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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 381554" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>Just as the actors who played modern-day characters had to be carried into the 1795 arc, they similarly had to bring some of 1795 back to the modern time plotlines to maintain a semblance of continuity.  It wasn't so much contractual as it was the producers wanting to hold the attention of the fans who might stop watching when they change the time period.  If they had not done this, the change would likely have been too jarring for new viewers.  Luckily they had the option to have the actors play new characters or simply continue the role they played in the past since the viewers had more or less accepted the "actors playing an ancestor of their regular character" situations.</p></blockquote><p></p>