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LoglineLa’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy.


Written by David Reed

Directed by Amanda Row

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[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They literally just clarified how time travel works in this episode. Clarifying the DTI books take that only big probability wave changes form stable alternates, most collapse back to the "prime" waveform and reinsert key events elsewhere if they're interfered with. Also we know we have at least one other time travel episode this year from Mariner and Boimler to appear.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but that clarification only holds until another writer on another time travel episode decides they need different mechanics for whatever story they want to tell. Because time travel is nothing more than a plot device, its nature changes depending on the plot it's facilitating.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Well they have an actual science consultant on the franchise now, which I assume if why this episode moved to a more of a modern understanding of time and multiverse theory here. Hopefully she keeps them consistent from here on.