DSA dates

[pretender_gurl]

Did anyone else ever wonder why after the second season, there were no longer dates on the DSAs?

I noticed it recently because for fun I decided to record the dates of the stuff that happened in the flashbacks in an effort to get a better handle on the time Jarod spent at the Centre. (I know, I'm really pathetic but if you were stuck in Nebraska, you'd understand). So when I get to season 3, there are no more dates.

Well, I was at this website (www.fanficweb.net/tvs/pretender/) where they continued tP through fanfics for a fifth and sixth season. There is this one part where Miss Parker is looking at the DSA of her kissing Jarod

"Parker pointed to the words at the bottom left corner of the screen. 'Right about the time they got too lazy to keep putting dates on the screen.'"

I just thought that was funny because I had been wondering what happened to the dates. I have two theories on their disappearance.

1.) The writers realized that Jarod was nearing his forties, so they stopped dating the DSAs in an effort to make him seem younger.

I kind of agree with this. Going by the 1963 date of Jarod's procurement and assuming he was four at the time, That would make him 44 years old right now, and 42 when IOTH occurred! Personally, I can't imagine him getting much past 35.

2.) All of the flashbacks were making it rather confusing as far as establishing a timeline for the events that occurred in the past.

Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone else had noticed the disappearance of the DSA dates and why you think that happened.

Emily

[Mynameis]

I also noticed that. They stopped showing us young Jarod and this is one of the reasons that made Tp good.

If you look at those dates again please, check the date when CP faked her sucide or when she spoke to Sydney telling him about her plan (episode inner sense) and also in the episode(cant remember) when she told Raines that she was going to tell Mr. Parker about his experiments on Timmy and he warned her not to tell him or else he would kill her, I think... (I believe this was in season 1 or 2)

the reason I need to know this is because, I found a TP site, where they had written down the TP dates. If they are right, then the writers must have made a mistake . How would CP trust Raines to help her fake her death after what had happened?

[pretender_gurl]

They are right. Angelo is created a year before CP's faked sucide.

However, in Inner Sense, young Jarod asks CP why she trusts Raines and she says that she trusts him because he trusted her -- whatever that means.

Emily

[Danielle]

i dont think i ever noticed that but like i said i use to love the pretender like 3 yrs ago its only recently that i started rewatching it so i might have noticed it then but i dont think i did i dont remember
good observation

[Mynameis]

Mynameis said:

I also noticed that. They stopped showing us young Jarod and this is one of the reasons that made Tp good.

If you look at those dates again please, check the date when CP faked her sucide or when she spoke to Sydney telling him about her plan (episode inner sense) and also in the episode(cant remember) when she told Raines that she was going to tell Mr. Parker about his experiments on Timmy and he warned her not to tell him or else he would kill her, I think... (I believe this was in season 1 or 2)

the reason I need to know this is because, I found a TP site, where they had written down the TP dates. If they are right, then the writers must have made a mistake . How would CP trust Raines to help her fake her death after what had happened?

Here is a site with DSA dates www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/2083/centre.html

On 4-13-70 Catherine Parker finds Timmy whenRaines has justed fried his brains ;D
Again this same date is dated as the day Catherine Parker faked her sucide. What made her trust Raines I think that it would have taken her at least a 1 or 2 days to plan her sucide