User blog comment:MissMayfair/If you could change something, anything in any of the series, what would it be?/@comment-1104107-20120730043713

If they dont do the time jump, Gabrielle adapts her children, that way we still get to have the kids.

Edie never dies of course, Katherine leaves at the end of season 5, because they cant fit seven housewives and angie into season 6. Edie gets invovled in the paul/felcia storyline, and finally learns who killed her friend Martha. Season 8 she marries Ben. I'd say Susan and Edie finally get alot more closer.