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No killing or saving people from the past....but

posted 8 years ago by nev-16035
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Time travel is always an interesting topic but something about this show, which I did enjoy, has had me thinking.
One of the protocols is the travelers aren't to save or kill anyone so they don't change the future but when a traveler takes over the body of a host who was meant to die aren't they technically saving them? As far as Kat knows her husband never died, Trevors parents never mourned their sons death because they never had to and the list goes on for every host who has a traveler taking over their life and assuming their roles like nothing happened to them. Friends and family notice changes in their personality but they have had their futures changed by never experiencing the deaths that should have happened. Surely they are tampering with the past by doing this?

[–] meira-hand 8 years ago

The exact protocol is: "Don’t take a life; don’t save a life, unless otherwise directed." - http://www.showcase.ca/blogs/8006/travelers-protocols-the-rules-of-being-a-traveler. Of course they are changing the past because this is why they are there to begin with. However they are trying to limit unintended changes as much as possible, outside any specific mission.

[–] nev-16035 8 years ago

Thanks for the explanation, makes more sense now. It wasn't really bothering me, was just a thought I had.

[–] Sluggr-3 8 years ago

And don't make a life. I think one of the plot devices in season 2 will be Macs wife getting herself knocked up.

Another aspect of the show is the length of the mission. The team they ran into in ep 2 I believe had been here for 15 years and you see that they were starting to go off the reservation a bit, which may be why the director doesn't send back replacement members. Each team likely is trained for a primary mission which is accomplished in the first hours, days, week, or months, and then they are there as support people for future teams. Things have to be bleak if you join a program where your mission is to get shot at, and if you survive that, get blown to the elemental level by an anti-matter explosion.

The guy who becomes Bishop will likely vote differently on a key bill, or change allegiance and start to vote a consistent pattern to effect changes deemed necessary by the director, but then vote on other matters as Bishop would normally. Hey, this might explain some of our otherwise schizophrenic congresscritters.

My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2

[–] info-655-196140 8 years ago

The director is a big computational machine that calculates how things affect the future and allows for certain things but not others, taking over host bodies is part of its plan for the future.