1795 Discrepancy

[Roland]

I was thinking that if all the people whom Vickie meets back in 1795 resemble people she knows in 1967, why doesn't Barnabas notice those strange similarities when he wakes up in the future?  I mean, wouldn't it freak him out that Elizabeth and Roger looked so much like his mother and father, or that Dr. Hoffman was a dead ringer for the Countess Du Pres?

[Gerard]

Old age memory loss?  He was, after all, almost 200-years-old.  I'm only a quarter of that and I can't remember where I left the salt and pepper shakers half the time.

Gerard

[Nelson Collins]

I was thinking that if all the people whom Vickie meets back in 1795 resemble people she knows in 1967, why doesn't Barnabas notice those strange similarities when he wakes up in the future?  I mean, wouldn't it freak him out that Elizabeth and Roger looked so much like his mother and father, or that Dr. Hoffman was a dead ringer for the Countess Du Pres?

He might have noticed but was suave enough to not let on.  Had he been going on about that out loud, he would have been thought mad as a hatter (cf: Vicky in 1795)

[Joeytrom]

Can you picture Barnabas first arriving at Collinwood and exclaiming "Aunt Abigail! Why are you wearing such a revealing dress!?  Is this your way of haunting Collinwood"?

[MagnusTrask]

Well, Barnabas certainly noticed Maggie and Josette's resemblance.... and dressed relatives up in their 1795 counterparts for the party.   He was being very calculating when meeting the family, and would have been careful to keep quiet about anything which led to things he couldn't explain.    "You look just like... well, someone I knew in 1795--- I mean, 1995-- what year is this again??!!!!"   BC isn't about to screw up like that.

I usually think though that the eery resemblances were supposed to be some magical phenomenon peculiar to Vicki.    Everyone may have looked identical only to her.