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The B Man did love members of his family: Naomi, Sarah & Jeremiah--up until Jeremiah eloped with Josette and Barnabas killed him for it, of course.
He obviously saw Josette as the shining example of womanhood, for better or worse, and Angelique's unique brand of love surely warped his mind: the destruction of his family, having Josette ripped away from him, being cursed by his affliction...well, we all know that Barnabas has issues. And being chained up in that coffin for 170 years didn't do much for his mental health.
I think when Barnabas was freed from his tomb, he saw an opportunity to make the world that he wanted in 1795, and he didn't care how he did it. He was a victim of a psychotic, evil supernatural social climber; Angelique not only ruined his life--she ruined any chance he had of finding peace in death.
Maggie's resemblance to Josette drove him even more batty--no pun intended--that he already was; but, eventually, Barnabas learned that kidnapping a girl and jacking hard with her mind was no way to find true love. If Barnabas did indeed ever exhibit emotional growth, it was when he finally fell in love with Vicki for who she was, abandoning that dopey plan of re-creating Josette.
And while I dearly love Julia, she was as calulating and sociopathic as Barnabas was early on; she didn't care about helping Maggie, and while she was squeamish about putting the needle to Dr. Woodard, she did it anyway--because by that time she was truly Barnabas' co-conspirator, her own free will putting her in that horrible position.
If she really wanted to help Barnabas, she would've blown off the cure and helped put the horrors of the past behind him...
..She's the one I would have like to see him wind up with in the end ..
A write-in vote--Willie!
Seriously. . .
This has become a more difficult question for me as I grow older.
Should it be Josette, the long-lost love Barnabas tried so hard to re-create?
The loyal, loving, generous Julia, who stood beside him, a staunch friend to the end?
Angelique, his one legal witch-wife, the woman from his own century, who blackmailed him into marrying her, yet seemed to have a strong tie to him in spite of it all?
Actually, I think if Barnabas had had some serious therapy, the right mate for him would have been Vicki Winters, a modern girl with old-fashioned values and a love of the past. I believe they were well-suited to each other, and once he got over trying to replace Josette and accepted Vicki as a separate soul who loved him, they could have been very happy.
But I still think Willie might have been best of all!
This seems ideally suited for the new poll feature. . .wonder if i can get it to work??
**Holding Julia hostage so Roxanne could 'feed' off of her .. .
I have always considered PT Angelique and RT Angelique completely different characters. Therefore, there are certain things only PT Angelique did that RT Angelique didn't do. I, for one, didn't like PT Angelique at all, but I love RT Angelique. She didn't even have a reason to do the things she did, while RT Angelique truly believed she was doing the right thing.
Does everyone else consider these separate characters or both "Angelique"?
SPOILER.....SPOILER.....SPOILER.......SPOILER....SPOILER.
Right after that marriage fell apart she decided that once again she was still in love with Barnabas, who apparently was getting a bit too friendly with Maggie Evans. When Angelique saw that, she suddenly decides to put a love spell on Maggie & Quentin, to make them fall in love.
Another time in 1970PT when she found out that Julia wasn't her beloved Hoffman after all, she locks her up in the Collinwood dungeon and leaves her there.
