u/bum_ditch

From the beginning Alice and Kat’s respective story arcs have mostly been separate decades slowly creeping towards together: (1800s-1920s = Kat and 1970s-2000s = Alice).

The 1940/50s are the only era we don’t really see anything converging on, so it seems like the writers were gearing towards season 5 being where their arcs converge into something that would tie the whole series in a nice bow.

Yes, there are some decades we don’t explicitly see, but we do have idea of what happened in them e.g.

- >!1840s to 1910s we know Tessa is there as a surrogate member of the Landry family and get tidbits of how Thomas and Susanna’s spent the rest of their lives!<

- >!1930s we’d likely see Fern navigating single motherhood!<

Up to this point, Kat and Alice’s story arcs kind of complemented each other (like one of them finding out something in their era which helped the other one figure out a mystery in the era they were travelling to).

I feel like >!when they jumped into the pond together at the end of the finale episode!< it’s kind of implied that the next journey would’ve been a story arc they finally shared together and it makes sense for all of that to converge in the 40/50s.

My loose theory is that it’s most likely something to do with Tessa and connecting her whole storyline with what KC was going through in their era.

Are there any 1940/50s mentions that I’ve completely missed, or do you think the writers have intentionally avoiding mentioning anything about these decades so they could build up to a big final mystery?