He told me last week that it was staying down for now.  Beyond that, you'd have to ask him.  His email is visible in his profile.

Barnabas (enters singing) : How'd you do. I see you've met my faithful..handy man...

 

   You guys are too much.

Hmm, I like it, dvlvan.  The characters did seem to cope with stress differently.  If I may give it a shot...

Liz -- avoidance  (Mentally, physically, you name it)
Roger -- denial  ('Nuff said?)
David-- acting out  (Can you say bleeder valve?)
Barnabas -- rationalization  (He always had an excuse for behaving badly.)
Professor Stokes -- intellectualization  (Focusing on facts and logic instead of his feelings)
Angelique-- attacking  (When she feels threatened by someone, even if it's just in her imagination, she just puts a spell on them.)
Julia -- idealization  (Playing up the good points of her relationship with Barnabas)

Have fun on your birthday, QuentinsGal!

Thank you for sharing your timeline theories, PennyDreadful!  I printed them out and am looking forward to poring over them. 

Wait. .wasn't Cassandra already dealt with by the time Quentin's ghost came around.. . so from 1795 to 1968 back to 1795--then brought from 1795 to 1897 by Q and E .. .so i don't see why Angelique should've known about Q's ghost. . ??

But Cassandra came back in #655.

[spoiler]Still fixated on Liz for some unknown reason (but no doubt brought about to provide an excuse while Joan appeared on stage), Cassandra showed up at Collinwood to cast a deathly spell on Liz.  By that time, Quentin's ghost had already murdered the psychic Janet Findlay.  The next time we see Angelique is in 1795 (1796/whatever) when she tells Barnabas she was sent there as punishment for her behavior in 1968.[/spoiler]

then has to decide whether to sacrifice her/him to save himself and cure the curse.    Presumably the blood makes his whole person fairly indestructable, including his hand, even when separated.

Well, this is all speculation, but could make for some fascinating fanfic, I'm sure. 

Anyone know where the Forest of Azhden?? (sp?) is, and what historical etc. significance may have led the writers to make reference to it?

Unfortunately, I don't think fans have ever figured that one reference out.

Welcome, Roland!

It's been over a year since i saw this . .didn't Angie get pulled into 1897 by Quentin and his buddyEvan Handley's over curiosity . .not Barnabas. . ? They cunjured her up at the caretakers cottage...

No, it was definitely to deal with Barnabas.  My own explanation for Angelique's presence in the original timeline is that Quentin and Evan must've found some other reason to summon her from the flames.  After all, Evan came up with the plan to conduct a ceremony to call someone from the netherworld very quickly after Quentin proposed that they needed to do something about Barnabas.

But if Angelique had been Cassandra in the '60's wouldn't she have known all about Quentin and how he would die?

I think that's an excellent question.

The timeline for Angelique (so far; 1840 screws it up)  goes like this:  1795 to 1968, back to 1795, to 1897.  The proof that she existed already in 1968 is that...

[spoiler]in 1897, she knows David, she recognizes Julia, she knows Chris' secret, she reacts when called "Cassandra", and she flat out admits that she was there previously.  Wouldn't she have known about Quentin's ghost?[/spoiler]

It just feels to me as if the writers hadn't fully thought-out the implications of what they were doing (a rarity, actually, for the DS writers).

I agree with Magnus Trask that it happened more frequently than that.  Angelique's history is but one more example, but that's a subject for another topic.