To put it in story context, this is not suppose to be a PT version of anything. It is suppose to be how history unfolded for the Collins family of the past. When Victoria went into the past, replacing Phyllis Wick, she was living out life as it had happened to Phyllis originally. The writers took some licenses with Victoria's knowledge of the past and attempts to prevent the tragedies that hit the Collins family in 1795, but ulitmately history unfolded as it had originally. When she went back the second time, all rational explantions for how she could have logically fit into that time are gone and it leaves us with a version of the story that doesn't make alot of sense and lacks continuity with the rest of the story as it had been presented up to that point.
Raholt
That's not exactly true. Victoria did, in fact, create a parallel timeline by switching places with Phyllis Wick. She was not a part of the original timeline between 1795-1796 - otherwise Barnabas would have recognized her when he first met her as Sarah's governess who was hanged as a witch, and who had told him that she came from the future. Barnabas only remembers events of that time period with Phyllis Wick, both before and after Vicki travels back there.
I use the word "bubble" because it appears that Victoria was unable to alter the course of history and upon her departure from 1796, history follows the same exact path as it did when Phyllis Wick was there, thus the future remains intact.
It is therefore the Angelique and Peter Bradford of this parallel time bubble who travel to the year 1967 in search of Victoria. The Angelique and Peter of the original timeline had no knowledge of Victoria Winters.
When the ghost of Peter Bradford from this parallel time bubble draws Victoria back into it, she may have in fact had to relive the entire experience all over again. This time around, she may have been able to change just a few things, which would explain the differences between her first adventure there and her second. The second time around, Millicent may not have gone insane, and the Countess may not have discovered Barnabas' secret the way she did the first time.
