I'm not sure I follow here. What I THINK you're saying is that Prof. Stokes should know who she is without any explanation at all? He should automatically know that she is Angelique and that she is a witch? This is kind of fuzzy to me, because by this logic, and please explain it to me if I'm wrong, Angelique would only be a LOOK-A-LIKE to Cassandra, but not actually Cassandra herself. Same way with Edward and Roger, Carl and Willie, etc etc. So while she looks like Cassandra, she actually isn't (although she really is because the viewer knows that Angelique stays the same everywhere). So why then, couldn't Barnabas and Julia just tell Stokes that she looks like Cassandra but that her name is Angelique, and let Stokes go from there?
Or is this what you're already saying?
Sorry Brandon, I'm almost completely lost concerning what you said... but I may as well say it here, my eye problem is making it so harmful for me to post that I'm not thinking straight. As I focus on the monitor, it's like my eyes are in vices. I need to absolutely never focus on anything for days or weeks to recover, but everything I do hurts and makes me worse, and it's hard to just sit still and do nothing for days. So the moment I got up I went back on the computer. It's horrible but I can't find a way out of the cycle. Pain killers are even causing reactions.
We've seen different sorts of plays, TV shows, and movies, and we've seen actors in different roles. Louis E played Roger and Edward, because they were using the same cast. The characters probably resembled each other, the ones that were related, but they are only "look-alikes" to us the viewers because their parts had to be polayed by a limited number of actors. You're being asked to suspend disbelief.
Stokes being a bright guy should have recognized Angelique unless she had put a spell over him, just because she's very distinctive-looking and Angelique tends to leave an impression, whatever name or wig she's using. She's certainly not "protected" by the cloaking shield of unrecognizability that keeps Julia, say, from saeeing Carl as Willie, because it doesn't exist. Angelique/Cassandra are exactly the same person, not different roles played by the same actress. It's one role. One person with one single face. Julia recognizes her. So should Elliot. So should ECS in 1970.
I don't know 1968 so I may be missing things for that reason.
1795 was a sort of special case, because they set it up, apparently, on the idea that faces were mysteriously duplicated from 1967, maybe to ease the viewers' transition, because it would throw some viewers to see the same actors in different roles. I imagine that they hoped to explain it all later as a supernaturally-caused phenomenon, and maybe they did, since anything made in 1968 I have no access to. I think, though, that they just let that go. We were just supposed to forget about the "sea of familiar faces" thing I guess. All that is gone by 1897.
If i'm crazy enough to keep coming back online instead of stopping for a few weeks, maybe offer me some hot soup and cold compresses or something, which won't help, but are comforting--- I was at the ER once and morphine didn't help, so I don't know what to tell you. I'm looking for some source of comfort I guess, even a symbolic one. God my eyes hurt. My life is all about my eyes hurting, I almost said, except for the other huge symptoms involved, so I guess I can't say that.