I know that 1995 was tied to 1840, however, I wouldn't really conglomerate it with the 1840 rehash! For me 1995 was the highlight of the shows last full year and it quite possibly is my FAVORITE storyline of the entire run, peroid, that is all she wrote, finito!
The thing is, though, the purpose of 1995 was to set up 1840, so while 1995 may have been the most original portion of 1995-1970-1840, it was still part of the reworking of 1897, a more extreme version of 1969 with Q driving everyone out of Collinwood. I like 1995 too, but I also like 1840. Once they committed to spending what feels like a year redoing 1897, they threw in enough satisfying twists to make it worthwhile. I wonder if they had compiled a list of lost opportunities in 1897 that they wanted to make sure they did this time around... mainly having everything more extreme, with more death and destruction.