I think even without the time jump, they still would've fucked up. At least now we have all this unknown time to play with. Their treatment of Alex was shit. But, then, their treatment of a lot of the characters was too.

I do know exactly what you picked up on ;)

Anyways, thank you so, so much! You and everyone else knows I've been a nervous wreck with this (because i won't shut up about it, mostly) so this one comment right here pretty much made my day. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far!