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There is a MASSIVE problem with the 1840/41 storyline. Julia traveled to 1840 using the "magical staircase". Barnabas, however, used the I Ching later and, as in 1897, his astro-self occupied his body in the coffin, while his physical body remained in the present (1970-71). It never was drawn to the past as what happened to him in 1897. Now, at the end of that storyline, Barnabas, Julia and Stokes (who also had used the staircase) took those wonderful stairs back to the present. So herein lies the problem: Barnabas sends his astral self back to 1840 to occupy his body in the coffin, and then used THAT body to return to 1971. So what happened to the body he left in the basement of the Old House, sitting in a trance, in 1970? It's still there.
Of course, that was just one major problem with the 1840/41 storyline resolution. The other one is that they changed the lineage of family descendents, from Gabriel to Quentin I. When Barnabas, Julia and Eliot returned to 1971, they should've found an entirely different family occupying Collinwood. Of course, that would've made for a great storyline (seeing how the three muskateers try to correct that mistake to get the original folks back), all the actors/actresses playing different characters, but as we all know, the show was canceled after the 1841PT plot.
Gerard
