You may be aware that with the new Disney+ streaming service, Marvel is planning a show called "What If" which imagines characters from the Marvel movies in different circumstances than we know them. For example, what if Tony Stark were Hulk instead of Iron Man? Or what if Nick Fury had never been present to help develop SHEILD/The Avengers? How would the story change?
I thought it might be fun to consider this for Dark Shadows. What if Angelique hadn't cursed Barnabas, but he became a vampire because he was randomly bitten by a bat? What if Julia and Angelique switched places? What if entire characters, say Carolyn for example, were absent from the series? How would this change things?