Depends on how you define 'dying'. I have this strange feeling we'll find out that Travelers aren't so much actual individuals as maybe they are uploaded, copies of actual people and/or somehow connected to a virtual world(maybe). It would certainly explain how Grace could 'reboot' Marcy because, up until that point, it was kind of stated in the show that you can't transmit a consciousness through time without the attendant technology and that that technology doesn't exist in present time(yet?). However, it can be explained if Grace merely "reinstalled Marcy OS" from a "backup" in the future altered to bypass any damaged portions of her host's brain.
Why do I think this? Well, it's for two reasons:
1)When they start hallucinating as a side effect of their inoculation for what happens in the Helios 365 episode, the future people they hallucinate are dressed in clothes very reminiscent of how people dressed in the real world(not to mention that Grant has seen similar clothing in flash"forwards" in earlier episodes) in the Matrix films. Also, Phil(?) hallucinates future food which looks very much like the 'goop' eaten in those films. Not to mention, future people in both those movies and this show are living underground because the surface world is ruined(albeit for different reasons).
2)Transfer of consciousness through time reminds me somewhat of what happens in the Spider Robinson novel, "Time Pressure". Although, in that story, this method of time travel has a somewhat more sinister purpose; well, sinister may be a bit of a strong way to describe it but you'll be pleasantly surprised why the future antagonists are transferring consciousness..es... through time. Saying any more would probably spoil the rest of the story but, suffice to say, if I did tell you you'd understand further reasons why I thought of that story in regards to what is happening in this show. Anway, if you haven't read it, I HIGHLY recommend it along with most everything else Robinson has written.
**edit**Something else I just thought of which may bolster my theory. In the Helios 365 episode, if Bloom was in fact the same Traveler who took over Gleason and his men(I seem to recall it being stated that she was the one who absolutely wanted to trigger the laser), her being able to do so would be more likely if the Director is sending copy after copy of her consciousness back as each person is killed.
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Sluggr-3
8 years ago
One aspect of the show which I like is that one has to continually and consciously separate the "consciousness" from the chunk of protoplasm that they are inhabiting. One would hope tht they could match the person to the body, but at least with our team 2 of 5 were way of based on the databases they used.
But my only issue with this is Carly. As the enforcer in the group, I would expect her to be a disciplined military type personality, but instead, she be all cray cray whack like one might expect her host to be. A good soldier knows when to fight and when not to, say, as evidenced by when she had to pick up Phillip on the lam from the police. She took the deceptive strategic approach with spilled coffee vs all-out confrontation. So I am not sure why the writers have her running on hormones when it comes to the baby, unless that is just the hormones of the host interacting with her consciousness, the way Phillip's host body's opioid tolerance is messing with him, though by now he should be completely off even on a gradual taper (unless Phillip in the future is an addict looking for his first drug)
My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2
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