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« on: April 23, 2017, 10:59:53 PM »
At a certain point in my rewatchings, it became almost impossible to see Barnabas as a positive character.
There wasn't so much of a believable transition or transformation shown, as there was a sort of lurching forward and backward and forward in morals from him. It was more like a rebooting of him, after long enough a time had passed that they thought the audience wouldn't know or remember what he was like before.
He was vicious. They really built up a sadistic and intimidating picture of him. The first definite sign of reformation seemed to be, for me, when he was trusted with the kids in 1968/9?, taking over as a godfather when Liz and Roger were out of the picture... and all I can say then is, oh, if only everyone knew who they were trusting...