I believe I read before (most likely from this forum), that those lines were originally intended for Barnabas, who could not appear in that particular episode, on account of Jonathan Frid being ill. Can anyone else confirm this?
Sara, you might have read it on a post of mine, in the Watching Project topic for the episode in which it occurred. I was referring to a much earlier topic in which the suggestion was originally made - probably from when people were watching Dark Shadows on the SciFi network, But later in that Watching Project topic I decided that probably the suggestion was incorrect, and the the lines were indeed originally intended for Julia. I can't say for other people, however.
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