Robservations #840
We're supposed to just go with it. But that's not easy, I know.
While the plot holes are fodder for speculation, they also bring mounting questions in the Watching Project that just simply have no right or wrong answer.
The most interesting thing at this point is Petofi endeavoring to work out how the I Ching works, and what he must do to go to the future.It's been fourty years since I've seen these episodes; so, I'll have to see where it goes, but it seems to me that there is a lot of laziness on the writer's part in following what had gone before or ignoring it to fit the characters into the direction they want to go . The only thing I remember about the Petofi storyline is that [spoiler]He takes over Quentin's mind for a while[/spoiler]
If Petofi went back to change things so he wasn't a werewolf, he might create a parallel world then and there.
I've heard SF fans repeat this idea endlessly for years, without explaining the supposed physics. A parallel universe occupying the same space at the same time? Don't you think it might take more to create an entire universe than someone choosing paper instead of plastic, say?
Nope. The theory says that whenever there are different choices presented to us, we do indeed make each choice, and each choice creates it own parallel world. It's all part of Quantum Mechanics and String Theory - and we've discussed it here on the forum before. I even once provided a link to a PBS special on the subject.
The theory says that whenever there are different choices presented to us, we do indeed make each choice, and each choice creates it own parallel world. It's all part of Quantum Mechanics and String Theory - and we've discussed it here on the forum before. I even once provided a link to a PBS special on the subject.
I wonder if that PBS special is still around or online?
I was under the impression that women of that time only wore dresses. Would the bottom half still have been called a skirt?
Count Petofi was really anxious to get to the future to escape from the gypsies. But wouldn't his body stay in 1897 like Barnabas's body did in the beginning? The gypsies could still find him and take his hand again as he sat there in his trance. [ghost_shocked]
But if your theory is correct, then
[spoiler]why did Q-tofi, when he got past the time barrier, awaken in the foyer of Collinwood, instead of the West Wing?[/spoiler]
I wonder why Tate's sketch did NOT come into being this time. Usually whatever he draws come to life the moment he's finished but not this time.Amanda didn't appear right in front of Tate when he first drew her; she came to life on the streets of New York, which must have startled anybody who was nearby. When Tate drew that glass, then somewhere - deep in the Amazon rain forest, perhaps - a glass appeared. By the way, he certainly has a taste for the over-ornate, doesn't he?
They will form one of 64 hexagrams, she says. Which is this one? he asks. She checks the book--the third, the kune (?) hexagram.