We had a parallel time opposite and parallel time sameness today. The opposite was a wife wrongly accusing her husband of gaslighting her, whereas in our own time we have a gullible wives with no idea that their husbands are gaslighting them. The sameness was Maggie being kidnapped by a maniac who believes he can brainwash her into loving him. I said it yesterday and I'm saying it again today: I don't see why Yaeger is interested in Maggie, and I don't see why Yaeger isn't interested in Angelique.
Barnabas needs to take lessons from Angelique. Angelique finds sneaky and effective little ways to make Maggie believe ill of Quentin, while Barnabas takes the blunt and ineffective route of telling Maggie straight out that Alexis is no good.
Quentin pulled out the suspicion today that Maggie was a witch. We haven't heard it in a while, and if he were reasonable he would have been rethinking it in light of the costume ball fiasco and he certainly wouldn't have told Barnabas - his wife's confidante! - of his suspicion, but he's not reasonable. Barnabas isn't reasonable either. He guessed that the so-called Alexis was bad purely because she looked like his own Angelique. And just because he was right about that, it doesn't mean that Maggie is any good purely because she looks like Maggie Evans. More likely - to someone who is outside looking in - Maggie is every bit as mean and manipulative as Angelique is, because guys tend to fall for the same type of woman over and over again. (And of course, women fall for the same type of guy.)
