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« on: December 09, 2014, 03:04:35 PM »
I always liked the idea of BarnaJulliot having two conflicting, overlapping sets of memories when they get back, of the events we've seen, and of the new, changed timeline, in which they never went back to the past, because they didn't have to ("now"). Eventually, the new, changed set of memories settles in and becomes dominant. And they all remember arranging to go to the event Liz was dragging them off to see, how they'd wanted to go (or not) etc..
As for Edith, the family line takes repeated shakings-up over the generations. Members of other lines of the family step in and take over. I guess we know 1897 Edith married into the family (not a Collins), but married to whom? If there were two Ediths, they would have been about the same age, but do they have to be the same person?
It's not really continuity that we're trying to preserve. Barnabas has gone out of his way to demolish continuity. We're rooting for him to do that. What we really want is not to have to say in our heads that certain treasured storylines are so utterly changed that they "didn't happen". We'll take a few changes, but nothing so major as to wipe the slate clean. We want Edith to survive to become that matriarch.