suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>>suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>>>>David Barnett <dbar3...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>a...@chinet.com says...
>>>>>>>>>>jazzyJack <jazzyjackki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>I finally had a chance to catch up with last week's post-Etta
>>>>>>>>>>>episode.  The Observers' Borg-like nature could have been inserted
>>>>>>>>>>>into the show's continuity in any season. But I feel that saving
>>>>>>>>>>>the reveal for the last few episodes was nicely timed.
>>>>>>>>>>>And having Peter desperately experiment on himself
>>>>>>>>>>>was entirely consistent with the behaviors Walter
>>>>>>>>>>>has often displayed. The experiment has to go wrong,
>>>>>>>>>>>but I hope it won't be in the now-cliched manner of
>>>>>>>>>>>Peter-loses-his-humanity-and-becomes-what-he-started-out-fightin g.
>>>>>>>>>>>Peter becoming the "first Observer" would also be a tired
>>>>>>>>>>>development.
>>>>>>>>>>>Still, the emotional core of the story remains strong.
>>>>>>>>>>Yeah, that was very Walter-like. I would predict that he becomes
>>>>>>>>>>the first Observer.
>>>>>>>>>I never thought of that either.
>>>>>>>>See, if Peter becomes Walter, he's got to break things. The mere act of
>>>>>>>>not inserting future tech into his brain would have made the Observers
>>>>>>>>vanish.
>>>>>>>>This, of course, cannot be reconciled with how Peter was the key point
>>>>>>>>of the story based on Walter kidnapping him from the alternate universe
>>>>>>>>out of grief for the death of his own son.
>>>>>>>Peter's important to the whole thing. By saving him as a boy,
>>>>>>>it threw a monkey wrench in the Observers plans to take over
>>>>>>>earth. That's why they've been trying to get rid of him - he's
>>>>>>>the key to their demise.
>>>>>>Well, yeah, but that happened to be due to the Machine that just happened
>>>>>>to be created to work with his body and no one else's, still yet to
>>>>>>be explained in a way that doesn't give me a headache.
>>>>>We've gone beyond that; The Machine was for saving the two universes
>>>>>anyway, not destroying the Observers.
>>>>You don't see Peter's created a paradox?
>>>>I haven't seen "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There",
>>>>so these comments apply to the previous episode. I'd ask anyone commenting
>>>>on the later episode to start an unrelated thread.
>>>I wasn't commenting about any particular episode really. Peter's created
>>>a paradox where? Last season or this one? Last season he disappeared
>>>from both universes and didn't exist, so he couldn't have met himself
>>>anywhere when he came back from between them or wherever he was. This
>>>year, hard to say yet.
>>What do you think learning to use and then to recreate future tech is?
>>That makes Peter the creator of the technology that gives The Observers
>>their magical powers, tech he couldn't have created if he hadn't taken
>>it from a corpse.
>That's a paradox?