Sometimes I think JJ relies too much on time travel and paradoxes and alternate universes to make the story come out any which way he wants. When does it become a deus ex machina?

The Observers invaded in 2015, Peter and Olivia had Henrietta around 2012, so wouldn't you expect Peter to have all his memories of Walter intact up to that point? They only erased the invasion...and oh yeah, as you brought up in your other post, they didn't really erase it so much as branch off another universe in which it never happened...and let's see, in 2016 the gang froze themselves in amber until 2036, and in 2036 Walter goes through the portal to 2112. Right? Right? What? Damn the timelines are so confusing. I tried researching it on the net, and naturally some fan(atics) have tried to plot the timelines, but that didn't help me much--their pictures just seem to capture the confusion.

I'm so confused.