the travelers keep thinking after a mission is over something will happen where they die and go home to see how the future is changed.
I've argued, in several threads, that Dr Bloom, the old lady everyone else called
"The Engineer" most likely started as just another Traveler, when the program was new -- hence her low Traveler number. She was just Traveler 117, when every other Traveler we meet is in the thousands. I can't remember if we met anyone with a number in the 2000s. I remember lots of 3000 numbers.
I think this strongly suggests Bloom (The closed caption calls her
"Bloom", several viewers keep referring to her as
"Blue") traveled to the 20th or 21st Century, did a good job on her mission, and was rewarded with a promotion on her return.
Yes, other explanations are possible, like her number was assigned at training time, but she proved so talented during training she was bumped to a planning role without ever going operational before now.
The episode where they meet a team that has lost half its team members suggest being a Traveler is a one way trip, as those team members are as upset about their team member dying, as if he were really dying, and couldn't just be sent back to them the next time a nearby 21st century guy was about to die.
If dying Travelers's consciousnesses normally return to HQ, when their host is killed, or can sometimes return to HQ, if they commit hari-kari, with the right preparation, then should this stop if they really succeeded in diverting the Space Rock?
So, the fact that Travelers were sent back to inhabit Donner, Congressman Bishop, and those hot camgirls, suggests either their mission failed, and they succeeded but a previously unknown third party is pretending to be their HQ.
If they start getting messages telling them to rob Fort Knox, and then bury the gold, they should suspect piracy.
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cluascorp-56301
8 years ago
That is what I enjoy about this show, there are so many possibilities :)
Wonder if/when we get a definite answer on whether they return to the future, if they die ...?
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Sluggr-3
8 years ago
I wonder if we get an obligatory man trapped in a woman's body to satisfy diversity requirements. It could easily happen with this show.
I would vote for their future selves dying in the transfer process. If there is no cost or risk to this experiment than it demeans the significance. In the case of Donner, he actually believed that being in a cell in the 21st was better than his life in the 26th. I wonder how many misfires they had in the beginning, because clearly the girl in the car was one.
To me it is like going into the space program or being a test pilot. You get some incredible experiences but there is a cost that you might not survive. I still think the story line of Mac being scared to fly was brilliant. Suitcase full of antimatter, no problem. Getting on a plane, OMG! Too bad they didn't have him on the plane that Denzel flew in Flight. That would pretty much turn everyone off to flying. FWIW, I have a bud who is a pilot for a major, and I mentioned seeing a plane do a move like through an S-curve chicane to avoid a storm front before landing, and he replied that there were about 5 different times where as they landed, he looked at the co-pilot and said "some people on this flight might never get on a plane again."
My Chimp DNA seems to have lost its password temporarily. Sluggr-2
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