(Edited because I wrote this on a phone so typos and a few rephrases needed)
If you have not watched episode 12 and do not already know what this date is - go watch the ep - even is the topic makes you uncomfortable. Even if its a bit triggering or you don't like the ep or the topic or it feels to much like a PSA - this topic is not for any of that it is about the newest revelations and what we think this means for the charactors and overall story.
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So WOW. Right.
How much in the future did Ian leap from? Is that Ian still leaping, manage to erase themselves, return to an altered future, deliberately find somewhere else in time to hide?
How long had future-Ian been leaping?
Were they swiss-cheesed?
Did future Ian have a hologram also?
Who would that hologram be?
Which facility did future Ian use? The one Janis made, the current one, the old one in New Mexico, some new one Sam made? Lothos headquarters?
Were the seeds that make this possible created in this ep with Ian being given access to the imaging chamber by Addison?
That Ian leaped into Dottie, a person that they would be more comfortable as then most, speaks to there being much more control over who to leap into at the time this leap was made.
Also just how much info did future Ian impart?
It seems Ben didn't reach out to Janis right away and Ian was only Dottie for one week so unless Ian or someone continued to show up in relation to Ben after this a lot of data was given to Ben which was also eventually used to convince Janis.
Janis said she had no choice - why? Was she the future hologram?
It was obviously critical that Ben's project got started 5 years earlier then it otherwise would have - what happens in 5 years and why March 13 2020? Dottie is a reasonable choice for Ian's comfort but why did Dottie work for the job that was needed?
They said the club is not really Ben's scene so people wouldn't look for a meeting there - but why Dottie? - how would they even know Ben would listen in 2020 to this specific person in this specific situation?.
Honestly , it implies that Future Ben or someone gave info to Ian on how to get 2020 Ben to trust and believe what was being said - now granted he was working on a time travel project which would eventually allow this but whatever info Dottie imparted led to Ben believing then contacting Janis and getting her to abandon her life for this and feel she has no choice - and again this already feels like we are in an altered timeline where Janis *was* originally on the project and then was kept off it by something changing.
I also wonder if the reason Ben needs to save Addison actually from her accidental or intentional killing or could it be an attempt to *erase* her somehow?
Was she accidentally killed? Murdered? Was she instead captured and brainwashed by Lothos? Perhaps arrested and thrown in prison on trumped up charges - maybe she is killed while leaping or simply lost I'm time. Needing to save her can mean many things.
We still have quite a few dangling threads from the original series - Sam is the biggest elephant missing from our room - but there are plenty of others.
And ugh where does the other leaper to be, who Ben met, fit in. What about some of the other changes made are they just stepping stones to build temporal momentum or do the specific lives he touch matter also in the master plan?
If you have not watched episode 12 and do not already know what this date is - go watch the ep - even is the topic makes you uncomfortable. Even if its a bit triggering or you don't like the ep or the topic or it feels to much like a PSA - this topic is not for any of that it is about the newest revelations and what we think this means for the charactors and overall story.
SPOILER ALERT
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
A
L
E
R
T
Really I mean it
Spoilers Ahead
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So WOW. Right.
How much in the future did Ian leap from? Is that Ian still leaping, manage to erase themselves, return to an altered future, deliberately find somewhere else in time to hide?
How long had future-Ian been leaping?
Were they swiss-cheesed?
Did future Ian have a hologram also?
Who would that hologram be?
Which facility did future Ian use? The one Janis made, the current one, the old one in New Mexico, some new one Sam made? Lothos headquarters?
Were the seeds that make this possible created in this ep with Ian being given access to the imaging chamber by Addison?
That Ian leaped into Dottie, a person that they would be more comfortable as then most, speaks to there being much more control over who to leap into at the time this leap was made.
Also just how much info did future Ian impart?
It seems Ben didn't reach out to Janis right away and Ian was only Dottie for one week so unless Ian or someone continued to show up in relation to Ben after this a lot of data was given to Ben which was also eventually used to convince Janis.
Janis said she had no choice - why? Was she the future hologram?
It was obviously critical that Ben's project got started 5 years earlier then it otherwise would have - what happens in 5 years and why March 13 2020? Dottie is a reasonable choice for Ian's comfort but why did Dottie work for the job that was needed?
They said the club is not really Ben's scene so people wouldn't look for a meeting there - but why Dottie? - how would they even know Ben would listen in 2020 to this specific person in this specific situation?.
Honestly , it implies that Future Ben or someone gave info to Ian on how to get 2020 Ben to trust and believe what was being said - now granted he was working on a time travel project which would eventually allow this but whatever info Dottie imparted led to Ben believing then contacting Janis and getting her to abandon her life for this and feel she has no choice - and again this already feels like we are in an altered timeline where Janis *was* originally on the project and then was kept off it by something changing.
I also wonder if the reason Ben needs to save Addison actually from her accidental or intentional killing or could it be an attempt to *erase* her somehow?
Was she accidentally killed? Murdered? Was she instead captured and brainwashed by Lothos? Perhaps arrested and thrown in prison on trumped up charges - maybe she is killed while leaping or simply lost I'm time. Needing to save her can mean many things.
We still have quite a few dangling threads from the original series - Sam is the biggest elephant missing from our room - but there are plenty of others.
And ugh where does the other leaper to be, who Ben met, fit in. What about some of the other changes made are they just stepping stones to build temporal momentum or do the specific lives he touch matter also in the master plan?
