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« on: June 16, 2020, 07:27:35 PM »
I find this discussion very interesting. As someone who didn't really discover DS until around 1999/2000, I was immediately taken with Julia. First I found her annoying as a foil to Barnabas in the early episodes, but as their relationship developed she became very endearing and I cared for her. I think one of the hallmarks of the series is not the lost love between Barnabas and Josette, but the lost love between Barnabas and Julia. It's like the Mulder/Scully effect--will they ever get together or not? Many shows were based around this.
I don't know how intentional it was on the part of the writers, but Grayson certainly played it with a heavy undertone of Julia being in love with Barnabas and being willing to sacrifice her life for him, all of her own free will. This relationship differs from someone like Willie, whose relationship was bound by blood and Barnabas' control.