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<blockquote data-quote="Grant Jennings" data-source="post: 136402" data-attributes="member: 746">I can think of two explanations for all the contradictions:1) I don&#039;t think we should necessarily assume each season corresponds to a calendar year; some seasons may depict events which took place over more than one year. Season one may have depicted events which occurred earlier than 1981. Perhaps there is some time-compression going on in the interest of forwarding the plot; this would explain Krystina aging rapidly and Dex saying he and Alexis had been together for eight years.2) It would be an understatement to say that Alexis is unreliable; I take everything she says with a Lot&#039;s wife sized pinch of salt. &quot;Blake crippled Roger&quot;: Roger was in a wheelchair (as all patients are) when he was released from the hospital. Blake threatened to disfigure her: could be a bold-faced lie or Blake could have said it with no intention following through. Roger died before she returned to Denver: perhaps Jake Dunham&#039;s office told her Grimes had been missing for several years and presumed dead which she took to mean really most sincerely dead. Grimes wife may have had him declared dead for insurance and inheritance reasons.I really don&#039;t have a problem with the discrepancies in the Grimes story as several people are telling us information (Rashomon style) leaving the viewer (and John Zorelli) to figure it all out.What I do have a problem - a HUGE problem - with is Sean being conveniently by the side of the river when Alexis drives her car off the bridge. That is a coincidence Dickens would have scoffed at.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grant Jennings, post: 136402, member: 746"] I can think of two explanations for all the contradictions: 1) I don't think we should necessarily assume each season corresponds to a calendar year; some seasons may depict events which took place over more than one year. Season one may have depicted events which occurred earlier than 1981. Perhaps there is some time-compression going on in the interest of forwarding the plot; this would explain Krystina aging rapidly and Dex saying he and Alexis had been together for eight years. 2) It would be an understatement to say that Alexis is unreliable; I take everything she says with a Lot's wife sized pinch of salt. "Blake crippled Roger": Roger was in a wheelchair (as all patients are) when he was released from the hospital. Blake threatened to disfigure her: could be a bold-faced lie or Blake could have said it with no intention following through. Roger died before she returned to Denver: perhaps Jake Dunham's office told her Grimes had been missing for several years and [I]presumed dead[/I] which she took to mean [I]really most sincerely dead. [/I]Grimes wife may have had him declared dead for insurance and inheritance reasons. I really don't have a problem with the discrepancies in the Grimes story as several people are telling us information (Rashomon style) leaving the viewer (and John Zorelli) to figure it all out. What I do have a problem - a HUGE problem - with is Sean being conveniently by the side of the river when Alexis drives her car off the bridge. That is a coincidence Dickens would have scoffed at. [/QUOTE]

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