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Time travel doesn't exist. What happens is a shifting, moving between the infinite possibilities in the multiverse. All multiverses run parallel to one another, but they don't intersect - unless someone figures out how to shift - which would also appear like time travel. Then your conciousness in your current reality, would be able to be experienced in the next. Imagine a bunch of parallel lines, representing your life and it's infinite possibilities (as you move further from the close universes, things change more and more until they become unrecognisable and eventually you don't exist at all). Everyone else has their own lines, imagine them in a different colour. Or maybe a cube made up of multiple layers in every dimension, but the sides are infinite. To shift means to be able to draw perpendicular lines through them all and... shift to the other reality.
"Time travel" is just shifting to a reality (you could call it a timeline), where your favoured predestination is what happens. You CAN'T change what will happen, but by having the power to "time travel" you can shift to a line where it seems that way.
So, Simon. He goes into the past. Now he KNOWS that he will need to take a bullet for Alicia, so he will wear kevlar the next time so...
No, he can't. It's not the SAME Simon. Simon who takes the bullet is future!Simon. Simon who loses Alicia to Rachael is Current!Simon. If future!Simon wears kevlar, two Simons will exist. WHile this IS what happens in one the lines, it's not the one this Simon wants to occur.
SO, future!Simon goes back KNOWING that at some stage in the future current!Simon will lose Alicia, and there isn't a goddamn thing anyone can do about it because future!Simon will have to save her life at another point and die.
So why can't he just tell Alicia to watch out for Rachael, that this is how it will pan out. Of course, fate reasserts itself.
So was the ORIGINAL line Simon was in one where Alicia died when Tim shot her? Thus leaving him alone all that time until he felt ready to go back, until Seth was in a position to grant him the powers he required to do so. Is it all a selfish ploy because he just wanted Alicia in the first place? Or is it just Simon doing his "I must protect the gang" thing, and he figures that's the only way he can save her? Because in that reality Rachael couldn't have killed her because she was already dead. So what DID happen in that instance? Who DID die? Why would Seth have been willing to "loan" Simon 10 grand and give him that power out of the goodness of his heart as it were?
Gahhhhh...
Okay, I now need to rewatch the show and figure out every time Superhoodie's intervention means someone doesn't die. I have a feeling the original timeline involved them ALL dying except Simon. Thus giving him the extra time and motivation to learn parkour and find the lair, and also setting off his "I must protect everyone" instinct. Shit, it's the reason Sally dies in the first place.
"Time travel" is just shifting to a reality (you could call it a timeline), where your favoured predestination is what happens. You CAN'T change what will happen, but by having the power to "time travel" you can shift to a line where it seems that way.
So, Simon. He goes into the past. Now he KNOWS that he will need to take a bullet for Alicia, so he will wear kevlar the next time so...
No, he can't. It's not the SAME Simon. Simon who takes the bullet is future!Simon. Simon who loses Alicia to Rachael is Current!Simon. If future!Simon wears kevlar, two Simons will exist. WHile this IS what happens in one the lines, it's not the one this Simon wants to occur.
SO, future!Simon goes back KNOWING that at some stage in the future current!Simon will lose Alicia, and there isn't a goddamn thing anyone can do about it because future!Simon will have to save her life at another point and die.
So why can't he just tell Alicia to watch out for Rachael, that this is how it will pan out. Of course, fate reasserts itself.
So was the ORIGINAL line Simon was in one where Alicia died when Tim shot her? Thus leaving him alone all that time until he felt ready to go back, until Seth was in a position to grant him the powers he required to do so. Is it all a selfish ploy because he just wanted Alicia in the first place? Or is it just Simon doing his "I must protect the gang" thing, and he figures that's the only way he can save her? Because in that reality Rachael couldn't have killed her because she was already dead. So what DID happen in that instance? Who DID die? Why would Seth have been willing to "loan" Simon 10 grand and give him that power out of the goodness of his heart as it were?
Gahhhhh...
Okay, I now need to rewatch the show and figure out every time Superhoodie's intervention means someone doesn't die. I have a feeling the original timeline involved them ALL dying except Simon. Thus giving him the extra time and motivation to learn parkour and find the lair, and also setting off his "I must protect everyone" instinct. Shit, it's the reason Sally dies in the first place.
