she absolutely refuses to listen to anything he might have to say. One can only presume that Willie wanted to somehow warn her about Barnabas in whatever way he was capable of doing so. Hmmm - so does this mean that because of Liz' refusal to listen, she could be accused of being at least partly to blame for everything Barnabas does?

[Raineypark]

No....we can't blame Liz for anything.  Even if she'd listened as patiently as a doting Grandmother, there was no way ANYONE would have believed Willie's fantastic Tale of the Vampire.

I"m sure you know how thrilled I am that we've come back around to these early images of Willie.....thank you, thank you, oh mysterious one.....

[BuzzH]

Hmmm - so does this mean that because of Liz' refusal to listen, she could be accused of being at least partly to blame for everything Barnabas does?

Karlenfan once wrote an essay where she said that Liz was so clueless to what was REALLY going on at CW that Barnabas could have flown into the drawing room in bat form, transformed into himself and bared his fangs and she STILL wouldn't have known he was a vampire.  To her, he was simply "dear cousin Barnabas"!  LOL!