I believe you are correct. However things didn’t play out the same way every time. Kinda like the one Stargate episode. I imagine there were some times where Hitler became an artist and not the Führer. Where Castro played major league baseball and was not a revolutionary. A time where the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria did not take place and there was no War to end all wars.
Well, a whole lot of things would have to be different to avoid WWI. The assassination was just the spark that set off the powder keg – it was quite inevitable.
Actually, I think Francisco is correct the time line would likely be the same till Monica and Shelly show up as jin would not want to screw up their chance of existence and risk her opportunity to stop the loop.
We know there were some variations; for example, Jin mentioned that she didn’t meet Aaron until seven cycles ago (and liked him so much she fell in love six more times).
I do like to think that Jin tried at least a few wild variations, back in the cycles we didn’t see. Never mind Hitler; shoot Columbus. Send Chinese traders to settle the New World. Get Napoleon the commission in the British Navy he tried for. Fund every damn fool thing Tesla wanted to build. Keep George III from inciting the American Colonies to rebel. Whatever – Jin had considerable freedom of action knowing that even if everything possible went bad there was always another Reset coming in 2012.
Just look at what Murray’s character in Groundhog Day tried to break his loop. If I were stuck in a repeating time loop nearly 1500 years long, I’d try to change major things first in hopes of breaking it, then settle down and look for a cause. Step one would be to train my mind for the kind of recall needed over 80,000 years.
I imagine Jin tried all sorts of things, and then realized that the machine needed fixing. Once she did that, she set about finding the best hopes of fixing it and worked each time around to move towards that goal, until she finally got the psychology right and had all the random factors fall the right way.
Am I right in thinking that means the last 1,450 years repeated 56 times so there were 57 Adolf Hitlers, 57 Boeing Coorporations, etc?
I believe you are correct. However things didn’t play out the same way every time. Kinda like the one Stargate episode. I imagine there were some times where Hitler became an artist and not the Führer. Where Castro played major league baseball and was not a revolutionary. A time where the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria did not take place and there was no War to end all wars.
Well, a whole lot of things would have to be different to avoid WWI. The assassination was just the spark that set off the powder keg – it was quite inevitable.
Now I’m done being a smartarse.
Unless it started, say, 10-15 years earlier and was not nearly so deadly…
Actually, I think Francisco is correct the time line would likely be the same till Monica and Shelly show up as jin would not want to screw up their chance of existence and risk her opportunity to stop the loop.
That would only be after Monica and Shelly came to exist, which might not have been until the fortieth go round or so.
I’d say that the time loop has remained mostly the same throughout it’s duration, otherwise it most likely would have already been broken.
We know there were some variations; for example, Jin mentioned that she didn’t meet Aaron until seven cycles ago (and liked him so much she fell in love six more times).
I do like to think that Jin tried at least a few wild variations, back in the cycles we didn’t see. Never mind Hitler; shoot Columbus. Send Chinese traders to settle the New World. Get Napoleon the commission in the British Navy he tried for. Fund every damn fool thing Tesla wanted to build. Keep George III from inciting the American Colonies to rebel. Whatever – Jin had considerable freedom of action knowing that even if everything possible went bad there was always another Reset coming in 2012.
I now wish I was Jin in this situation. I can hardly imagine the possibilities.
And the pain, the guilt, the doubts, the maybes and what ifs. There is a bloody reason Jin wants to get out of the loop and die by growing old.
for the sake of saying so
1450*56 = 81200
Just look at what Murray’s character in Groundhog Day tried to break his loop. If I were stuck in a repeating time loop nearly 1500 years long, I’d try to change major things first in hopes of breaking it, then settle down and look for a cause. Step one would be to train my mind for the kind of recall needed over 80,000 years.
I imagine Jin tried all sorts of things, and then realized that the machine needed fixing. Once she did that, she set about finding the best hopes of fixing it and worked each time around to move towards that goal, until she finally got the psychology right and had all the random factors fall the right way.