@tedsheridan8725

3 years ago

The one question I really wanted to see addressed was what was the point of Noah testing the time machine in S1, when they already had working time devices of various kinds at Sic Mundus. It doesn't make sense to invent and test a machine that they already know how it works and have designs for. But there is an explanation, I just wish they had included it. Something along these lines MUST have happened for the evolution of the machine to make sense. My head canon scene goes like this: THE SCENE I WANTED TO SEE: Flashback around 1890, Stranger Jonas has hit a wall trying to recreate his own working time machine, because without dark matter, he can't power it without using the caves' energy. He is surprised to see adult Noah come in. Noah gives him the research he's done in the bunker and the plans for the first successfully working time machine (the improved chair that sends Helge back). Noah tells the Stranger that three boys had to die in order to do the experiments, but it paid off and you can use this design to finally start perfecting your own time machine. The Stranger realizes he has to trust Noah, accepts this, and is one of the first moral compromises he makes on his journey to become Adam. Suspiciously, he then asks Noah who sent him. Noah replies - 'you did'. Later Noah returns to Adam around 1920, and says 'it is done'.  This would have given the needed payoff of all the kidnappings and experiments / in season 1, which were barely alluded to in season 2, and would have shown how the Stranger makes ethical compromises to become so cold and heartless (something else I thought was missing).

38 |