Wait, what? (spoilers)

Time shift and stuff. Don't think too much about it. I really enjoyed it.

I don't understand that either. Found it sooo slow and boring. Could have had so much potential.

What bugs me is Gabriel's mother is not mentioned once. Nathan had to be married and Gabriel had to have had a mommy at one time. Did she die in labor? Or an accident... That was a loose end within the story.

I thought at the end by 'why did you kill your wife?' they meant Gabriel's mother? I hope there is another series, really enjoyed it!

I realise it's a ghost story and you take it as you find it but there has to be a thread of consistency for me to be convincingly absorbed by the story and unfortunately, as interesting and compelling as this story is, season 1. is lacking some good consistent foundation, though I think season 2 should tie up those lose ends.

(Spoilers!)

My assumptions :-

As chronologically out of place as anything could be, I don't think it's the presence of the VW car buried in a field in 1894 that's caused all the problems, as it wouldn't explain how the car got there in the first place. It's more likely the mineral the children were mining, that's the source of all the problems.
It would help explain many of the goings on if the entire foundation of the estate sat on the same mineral bedrock which was disturbed historically during the mining process and as a result caused all sorts of electromagnetic issues and time anomalies.
You'll also note that much of the mineral was laying on the surface of the soil and the farm hands were instructed to collect it up by Harriet, which they hadn't been told to do before, This would explain why the happenings had started up again - to quote the surviving mining boy - (now an old man)

It would be believable that such an intense electromagnetic field across the estate could change visual perception (without the need for magic mushrooms!) and you could stetch your imagination a little more to imagine that these effects would be more likely to effect families that had grown up there and therefore across generations making them possible more sensitive.
You could explain all of these occurrence bar one, the car, this is the only instance in the entire series where a physical touchable object appears to have permanently moved back in time, so maybe we're only seeing the car as an upturned yellow VW from her perspective as she suddenly remembers the accident. Everyone else sees it maybe for what it possibly really is.... an upturned mining wagon.

One clue here is that Gabriel said 'the baby was fine because her husband had come and got him' and we all saw the baby in the booster seat just before the accident, which means the car must have been in the 21st century during and after the accident in order for the baby to be rescued in the 21st century.

There was very little mentioned about his previous wife or how she died, she obviously wasn't given ghost previlages! as her ghostly apparition never appeared through the series. Another inconsistency maybe or perhaps she wasn't dead? The seance at the end proposed that he killed her though you'd be forgiven for assuming they were referring to the moment Harriet held the glass of deadly nightshade to her lips, suggesting he didn't knock the glass out of her hand after all, and they both actually died. Which would imply everything we saw from that moment on including the VW retrieval was as ghosts in some disembodied reality....

We'll just have to wait and see....

What I didn't understand was Gabriel had drawn a picture of the woman from our time while he was alive..so was he seeing her before his death and if so how was that possible.

Also I assume that Gabriel was looking for a new Mommy so he would appear to family members who had just had babies. The grandmother said that the woman's mother had also seen the boy and she took her own life...so why didn't she become Gabriel's new mom. The big question though is where was his real mother and why couldn't he find her in the afterlife ?

Still loved the series and want to watch it again. Hope there is a season 2

In the 1st episode, right before she dies, Victoria Appleby holding a globe (world within a world) looks up, weak (heavy with grief) smile, Gabriel? Woman's voice calling for Nathan, presumably Olivia, but she doesn't recognise who it is. The same globe breaks in the car crash, Gabriel moves on? Harriet possessed by Able North has an interest in the housekeeper, someone with eldritch knowledge. She/he attempts to baptise her, why? In the scene where Charlotte implies one of the farmhands damaged the engine, John with conviction, says nobody here would do that, all present hold there heads up as he says this, looking her in the eye, except the housekeeper. Nathan seems to be a focal point for what's happening, the infamous Nathan Appleby, but theres a dark history. In a scene with Nathan and Harriet they discuss his work in London, there's a suggestion that they dabbled in the occult (he has ouij board) and she became damaged, maybe died under his care or suicide but blames himself? Lara and her mother began to experience disturbances at childbirth, the grandmother doesn't 'admit' to anything, but theres a suggestion that perhaps she knew there was more going on at the time of her daughters problems, perhaps she hoped to escape the troubles? Olivia Appleby dies in the year her son was born, supposing she was disturbed at the time, was this disturbance resulting from dabbling in the occult or something else? The housekeeper is quick to oblige Nathan when he asks for access to her eldritch skills. She encourages Charlotte to leave then decides to stay herself when she won't. Who are/where the housekeeper, Mr Payne and the travelling preacher?

I've read the entire thread which leads me to only one conclusion: The writer was trying to be too clever for his own good.
I loved Life on Mars along with well written ghost and time travel based stories, so was really looking forward to this.
But sadly, this seems firmly aimed at the American market where most things English and historical are lapped up however poorly they're written.
And this, to me, left too many unanswered questions and had too many ludicrous twists that had me almost wincing. I don't like everything neatly tied up with a bow, but this became almost farcical.
It also seems like the final scene was bolted on in order to ensure a second series once it's broadcast on BBC America in October and finds acclaim there.
Just...disappointing.

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