Ok, let's recap here:
According to everything that's been posted since my last post, this should be the semi-correct (fully correct, unless I omit things which I tend to do sometimes) timeline for Angelique:
In 1690 she's known as Miranda DuVal and accuses and helps bring Judah Zachary to justice. She travels to Martinique where she dies and then is reborn as Angelique, in the same country. While living here she meets Barnabas on a seafaring trip and they fall in love for a short time, only for Barnabas to leave her for Josette and then eventually head back to the homeland. Angelique arrives at Barn's doorstep in 1795 as Josettes maid. Barnabas kills Angelique in 1796 by shooting her. She is sent back to the underworld, or hell, or Haites, whichever, but returns each year on the anniversary of her death, their marriage, or some other such occurance (I like the idea of it being her death) and visits Barnabas's gravesite to be sure he's still locked up. She realizes in 1840 that he's not, and that whole deal ensues.**
From here, she disappears once again only to resurface in 1968 as Cassandra Blair Collins, inflicting her Dream Curse on those at Collinwood. She becomes a vampire after Nicholas shows up, and eventually turns him in, returning to the underworld AGAIN to watch him burn. When Barnabas shows up in 1897, Angelique is envoked by Quentin and Evan to go up against Barnabas. We know that this comes after the events of 1968 because Angelique and Julia know each other. When Barnabas travels back to 1796 again on his way to present time, Angelique is killed by Ben Stokes. Now, this is either a doppleganger, or Angelique followed from 1897, which I prefer to believe, fully knowing that Barnabas would try to get Josette yet again.
Here's where the tricky part comes in:
Angelique shows up in 1970 as Mrs. Rumson. We know she's been there for quite some time, because, as others have mentioned, she's had sufficient time to set up a modeling career, court and fall in love with Skylar, and get married. So, there are a couple of solutions to this:
1. After she followed Barnabas back to 1796 to stop his reuniting with Josette again, she goes back to the present, but not the same present that Barnabas arrives in. No, she goes back a few months earlier than that to allow herself time to fall in love with Sky and become established. But, this doesn't make too much sense because how would she have known that she was going to meet and fall in love with Sky? Unless, and this thought just occured to me, her master became angry with her for following Barnabas back to 1796 to mess with him and Josette again, when she was most likely ordered to only to the bidding of Quentin and Evan, to complete the mission she was called there for. Not to mention that Diablois most likely had a hand in the Leviathan fiasco since Nicholas came along to be grand master flash of the whole operation.
2. When Barnabas took the travel through time route back to the present when he was captured by the Leviathans, they in fact put him into a parallel time where they had already put their plans in motion. In this time, 1968/9 PT, Angelique left Collinsport but did NOT follow Barnabas back to 1897, if he even went in this time, but rather moved on with her life and became a famous model, allowing her to find Sky and marry him.
**The thing that is confusing about 1840 is that since it's established that Angelique moved directly to this time from 1795/6, then she would remmeber everything that happened here when she arrived in 1968. Thusly, she would remember professing her love for Barnabas and releasing him from her curse just before she died (again). But, it seems that in 1968 she did not remember this because she intended to cause pain to Barnabas. Not to mention the fact that Barnabas was a vampire in 1966 when he was released, and was NOT released from Angelique's curse. The only thing that would somewhat make the whole scenario make sense would be that because 1840 Angelique didn't know that she would later show up as CBC, she also didn't know that Barnabas would be attempting to woo Vicki and Maggie, or that Julia would be lusting after him so much. So, she arrived there to screw up those plans of his being happy because, as we all know very well, if Angelique can't have Barnabas, then no one can. And she couldn't very well have him because she was dead and had been dead since 1840.
So, this is all quite confusing. It seems that there are several dopplegangers for Barnabas and Angelique out there, or that several of the worlds that Barnabas returned to when he traveled through time were actually Parallel Times, and not the time he left. The only thing that makes me wonder about that theory is that if Barnabas did in fact return to a parallel time of his time, the events would have to be so closely related that the only thing that some of the characters had to make different decisions about would be whether to pee now or later and whether to eat steak or chicken. It seems unlikely, to me anyway, that the PT thing works because 1970PT was so different from 1970RT that it would seem that any other PT universe should be significantly different than the home universe that we all know. That doesn't have to be true, of course, but it would be in keeping with the tradition of the PTs that were shown in the show.
Anyone care to sit down and work out a Barnabas timeline, with all his body switching included?
