Carnivale fic question! (aka qu'est-ce que le fuck?)

[kangeiko]

I am stuck in the middle of nowhere. Thankfully, wireless internet was eventually located, and thus I am not going crazy. Buckinghamshire is covered in frost, and there is plenty of tea and apples.

I have questions relating to S2 of Carnivale, given that I am writing an Alias/Carnivale fic for bluerosefairy. My questions is S2-spoilery and is based on the Carnivale wikipedia entry as the source of all knowledge (tm):

Wikipedia tells us that Alexei (aka Brother Justin) is Sofie's father, to which I respond with a big fat - HUH?! What the hell are the timelines in this thing? The Dustbowl/Depression events chronicles in both storylines did not take place over such a long period of time as to allow it to happen. Or did Justin travel back in time? Or what? How the bloody hell could he end up across the continental US raping Apollonia when she's dead by the beginning of S1??

Please for to help me with this, as it is driving me slightly batty.

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

That was one of the many sucky things about s2. Justin - the same guy who starts 1 flogging himself for having thoughts about his sister - is retconned into having raped Apollonia as a young man. To add injury to insult, not just Iris but Norman is retconned to having known this. Norman, who starts s1 in delight and joy of his foster children and whom Justin begs for death in the s1 finale, that's right.

I summed up the whole sorry tale in verse here:

http://selenak.livejournal.com/148163.html

[kangeiko]

*stares in disbelief* oh my god.

I don't suppose that anyone will mind if I just erase all knowledge of S2 from my memory and just go on my s1 understanding of them? In that they are not, you know, CRAZY in s1?

(although your verse rendition? brilliant.

[twinb80.livejournal.com]

*pokes her head into the conversation for a moment*

All I can say is bravo, simply bravo. That was awesome. Tis true. :)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thanks. *g*