I for one am thrilled that Angelique has returned. She's an evil little w(b)itch, but damned if she doesn't make things interesting.
Oh, me too. Quentin's description of her as "our beautiful black-hearted child of the angels" was great. .....
Quentin and Angelique seem to be cut from the same cloth-- both had "larger expectations" than what they were given in life, and they're beautiful and clever and learned to take what they wanted by whatever force necessary.
Loved that description too, as well as Quentin's description of himself as "a man with larger expectations than life has heretofore offered me" (hope I didn't mess up the quote - I can't reverse on the dvd player I'm using right now). Both phrases just have SUCH a Victorian feel to them.
As to Quentin and Angelique -- definitely two very similar people. They would make a good match in some timeline or another. I think he's way better suited to her than Barnabas -- Quentin LIKES independent, intelligent, strong minded women, whereas I don't think Barnabas is comfortable around any but naieve ingenues. I know there's a few Blake's 7 fans on here, and I've probably made this analogy before, but those two matched up would be a less toxic version of the Avon/ Servalan love hate relationship.
If Angelique's reason for going after Rachel was that she was a Josette look-a-like, I don't think there would have been any need for the scene in which Angie witnessed Rachel receiving the music box from Barnabas. So I blame Barnabas, who seems to keep forgetting why he's in 1897 and apparently can't stop himself from indiscriminately changing future events. And by giving the music box away, how does he even know it will get back to where it's supposed to be in 1967? <sigh>
Someone needs to teach Barnabas about a little thing called the Prime Directive......