I'm not sure if this was posted before, sorry if it has been. I was watching DVD set 12 last week and noticed they changed the ending to the 1795 storyline. Natalie duPres knew Barnabas wasn't dead when Victoria was hanged the first time. She knew Angelique was the witch because Joshua told her and needed her help to try to get the curse off of Barnabas. But the second time around she apparently forgot all about that and wanted to kill him.
That always bothered me too. I think I mentioned it in one of the Robservations threads a while back.
Is there anything else they changed?
You betcha! The entire backstory of Josette, Jeremiah, and Barnabas was changed. Just a couple of weeks before the 1795 story began, Barnabas himself was telling Julia how Josette came from France to marry his much older uncle Jeremiah and that she never truly loved him (Barnabas). From the very first episodes of the show, it was stated that the Collins family was descended from Jeremiah Collins, who built Collinwood, and Josette LaFreniere. In addition, Barnabas's backstory was originaly supposed to take place in the mid-1800s (check the dates on the portraits and the family tombstones pre-1795.) We know that by the time the 1795 story rolls around, all of these details have changed.
Also, just prior to the 1840 storyline [spoiler]there is a big build-up about Gerard's connection to a pirate ship called the Java Queen and danger surrounding Carrie and Tad. However, when the characters actually do go back in time, there is no pirate ship and Tad and Carrie are non-entities in the story.[/spoiler]
In 1969, just before the trip back to 1897 [spoiler]Barnabas finds a letter that Quentin wrote to Jamison, asking him to intercede on his behalf with Oswald. The content of the letter suggests that Jamison was much older than the young boy we actually meet in 1897. Who Oswald is or was supposed to be is never addressed either.[/spoiler]
I'm sure there are hundreds of other inconsistencies, but those are the main ones that I can recall.
ProfStokes