It really is a shame that VampStokes was destroyed by Jeff -
- because can't you just imagine what a formidable and amazingly cunning adversary Stokes might have been if they had done a direct sequel to hoDS?! And given that it's implied (with Barnabas' body disappearing and a bat flying away) that Barnabas wasn't really destroyed, just imagine the storyline possibilities. Would Barn and Stokes have joined forces? Would they have been enemies? Would Stokes have come around to the idea that vampirism is quite possibly a disease and want to be cured? Though he seemed to have been having a great time while he was attempting to attack Jeff (and did that fact tell us something about Stokes that we never knew?). The possibilities could have been myriad. But alas...