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icepixieI just watched through 1x14, "Ability."
So things are finally starting to happen with this Pattern thing! And there are PARALLEL UNIVERSES! Oh, man, between the VR.5-iness of the experiments on kids, and the Sliders-ness of the whole multiverse thing, I feel like I've time-traveled back to 1995.
Anyway. My current theory: People from this other universe (the more technologically-advanced one mentioned in ZFT) have been infiltrating ours. I am unsure if the same person can co-exist with his/her AU counterpart or if there's necessarily a replacement; I kind of think the "Olivia Dunham" who rented the van in this episode is her counterpart from the AU. These AU folks may have their own ways of getting to our universe, but we have one as well--Walter's teleportation device is in fact a method of exchanging oneself with one's AU counterpart. (Which possibly explains Jones's sickness--this transportation is a bad idea--although it doesn't fit with another part of my theory.)
Moreover, this device has been used before. Walter traded our Peter for the AU!Peter when he was a child, and this is why the Peter on the show doesn't remember being sick, being experimented on, etc.; it never actually happened to him. Walter did this because our Peter was very sick, and the AU had better medicine. Not sure if force was involved or if this was an mutual exchange, nor why our Peter didn't come back. Another unanswered question: why AU!Peter now living in our universe didn't show similar effects to Jones (though maybe he did and got better; after all, we aren't entirely sure what happened to Jones after he left the hospital).
Olivia, on the other hand, was dosed with that drug to keep her from being replaced by her AU counterpart. I'm pretty sure Jones was involved in that--and thus was Massive Dynamic, since they made the drug, and I'm pretty sure he's working for them--because the way he said he could've hurt her long ago if he'd wanted to seemed like it was referring to her childhood. So in fact she passed the test because she couldn't make the lights go out, and Jones wanted her not to be able to. Peter, on the other hand, made the ones on the bomb go off, because he's from the AU. How and why Olivia was identified as a three-year-old is a mystery, but I'm betting one of her parents lists a subsidiary of Massive Dynamic on his or her resume.
Walter knows a hell of a lot more than he's letting on, like the fact that he was part of the group that came up with the ZFT manifesto, but I think he's probably too crazycakes to access the information on a consistent basis. But he definitely remembers using the device to switch out the Peters, and that the Peter hanging around the lab is not actually his son.
All right, how did I do? Am I on the right path? 50% correct? 75%? Totally wrong? I would prefer not to have anything too specific confirmed or denied, but I'd like to know if I'm completely out in left field or not.
So things are finally starting to happen with this Pattern thing! And there are PARALLEL UNIVERSES! Oh, man, between the VR.5-iness of the experiments on kids, and the Sliders-ness of the whole multiverse thing, I feel like I've time-traveled back to 1995.
Anyway. My current theory: People from this other universe (the more technologically-advanced one mentioned in ZFT) have been infiltrating ours. I am unsure if the same person can co-exist with his/her AU counterpart or if there's necessarily a replacement; I kind of think the "Olivia Dunham" who rented the van in this episode is her counterpart from the AU. These AU folks may have their own ways of getting to our universe, but we have one as well--Walter's teleportation device is in fact a method of exchanging oneself with one's AU counterpart. (Which possibly explains Jones's sickness--this transportation is a bad idea--although it doesn't fit with another part of my theory.)
Moreover, this device has been used before. Walter traded our Peter for the AU!Peter when he was a child, and this is why the Peter on the show doesn't remember being sick, being experimented on, etc.; it never actually happened to him. Walter did this because our Peter was very sick, and the AU had better medicine. Not sure if force was involved or if this was an mutual exchange, nor why our Peter didn't come back. Another unanswered question: why AU!Peter now living in our universe didn't show similar effects to Jones (though maybe he did and got better; after all, we aren't entirely sure what happened to Jones after he left the hospital).
Olivia, on the other hand, was dosed with that drug to keep her from being replaced by her AU counterpart. I'm pretty sure Jones was involved in that--and thus was Massive Dynamic, since they made the drug, and I'm pretty sure he's working for them--because the way he said he could've hurt her long ago if he'd wanted to seemed like it was referring to her childhood. So in fact she passed the test because she couldn't make the lights go out, and Jones wanted her not to be able to. Peter, on the other hand, made the ones on the bomb go off, because he's from the AU. How and why Olivia was identified as a three-year-old is a mystery, but I'm betting one of her parents lists a subsidiary of Massive Dynamic on his or her resume.
Walter knows a hell of a lot more than he's letting on, like the fact that he was part of the group that came up with the ZFT manifesto, but I think he's probably too crazycakes to access the information on a consistent basis. But he definitely remembers using the device to switch out the Peters, and that the Peter hanging around the lab is not actually his son.
All right, how did I do? Am I on the right path? 50% correct? 75%? Totally wrong? I would prefer not to have anything too specific confirmed or denied, but I'd like to know if I'm completely out in left field or not.
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:06 am (UTC)I thought I probably had the general theory right and the specifics wrong.
I'm still impressed, though; at this point in the series I had no idea what was going on and hadn't put together a single cohesive theory.
Too much of this kind of thing at impressionable ages with XF and Alias, perhaps? I love spinning theories like this.
(Also, is that Peter making a Vulcan salute in your icon? AWESOME.)
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:08 am (UTC)Peter is indeed wishing someone to live long and prosper. It's pretty epic.
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-06 04:46 am (UTC)To be fair, the show (as with all of Abrams's shows, to generalize from my Alias experience) doesn't like to think too hard either. Why is Peter even still around? How is he allowed to go on field missions? His "translating for my father because I'm smart" thing is complete BS. Harris...seriously, the dude would not even have a government job after a stint in jail, much less be allowed to investigate the woman who put him away. And I'm not even touching all the joke science...