Bingowings said:
It might have worked if once Alex had found the truth about her fellow restless souls she discovered they weren't really all English and from the Eighties but the realm translated them that way because she and Sam came from a UK background of a certain time.
They were all from different times. Shaz's death scene looked very nineties, the uniform was much more modern. Judging by the uniforms in Chris', it looked more 60's or 70's maybe. Ray's didn't have a uniform to go by, but his death scene looked a lot earlier than the 80's. And it was established that Gene died on the day Elizabeth II was coronated, which was in 1952.