On any issue, I start out cautiously, conservatively in other words, but conmsidering all possibilities I know of, including the most extreme, and what do you know, it's the extreme, radical answers I'm forced to come around to, two out of three times.
Lydia... it'd be great to know Barnabas could have been bitten w/o Angelique, without its being a total unbelievable coincidence that there were two different possible vampirism triggers lying in wait for him at the same time. That's all I can imagine.
I'm on 1968 again now. Every time BC talks about his past with Angelique it seems this is "new" Barnabas talking, with a different history than "old" Barnabas.
I'm stopping myself, since we're all way off topic and I don't care personally, but I don't want to distort Lydia's thread.