Do plot bunnies live in plot holes?
Nov. 18th, 2007 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaFinished watching the first season of Eureka at TV Night, and I admit I'm confused about something.
Soo . . . let me get this straight . . . Henry was so deeply in love with Kim that he was willing to risk the entire space-time continuum for her - but two episodes prior to that, he was ready to leave Eureka, and her, behind him permanently? I don't get it.
I can construct a sequence of events that would have him realize, say, two years down the road how much he missed her, and then have him activate Walter's device from there, but Henry seems like a pragmatic individual - surely, if he was about to leave her anyway, he could deal with her death without, you know, unravelling the fabric of causality. This also leaves us with the problem that now we have two people in town - Henry and Jack - who both have memories of futures that haven't happened yet, futures that are incompatible with each other. That means we have at least one paradox, and probably two, as in trying to anticipate their own futures, they're going to end up constructing a third future that won't match either of theirs.
I'm sure Fargo or Stark can handwave that with some parallel-universe pseudoscience babble, but I'm still confused about the character inconsistency, unless the Henry who came back is from the future that he caused, which would be a particularly complicated version of the Sculptor's Paradox. And that isn't, ultimately, any better when the statue never gets made.
Gah. Time Travel sucks. I'm making a cross-fandom house call to the Doctor to come fix this. (If any of this gets resolved in Season Two, don't tell me.)
Soo . . . let me get this straight . . . Henry was so deeply in love with Kim that he was willing to risk the entire space-time continuum for her - but two episodes prior to that, he was ready to leave Eureka, and her, behind him permanently? I don't get it.
I can construct a sequence of events that would have him realize, say, two years down the road how much he missed her, and then have him activate Walter's device from there, but Henry seems like a pragmatic individual - surely, if he was about to leave her anyway, he could deal with her death without, you know, unravelling the fabric of causality. This also leaves us with the problem that now we have two people in town - Henry and Jack - who both have memories of futures that haven't happened yet, futures that are incompatible with each other. That means we have at least one paradox, and probably two, as in trying to anticipate their own futures, they're going to end up constructing a third future that won't match either of theirs.
I'm sure Fargo or Stark can handwave that with some parallel-universe pseudoscience babble, but I'm still confused about the character inconsistency, unless the Henry who came back is from the future that he caused, which would be a particularly complicated version of the Sculptor's Paradox. And that isn't, ultimately, any better when the statue never gets made.
Gah. Time Travel sucks. I'm making a cross-fandom house call to the Doctor to come fix this. (If any of this gets resolved in Season Two, don't tell me.)
