Bits of what you've written are actually what was planned for when the show returned to 1971 after 1841PT.
Really? That whole Barn and Julia bit and going to Asia? That was part of it? I read a whole bit by one of the writers and I thought that was just his opinion of where the show
should have gone, not necessarily DC's plan for where it
would go. But speaking of PT, I must admit, while I did like some bits of it, how weird is it that a show you've been watching for years suddenly goes, "meanwhile, in parallel time, this is happening..." You'd go, "Excuse me?" I mean, I know we'd seen parallel time before, but at least the first time there was somebody from our time band there. I remember watching the show the first time--anxiously waiting for them to get back to "our" characters and see what was happening, and they ENDED it in PARALLEL TIME!!!! I felt so...betrayed. Sort of like when Star Trek worked for YEARS setting up this whole universe, and then suddenly, it was "meanwhile, back several hundred years ago, this happened." When DS ended, I was like, "That's it! I'm gonna have to have a little TALK with somebody..."
Judy
P.S. Barn & Julia? Really?
Too scary. I'd have to watch the show like you watch monster movies--through your fingers. Or better still, behind the couch.