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« on: June 21, 2012, 03:46:03 PM »
Well, conceivably they could have started fresh and created new storylines in whatever era they were in. I think they regretted ever leaving the atmosphere (and ratings) of the past, not the events of the 1897 plot specifically.
I should add here, for purposes of complete disclosure, that on first run, I was drifting from DS in 1970 (including 1840). I do remember Collinwood being destroyed. I'd check in on it occasionally to test the waters, and then of course I was more and more confused each time I did that. Eventually, with 1841PT, it seemed as if they'd lost their minds. Was it the past? None of these events or characters belonged... Julia Collins? Uh... what? It didn't help that they stopped telling us in the VO that it was in PT. They were in the romantic, ratings-generating (they hoped) past, that's all that some of the makers and viewers cared about I guess.
Leticia Pansy was unforgiveable, but I'm going to guess that an irrational demand was made by DC or someone to get very popular character Charity Pansy back in there, no matter how crazy it was. They un-Pansy-Fayed the character as soon as Dan's attention was distracted by something else, I'll guess....