Tim Burton has always received my praise for his version because he did the one, faithful thing, taken straight from the DS bible, something even Dan Curtis turned into heresy in his attempts to remake the show ('91 and '04 [which had his fingerprints all over it]), something to me that is sacrosanct: Maggie Evans is the reincarnation of Josette, not Victoria. Curtis wasn't loyal to his original work, but Burton was.
Gerard