I watched season 1 of Continuum this week and before I start on season 2, I want to write down my thoughts about what Future Alec is up to.
The two main questions are:
1. Is Future Alec good or bad?
2. What is Kiera's role?
If Future Alec is good then maybe...
a) Alec intended to improve the world with his technology but instead the government and corporations abused his technology and the power it afforded them. Future Alec sends back the group to change the course of his younger self and create a better future.
b) Alec is going to make major changes in the future, but he needs different circumstances to work with. He sent back Liber8 to set up specific events in the past that are part of Alec's plans in the future.
If Future Alec is bad then maybe...
Things happened exactly the way Future Alec wanted. Liber8's actions in the past lead to the conditions we already see in the future. (Everything already happened, so Future Alec is simply going through the motions.)
It doesn't make sense for Future Alec to send both the Liber8 group and Kiera back in time for the same purpose. He would have known that Kiera, as a CPS officer, would interfere with Liber8's plans (which are Future Alec's plans). If Kiera is not going to help Liber8, then she must have a different role. These are the possibilities I came up with:
- protect young Alec, like Kyle Reese going back in time to protect Sarah Connor
- change the views of young Alec (make him re-think what it's like to rely on technology all the time)
- kill young Alec before he develops the tech we see in the future. I see this happening only if Future Alec thought there was no way to change the future unless he died in the past.
The two main questions are:
1. Is Future Alec good or bad?
2. What is Kiera's role?
If Future Alec is good then maybe...
a) Alec intended to improve the world with his technology but instead the government and corporations abused his technology and the power it afforded them. Future Alec sends back the group to change the course of his younger self and create a better future.
b) Alec is going to make major changes in the future, but he needs different circumstances to work with. He sent back Liber8 to set up specific events in the past that are part of Alec's plans in the future.
If Future Alec is bad then maybe...
Things happened exactly the way Future Alec wanted. Liber8's actions in the past lead to the conditions we already see in the future. (Everything already happened, so Future Alec is simply going through the motions.)
It doesn't make sense for Future Alec to send both the Liber8 group and Kiera back in time for the same purpose. He would have known that Kiera, as a CPS officer, would interfere with Liber8's plans (which are Future Alec's plans). If Kiera is not going to help Liber8, then she must have a different role. These are the possibilities I came up with:
- protect young Alec, like Kyle Reese going back in time to protect Sarah Connor
- change the views of young Alec (make him re-think what it's like to rely on technology all the time)
- kill young Alec before he develops the tech we see in the future. I see this happening only if Future Alec thought there was no way to change the future unless he died in the past.
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