Ben prepares to kill the cat and apparently Joshua is unaware he's become a cat, because if I were Joshua I'd flee or at least claw the heck out of everyone I wanted. Andre turns down a drink and it reminds me that Sam never would.  I really tried to get over my dislike of David Ford, but it's not happening.

Ben is honing his little hatchet and Angeliques head appears and becomes huge. I'm guessing that was planned because its really huge and not the normal out of proportion chromakey. I wonder how long Barnabas has actually know Josette. Did he fall in love with her on first sight? And is all this strange behavior making him think she may be a lunatic? Apparently not. I wish they had actually changed Joshua into a cat onscreen. It's not that hard to do except for having the cat in place when you turn the camera back on.

Natalie's Tarot cards look remarkably like the ones my grandmother used in 1967. Wherever she got them must have been on the forefront of Tarot technology that they were still produced in the same way 170 years later. She sees lovers separated and death and betrayal and this leads to Vickie. Vickie is acting more like a lunatic than a witch, but then how many witches has she known? I recognize Dorries voice right away she used to be on another show I watched that Sam Hall would go onto destroy.

My favorite line so far is Angelique, "I make my own rules."
Another horrible wig on the skull. 

I wish they had actually started this story out in Martinique or done a flashback where Barnabas first fell in love with Josette and gave into the temptation of Angelique.

Thayer David gives a near-perfect performance throughout this story line, even though he is forced to cut logs with an implausibly small hatchet

Very modern and looking similar to the one he was going to use to  hack Vickie's head off.

Volume 29 MPI VHS tape has a cover photo that will forever bring me back to my youth to the day finding the book The Phantom and Barnabas Collins at the tiny paperback bookstore in Asbury Park, New Jersey. I got all my M. Ross DS books there. Once a week it was the bookstore and the record store that I spent my allowance.

That conjures up the memory of my cousin and I passing one of those swilvel paperbck bookracks and seeing that book which he bought and we checked through the whole rack and found three more which I bought. When we got home my uncle said he couldn't buy anymore as at 25 cents they were too expensive. Fortunalty my mother never told me what I could spend my allowance on.

Vickie's reaction to everyone is really irking me. She shoud know by now that they all look like someone she knew. I did like how they had her meet Ben in the room where he tried to kill her.

I also thought the Ben/Angelique scenes were good.  I'd never seen this episode before as I only had some of the VhS tapes of 1795. It was the first one that I actually was into.

We are told that time is suspended and it is 1795.  History was twisted to conceal. A convienant way to disregard what had gone on under previous writers. Vickie is surprised Josette resembles Maggie. She seemed to be expecting Josette to resemble herself.

The voiceover tells us that time has stood still and that Vickie is trapped in the past even if she is unaware of what is going on the audience has been informed.  That the year is 1795 is staed again. I wonder what the original audience thought of what was going on? Were they confused as Vickie is? 
I liked Vickie meeting Jeremiah at Collinwood, but all the time wanted it to be the real Burke  Vickie does realize that she has nowhere to go and knows nobody in a time when a single woman had few options.  The only thing familiar is a way is Collinwood.