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- harlequino0
I've noticed there's an interesting adherence to a theme of fate and destiny. It's been said a few times that you cannot change the past, what has happened, happened. If you interfere things will find a way of reverting back to a preexisting timeline. Remember this happened with Desmond trying to save Charlie. He was going to die anyway. However, it seems that you can make "waves" in time, affect some small things. That's what allowed Daniel to get Desmond out of the hatch a couple years before the lane crash to tell him to go to Oxford.
However, it seems that fate i still fate.I wonder if this conveniently lines up with the "fourth dimensional" outlook of time, from a physics perspective. If you look at time, as it appeared in "Slaughter House 5," for instance, in that time is simply the fourth perceivable dimension. Length, Width, Depth, Duration. To a fourth dimensional organism, time is always there, it's part of their world, everything always exists at the same "time." All things and people might look like giant snakes in a fourth dimensional world, since every instance of an object appears at once. To eliminate or change part of the "snake" is probably disastrous.
- You do realise that this is a TV show right, and not Real Life. How the fuck do you find all this in formation in a TV series is beyond me.********
- Dunno. Just good writing and I like stuff that gets the noggin moving. As opposed to...just about everyting else.harlequino
- Besides, the show is FILLED with references to other books, movies, etc. It's part of the story.harlequino
- Good writing does have this kind of stuff in it.juhls
- You do realise that this is a TV show right, and not Real Life. How the fuck do you find all this in formation in a TV series is beyond me.