I hope that everyone in the Watching Project, and all our ships out at sea, will join me in wishing Collinsport a very happy new year of 1971. Yes, there have been deaths and general untidiness, and more zombies than a person generally likes to have roaming around without supervision, but at least Barnabas and Julia aren't there, which might serve as some small source of consolation to the survivors, that at least things won't be getting worse anytime soon.
I feel, though, that 1995-Summer 1970-1840-1 are in a Temporal Bubble (patent pending), separate from "real" DS 1971, so probably the 1971 characters are still wondering when B&J will get back from Parallel Time. They may all be very happy indeed, even unsedated.
I just hope that the Beatles get back together sometime soon, and that DS goes on for a great many years to come.
