Goodbye (almost) to Magda?

[Cassandra]

I have always found it ironic that Barney and Josette, the star crossed lovers, his ideal woman, blah, blah, blah---had ZERO chemistry together. Those two were as dull as dishwater.

So true!!!

[Julia99]

That Magda - I'm gonna miss her something fierce.   

Barn & Julia:  I remember reading somewhere that the writers had been planning on heading in a romantic direction with them or something.

S P O I L E R
That great scene in 1995 with the two of them.

Barnabas: "Not without you....never without you."

Ah...

I think you see hints that this is where they were going in the last year of the series. .the scene you mentioned; their interplay in 1840--where he vowed to destroy Angelique for harming Julia, her almost declaration of love; his whining that he was "lost without her". . .him making some peace with Angie, small steps to where Hall later said they'd storyboarded to. . .normally i don't think they thought that far in advance but apparently She-Hall and Frid spoke to the producers about this. . .and how they 'played their characters' as a couple. .errant though B was. . .??