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« on: June 14, 2013, 11:51:51 PM »
"Transformation" and "reformation" aren't the right words, are they.... as I said, it's gradual. This is still the one specific moment where he decides for the first time that there's such a thing for him as a moral line beyond which he won't go, anymore. You can't doubt that he means it when he says it, and modern Barnabas never thought or said it before. He does waver and fall off the wagon, but as I recall, the killings do stop until he's [spoiler]a vampire again. And even then, he fights his vampire nature pretty well.
He is about to tell Julia it's alright to take just one more life, but that's either clumsy writing, or he can't mean it. Jeff Clark was "just one more life", with nothing special about him other than that. With some other random person on the table, it would be the exact same situation, and Barnabas would have to stop it again.
I think Barnabas showed enormous patience with Adam, considering he was a vicious blood-sucking maniac until this point. The convenient thing would have been to kill Adam right away, which he wanted to do, but let himself be talked out of. Compare this to the Woodard situation.
For us, he's not too moral, but compared to what he was, it's almost a shocking reformation, even if he needs a good push now and then.[/spoiler]