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« on: January 23, 2011, 03:24:00 PM »
I like 1840 Ang being of her time too, I just wish it made sense. Someone, maybe Lydia, had an idea about parallel alternate time lines, that this 1840 isn't the past of RT1970, but [spoiler]changing this 1840 seems to change our 1970/1, so this 1840 must be RT1970's past. Then again, we don't see much of RT1971.[/spoiler]
I have a Second Witch theory. Barnabas (consider this whole thread one big spoiler please everybody) throttled Ang in 1795. She was buried. Ang reappears as a ghost, causes more trouble. At some point, her body is found to be missing from her grave. Then 1795 ends with Vicki propelled back to 1967 or 8. A more corporeal Ang with black hair follows on Vicki's heels to 1968.
Presumably they had Ang's body disappear so as to explain, slightly, Cassandra as a physical being. Diabolos revived her, and helped her time travel. That doesn't explain 1840 though...
I say Diabolos (or his master, if he's just the front man) can take ghosts and reconstitute them if he wants, without the original body. If Daphne can come back, the devil can do it too I think. So Diabolos reconstitutes Ang's ghost and flings her toward 1968.
What about the missing body? If Angelique can get shot and reverse the effects, maybe her body can restore itself eventually too. If we think of a spirit arising out of the physical brain and body, a mind possibly being an "emergent property" of the brain/body, as a lot of people believe these days, then this restoration could eventually lead to an Angelique soul gradually reforming, perhaps even with some memories surviving. Judah did something like that, maybe.
I doubt Barnabas or Ben sprung for a very good coffin, in any case, an Angelique powerful enough to regenerate could certainly deal with a coffin lid and/or a few inches of dirt.
So one Angelique digs herself out, leaves town, and only comes back on their anniversaries. Technically there's another Angelique, but not in 1795/6 or for many years after. The second Ang that we know isn't going to exist for years and years (1968). That second Ang comes back to 1796 briefly, gets burned by Ben, then goes back to the future again. Of-her-time Ang meanwhile goes off to Hell, where Diabolos doesn't tell her about her other self, who doesn't exist at that point in time anyway, or Ang lives on the surface all those decades until 1840.