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« on: August 28, 2006, 09:18:22 AM »
The problems have been laid out very well here, except for the most glaring one... Barnabas refusing to get back into his box not once, but twice, when returning to the 'present'. So his body was never there for Willie to set free. So he never went back into the past, etc., etc..
The show was pretty naive about time travel. These weren't science-fiction writers.
Angelique dead in 1841. Oops.
Roxanne could have recognized Barnabas without saying so. Anyway, it's not that some people "originally" caused events in the distant past, but in their own "future".... it's that it's all so inconsistent. Either you see the effects of your future actions upon the past (in the present) before you go back and make them, or you don't. If Roxanne [spoiler]was a vampire in 1970 the "first time around",[/spoiler] then Quentin should have already been saved and never a ghost.
some of us have talked before about possible third or fourth timelines (but "before" trhe ones we see), which we don't see because they of course never happened, and aren't remembered.
I like the idea of BC etc getting back to 1971, and having two sets of memories, for both timelines.
Petofi thinking he could travel to 1969 as Quentin might be the most boneheaded time-travel idea. How's Quentin's body going to be there in 1969 without Q having physically lived through all those intervening years? A short cut with the I Ching will just end up with Petofi as Quentin just sending his astral self there, since the bizarre hijacking is preventing Q from ever getting to 1969. He needs to inhabit the 100 year old Q not the young one.