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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Admit it Barnabas.....you love her.
« on: June 02, 2003, 10:12:55 PM »
I don't think Barnabas ever loved Angelique. The whole point of their relationship in terms of the story was that she was a quick, easy lay who came back to haunt him in spades.
I do think his "declaration of love" in 1840 makes a weird kind of sense for the character. He basically suffers from some sort of romantic ADHD--I have no idea what a qualified counselor would call it, but it's sort of like the more helpless and pouty the girl, the more Barnabas "loves" her.
In recent years I've come to think it would be cruel to think of Julia yoked to this befuddled boor for the remainder of her years. I do love Connie's vision of a romantic triangle between Barnabas, Julia and Quentin a few years down the line from the end of the series. In real life, what probably would have happened is that everyone else would have deserted poor old Barn except for Willie. He would have stayed on, keeping the coffin hinges oiled and the bats out of the belfry. or so I've thought.
G.
I do think his "declaration of love" in 1840 makes a weird kind of sense for the character. He basically suffers from some sort of romantic ADHD--I have no idea what a qualified counselor would call it, but it's sort of like the more helpless and pouty the girl, the more Barnabas "loves" her.
In recent years I've come to think it would be cruel to think of Julia yoked to this befuddled boor for the remainder of her years. I do love Connie's vision of a romantic triangle between Barnabas, Julia and Quentin a few years down the line from the end of the series. In real life, what probably would have happened is that everyone else would have deserted poor old Barn except for Willie. He would have stayed on, keeping the coffin hinges oiled and the bats out of the belfry. or so I've thought.
G.