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« on: May 09, 2013, 10:35:17 PM »
There are quite a few things that I genuinely liked about this incarnation. I loved Joanna Going and thought that she made an ideal heroine. I also loved Barbara Blackburn, who manages to inject some much needed wit into the proceedings.
I could have done without the Pepe LePew French accents. I had no problems with Jim Fyfe's acting but I didn't care for how the character of Willie was presented. And the show never made proper use of either Adrian Paul or Michael T. Weiss.
The major problem, for me, is that Barnabas is largely depicted as a cold fish. We see that he's quite taken with Vicki but his relationships to Julia and the Collins family are somewhat vague.
I was never able to take the character seriously after a friend pointed out that when Cross went into vampire mode, he bore an uncanny resemblance to Ed O'Neill on Married With Children.