Oh gosh, would somebody please send Alexandra Moltke off on vacation? By now Vicky should be expecting to see familiar faces in every nook and cranny. I daresay she's seen lookalikes around and about for Willie Loomis, Jason McGuire, Bill Malloy, Susie from the coffeeshop, and Aunt Katherine from Boston, and yet she still feels obliged to throw a fit when she sees Matthew Morgan's doppelganger. When she was talking to Angelique, I was wondering: does it bother Vicky that Angelique has no counterpart in the future? Then I remembered Riggs, and decided that it was halfway understandable that Vicky's thumbs didn't prick when she saw a completely unknown face. It was slightly weird for me, though, hearing Lara Parker doing the voiceover - it was no longer as though a friend from 1967 was taking us by the hand and guiding us into 1795. Perhaps that's a little bit of how Vicky-enthusiasts felt when Nancy Barrett did that first non-Alexandra-Moltke voiceover.
Looking at how Angelique worked her wiles with Ben Stokes even before she had any idea of enslaving him, I have absolutely no doubt that she made the first move with Barnabas. How did she manage to call Ben to her out of the blue later on, by the way? It doesn't seem like the sort of the sort of thing she'd be able to do at that point. Even in a later storyline, when she was more powerful (I think), when she wanted to call somebody to become her slave, she used his cigarette lighter to make the connection.
Does deadly nightshade grow in trees? I always imagine it to be a ground plant, and yet there Angelique was, reaching up to pick it.
