even after three viewings i'm still confused about david's status as laura's son.
is the woman who gave birth to david the same person who comes back to collinsport to claim him in 1966 or was that the woman who's dead body was found in laura's apartment in pheonix,az.?
it's suggested that they're actually different people.that the laura who lived in collinsport,had a relationship with burke and ended up marrying roger isn't actually the laura who shows up for david during this storyline.dr. guthrie especially feels this way.
i'm also somewhat confused about roger and laura's chronology in collinsport/at collinwood...
when the series begins it's made quite clear that roger and david had only very recently returned to collinwood after living away since david's birth nine years earlier.that at the time of burke's manslaughter trial roger and laura abruptly married and moved away from collinsport.by this logic they had only been back at collinwood about seven/eight months when the storyline began.
during one of laura's periodic inquisitions by the police it's established that she,roger and david had a house in augusta,maine(and a dog named dog!).
however at other times during the storyline(and much more often later in the series)it's implied or outright stated that david had grown up at collinwood and roger had been around forever.
did laura ever live at collinwood before?roger asks her if she had "unpleasant memories" of it and since during this period(and for eightteen years prior)liz never left the place how could she and laura have established such a hostile relationship unless she had been around?
i know one is not supposed to ask such specific questions of this thing but this timeline always baffled me.