Barnabas in 1897

OMG! Lydia! I think I just died. 

Good point. Perhaps it was Barnabas' offer of help that started changing Quentin's personality and outlook. I mean, by the time September 10th rolls around he's been put through so much more via Petofi and the family falling apart than he may have originally been. Perhaps in the "original" he was just as cold and conniving as we saw at the beginning of 1897 before things were really changed. It's certainly more in keeping with the way his ghost acted.

Or perhaps in the original timeline something even nastier happened to him to create the cold vindictive sociopathic ghost of 1969.....

Jeannie

They could have brought David Selby back in 1969 with a blond plastic wig and named him Cassander.

 
You do NOT want to know about the mental image I just got from this post.....    Be afraid, be very afraid.....
 

The craziest statements he makes has to be when he accuses Angelique of changing history when she announces that she plans to marry Quentin and she accusaes him of the same.  His response was hilarious: "I have done all i can do to make sure to keep histpry the way it was" or something to that effect.

and then we have the episode where Barnabas learns about the Prime Directive.....

Jeannie

Well the 1897 is my favorite storyline. Barnabas going back to save David, but I also like Barnabas and Quentin being allies to fight Petofi. But I did'nt like the end of it where Barnabas encounters Josette again in 1795. That was getting old.

I felt differently, Doug.  If only Kathryn Leigh Scott hadn't left the show (and if the show hadn't been canceled) we could have had many different revisitings to 1795, and Josette could have
[spoiler]been saved from poisoning herself and gone on to kill herself in several different ways.[/spoiler]