Re: saying hello and why I'm not posting

remysun2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On May 4, 12:11 am, "Steven L." <sdlit...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>> Did they give the same assurances regarding the present and the past?
>> They can't.  Desmond has been traveling into the past and changing it.
>> He killed a mouse.  :-)
>>
>> (If Desmond couldn't change the past, then the audience wouldn't care
>> about his time-traveling trips if they can't affect anything.)
>>
>> Eloise The Time-Traveling Mouse died before she could learn the maze
she
>> was supposed to have learned in the future.  That's because Faraday
>> became preoccupied with Desmond and didn't teach her.
> 
> That's not changing the past as much as the theme of Fate and course
> correction.

Sigh.
I don't want to have that debate again.
You can surf the Google archive of this NG or The Fuselage.

The point is that the past *was* changed.

Had Desmond died in the past in one of his time-travel trips due to the 
time-travel sickness, the present and future would have been changed 
severely.  We had to believe that was possible, or else the entire 
suspense of the episode would have been ruined.

That's the difference between the past and the future.  For Desmond's 
time travel trips to be dramatic, they have to have the potential to 
alter the past.  (Even if those alterations smooth out in a 
course-correction manner.)  Whereas for the flashforwards to be 
dramatic, we have to believe the future is fixed.

That's the rather arbitrary rule that the producers have imposed.


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Steven L.
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