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« on: March 16, 2008, 03:51:21 AM »
But they were about to begin an 1841PT vampire story first, in fact they did just barely begin it in the last episode... does anyone know any details on that?
Didn't Gabriel's and Edith's children survive?
Yes, it's a problem, the fact that Liz knows them all in 1971... BC and JH at least should not ever have arrived at Collinwood in the first place in 1967. Once you get past that though, it's not a problem that Liz acts as if they never left. This part actually makes sense. They'd created a new timeline where there was no Gerard haunting, and that new timeline included themselves. They never had to go back to 1840 in the new timeline, and stayed at Collinwood living their lives. So, Barnabas, Julia, and Elliot did make plans to go this event with Liz, and they were there the day before the return from 1840, and the day before that, etc..
Your guess is as good as mine or theirs as to how the paradox gets straightened out, after this point. My pet theory is that in returning from the past, they begin to reintegrate with their new timeline selves. If they'd all used I Ching it would be so much simpler, but they physically walked back from 1840, so they're not physically re-occupying their present day bodies... and it would seem that there would be two sets of these people walking around in 1971. That doesn't appeal to me.
What I want is for the three of them to begin to have memories of both timelines, of having lived through both of them. They then go on as those people who did make plans to go with Liz to whatever that shindig was. (I've never said "shindig" before.)
Avoiding the physical duplication is the problem for me.