I would have liked to have seen Barnabas make his way back to 1794 or 1793, correct or battle the wrongs that were done with Angelique, and then marry Josette and stay in his own time where he belongs
I have considered this also. Once Barnabas learned that time travel was possible and he had done it a few times, I think it would occur to him that he might go back to the year before when he went to Martinique and first met Angelique, he'd give her a wide berth! Then he could have had the happy life with Josette [spoiler]that he had in Will Loomis' first book about Barnabas Collins in which he marries Josette and lives until 1830.[/spoiler] Though it seems this story would be boring by comparison to what actually happened, it would have been happy and the 1795 Barnabas deserves that. He did not deserve all the wicked things that happened to him courtesy of Angelique.
Of course whenever I mention something like this someone will always say, oh but then we wouldn't have had a show! True.
The time travel paradox always has gaping holes & irony; maybe that's why I love it so much. What "if" Barnabas went back to undo the Angelique encounter? Having foresight (or in time travel, is it hindsight? damm...) he could take Julia Hoffman with him. They wear charms to protect themselves. Dr. Hoffman mixes more of her gourmet 'dry-ice' serum & cure Angelique's witchcraft while she's strapped in that cellar chair. To keep Angelique happy while she's tied down, they give her a David Collins doll, just barely within reach on the chair's armrest, to stick pins in & amuse herself. After a brief period where she morphs into a disgustingly old Mother Teresa caricature, she is cured of her animosity & petty jealousy. Angelique & Ben Stokes marry on the same day that Barnabas and Josette do. No, it's not a splendid joint ceremony; Angie & Ben are servants, & must wed in the stables. As Angelique walks down the aisle, a well-meaning but clumsey Clydesdale steps on her train. In humilation, Angelique runs off into the woods crying. Sadly, a freakishly similar incident occurs during Josette's ceremony (if only they had abided by Naomi's no indoor horses policy), and she runs off into the woods also! Both women collide in the dark on widower's hill, plunging them both into the ocean!! Barnabas & Ben join the French foreign legion to forget, where they meet & serve for Napoleon.
Napoleon, an assortment of dead limps, and poorly constructed, must keep a hand under his vest, to secure the one loose thread that could cause him to completely unravel. Along comes Ben, a well-meaning but clumsey French soldier, .... (To be continued; maybe; unless I get bored...or forget)
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