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Inefficient treveler deployment (contains Spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by Dr_King_Schultz
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Alright, i get the "rules" of traveler-deployment
- hosts are chosen by their time of death
- but it ist also possibe to capture hosts who are not approaching death
- the travelers normally dont do that to avoid altering the timeline

Given these rules I do not understand why the deploy the host in such a strange way if it is for important missions. Why dont they just capture more important hosts?

Shooting the Laser at the asteroid would be easygoing if they just captured Dr. Delaney. If this day is a turning point for humanity it does not matter if Dr Delaney would be important for the timeline, beacause a brand new timeline is started.

And even if w go with the rule not to alter the timeline more than necessary. Why do they capture a bus full of old people to ambush soldiers with automatic weapons without killing them.
...in which universe does that not raise a LOT ofquestions in connection with the two explosions?
Was there no clownshool available to make it even more absurd?!?

Sadly episodes 7 and 8 did not follow up on these events. One mentioning of a "mushrrom cloud", but nothing else....

[–] Sluggr-3 8 years ago

The old people were part of a suicide cult. I assume all evidence of them vanished with the antimatter explosion. They were likely listed as "gone missing." There are currently 120+ people who have "gone missing" on Mt Ranier, but not all of them may be there. A few people each year drive out to Mt Hood, park their car, and are never seen again. Whether they died in a remote spot in the wilderness or used it as a convenient way to disappear no one knows. But I'm guessing all the geezers had relatives who were aware that they were part of a cult and therefore it had a plausible explanation for their disappearance.

Dr Delaney may very well have important things to do in the future which Blue alluded to, such as building antimatter bombs for the US if their plan doesn't work.

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

[–] Arienstarr 8 years ago

They have explained before that if they try to take over a living adult the adult dies. Sending a message back through a child can be done because the child's brain is still developing and can handle the transfer, but even they can't handle a full over-write of a new consciousness if the old consciousness wasn't scheduled to be destroyed by death. In the recent episode they show the stewardess being taken over to send a message to Grant that he is off mission, and then she immediately dies from the brain fry.

As for the bus of people, that was going to be a mass die-off and they needed to quickly get a mass number of travelers in one place, so they used that event. Because of the time constraints they couldn't wait for a more reasonable group to use as who knows when the next scheduled mass die-off would be.

As to not killing the soldiers, that is protocol 3: don't kill. As the future has no way of knowing who might become important as events change (everything they change now causes things to change in the timeline which makes things better or worse, making people exist, or not exist, be important or not important), they can't just kill people. As Carly says, protocol 3 is the only thing preventing her from killing her host's baby daddy, and even that is wearing thin on her.

As for other episodes mentioning the events, the show doesn't follow the whole world, so we don't know what other mentions of the explosion might have been going on outside the purview of our main characters. As the asteroid wasn't meant to hit for several months, maybe we'll get another mention closer to that event when the asteroid is picked up on radar and we learn if the laser actually worked. Also, we know that the future seems to have become worse, so it's possible that the explosion has put governments on alert which will cause new events that we just haven't learned of yet.