It's everything else in the storyline that ruins DSs reputation, except C Blackburn and J Karlen, who kept acting like real actors no matter what, and added a lot of reality in the few moments they were on.     I think Marie Wallace's appearance started to turn things around.  She had real life and presence, and seemed to want to be there.   And at no time was the character "weak and womanly and dominated by men".    She knew her own self-interest and was biding her time so that she could leave in a better state than some woman in a black nightgown thumbing a ride or asking for handouts.  She didn't even know what a bus was, had no money, and knew better than to fumble her way into a completely unfamiliar world on her own.     Was she going to get a job someplace?

B: "You'll have to forgive my former fiancee!   She has laughed so hard and so long at everything you say and do, that her throat is extremely sore!"
Trask:  "NO!  It is the DEVIL'S work!!!"

It was bad enough turning Barnabas back into a vampire, but then Jeb gloated by singing the "Vamp" song from the Sonny and Cher Show...

V: "I am SO sick of hearing you go on about being buried alive, that I'm going to bury you alive!!    Get in the ground already!!" (gives Liz hard push into open grave with absolutely no buzzer system)

I appreciate the fact the writers didn't turn Barnabas into a goody-two-shoes once he became human again. He wasn't as evil as he had been as a vamp, but he wasn't really quite the same man he was back in 1795, before the curse.

All throughout the show I believe Barnabas was fighting an inner war within himself, between good and evil, that's what I always found fascinating about him. I can cheer for him and cry for him at times, other times I can be mad as hell at him and want to smack him upside his head. This to me is what made Barnabas such a fascinating character to me.

He could be very selfish, but he could also be caring and compassionate towards others.

Barnabas was a shades-of-gray type of character, not all good, not all evil. That's why I love him so.

Me too.  Exactly.  That's why I was hoping to see a 3-dimensional transition where we see the process where he goes from being twisted to having a real conscience.    

Any negative thoughts I express here do not in any way indicate lack of appreciation for the gift of all the tapes.  I'm in the grips of it all despite the occasional pothole.

BC says he has no intention of letting Adam run amok at Collinwood, goes and gets this big old rifle and stands there obviously meaning business... then Juila asks, "Barnabas, what are you going to do?!"   I'm going to challenge him to a game of pinochle, Julia!!  What does it look like?!

The very bad stretch of writing around this time, possibly the worst I've seen on DS, doesn't seem attributable to any writer.   Same old names.   It's picked up now fortunately, but these are older notes.

Good scene with Maggie staring down Willie in the crypt.  She summons up wisdom and courage there, and is obviously absolutely right, yet wrong in the context of the show.   BC can't be turned in.  Overall, the very cool transition I was looking forward to of Barnabas from dark to light didn't happen.   It was all a cheat.    Willie in particular views B as a benefactor and saint to be protected at all costs, for no apparent reason.

Thayer David, when he's been walking and has to stop, needs to teeter back and forth sideways before achieving stability and coming to a full stop.  I associate that instinctively with Petofi, but it's just TDs build I guess.

BC becoming human was a glorious opportunity wasted.    His first healthy entry into Collinwood should have been as affecting as his first in 1967.   His new life should have been a wellspring of compelling scenes and moments.    It should have been part of what DS was about for awhile.  Instead, it's back into a dark cellar for Barnabas, tending equipment.

Why kill Eve?  And a middle-aged rich guy with a syringe as an assassin?   Everybody at the Old House sort of lost their minds at this point.

I cannot believe Jeff's aimless babbling about V forgiving him for no reason worked.

Does Eve have the Petofi box in her bedroom?

I have more but I owe eyes and brain a favor and will knock off for now.

Is Eve just desperate or just plain stupid? I really don't understand her logic in all this.

Now I can come here, since in my viewing (first time since orig. airing) Eve is clearly gone... you know, who knows?  She could come back from anything on DS.   But anyway, as for the question asked, it's perfectly sensible.   People often wonder why an obviously unsensible character doesn't think or act sensibly.     People are different, with different views of the world and motivations than ours.

It's the most common thing in the world for one person to be so in love with another, or so infatuated, or fixated, or whatever (latter two in Eve's case I'm sure) that the infatuation is so overwhelming and so keenly felt by the first person, that he or she cannot imagine that the other person does not share in it.    This is experienced as something more solid than any logic.   I think that some people probably think of love as something separate from themselves, that exists "out there", in the space between the two people, or in a space enveloping the two people*, or else it wouldn't feel so enormous and "real".   What they feel is just inside themselves, though.

Besides, killers are selfish and self-obsessed.    They decide things for other people... whether they get to live, whether they're in love, whatever.   Not having the ability to call the shots doesn't occur to them.     Reality is what they say or think it is.

*Perhaps Prof. Stokes has a theory about this "love bubble".... an alternate state of existence that can't actually happen in our continuum....

Heheh, yeah little buddy, you got the clap.

I LOLed and felt creepy doing it!    What greater tribute...