Apologies if this has been mooted before, but something that occurred to me recently is Victoria Winters Clark. 

She [spoiler]married a man that doesn't exist and then she herself vanished into thin air.[/spoiler] Now I understand that any investigation of her disappearance wouldn't begin 30 odd years later, but when you think about some, someone would have missed her (Mrs. Hopewell, her friends/coworkers at the foundling home, maybe some of the children she was close to).  Also, after a few years of not paying income tax, the IRS would certainly want to know where she was.  The of course there would be the people of Collinsport, the minister who married her and Jeff, blood tests and marriage licenses, people who even just knew her as the Collins boy's governess.

Perhaps a storyline in a new DS could deal with that in some way, perhaps a child at the foundling home remembered her and years later is trying to find out what happened to her.

How would the Barnabas Storyline been resolved though?  The cliffhanger ending ISTR suggests [spoiler]that Vicki has put two and two together and realizes that 1990 Barn is the same man as 1790 Barn.[/spoiler]

LOL - [spoiler]Pop go the boobies![/spoiler]

Fair enough. 

I don't think the "monthly friend" would be a problem.  Surely all women have experience in dealing with emergency situations in that area.

I certainly don't pretend to be an expert in that area, I just wonder what would constitute an emergency situation for a woman from 1990 where resolving such a situation isn't the closest convenience store away?  A friend told me about a reality show she watched that aired on PBS in 2000, called 1900 House, where a modern family live in a house as it was built in 1900 and could not use technology or conveniences available after that year.  For the women in the family, it was particularly ardurous not only with the amount of work by hand that women had to do back then, but also it meant several days a month of wearing cotton pads attached to a belt, that had to be hand washed and reused.  I was imagining it wouldn't have been much different 110 years earlier.

My mind works in mysterious ways and one of the things I was thinking about in this particular episode is all the stuff that we don't see vis a vis a 20th century girl suddenly thrust back in time 200 years.  How often did people typically bathe in those days.  How often did they wash clothes.? What does she do about make up?  I assume a girl of her station probably would not have the money to buy or wear such things, that is to day, if she's not monied and has money to buy make up she's probably a prositute?  How would the other women react to seeing Victoria with shaven armpits and legs?  Having grown up in the 20th century, how will she deal contemporary technology when her monthly friend arrives?

And a word about underwear.  While ladies in undergarments hold no thrill for me whatsoever, I did find that both Victoria and Angeligue both benefited from the adage "Less is more."  The times we see them in their underwear this episode they did both look rather sexy.  It also makes me wonder what the reaction was when Victoria was being helped to change into the dress Angeligue gave her, because the undertarment she would have been wearing would very likely have been a skimpy (by 1790 standards) panties and bra.

Thanks midnite.  I completely overlooked your earlier post.  Apologies.

It's interesting to see my comments in one of those earlier threads.  Almost exactly the same as the ones I made above!

 

I don't know (or don't remember) myself, but speaking for myself, when I first "met" James Hall, he seemed much more in the James Dean Rebel without a Cause model, minus the angst and plus a lot of sociopathy.  His performance was twitchy and genuinely frightening.  I was really creeped out by it.  He was an excellent actor and [spoiler]I totally believed that his Willie (no pun intended) would have raped Carolyn or Vicki if he'd had half a chance and I totally get that Carolyn would feel threatened enough to pull a gun on him.[/spoiler]

I suspect because the character as played by Hall was so unsympathetic, that TPTB felt it he had already taken the role too far in that direction that he couldn't believably be pulled back enough to act as Barnabas' servant.

I, too, would be eager to know a more official reason why he was recast.