What always killed me was, shortly after Barnabas was resurrected by Willie and appeared at Collinwood as their English "cousin," there was a scene with him, Carolyn and Vicki. A storm was raging, and the power was out at Collinwood. The girls were alone. Barnabas scared the bejeebers out of them by appearing at the drawing room doors. Of course, they were relieved to see it was just Barnabas when he walked in. He then proceeded to tell them the "story" of Josette Collins -- how she had come to Collinsport from Martinique as the bride of Jerimiah (that's the way they spelled it -- don't ask me why). However, as the years passed, she realized she was married to an "old man," while she was still a young, vital woman. She took a younger lover, whom we are to presume was Barnabas. At some point, she couldn't deal with her life, and, pursued by her lover, ran to Widow's Hill and leapt to her death.
It was wonderfully told by Frid, with that amazing voice of his, and the scene was quite Gothic, black and white, storm raging -- I loved it! Of course, shortly thereafter, the story changed, which drove me crazy! While I then came to love the 1795 story, I always remembered the earlier version.
I'm sure the writers were up against it when they had to turn Barnabas from the evil vampire to be destroyed into the hero. Thus, there were a lot of inconsistencies. And, let's not forget, writers changed almost daily. There was a pool of writers who were rotated. So, it had to be a challenge if one writer wrote a script for one day and another had to write the script for the following day. You could even see that in the openers for the show. They weren't always the same -- similar enough -- but not exactly the same.
