In Continuum , at this point , almost everybody seems to assume that traveling back in prison term from 2077 to 2012 will allow them to exchange the yesteryear , creating a new and dissimilar version of 2077 . So at this point , everybody ’s just seek to put his or her own postage stamp on the future . Except there ’s one major job .
Spoilers ahead …
The difficulty with going back in time and try out to change the future is , you wo n’t know if you ’ve succeeded — and you ca n’t predict how thing will plow out if you do make some change . You do n’t get a realtime information feed to permit you know how the future is lurch in reception to whatever actions you take .
So people keep telling Kiera that there ’s no point in her render to change the timeline , because it ’s already been deepen . Even aside from whatever the Liber8 pack has or has n’t accomplished , Kiera ’s probably made some pretty big shifts just by interact with Alec , who ’s kind of a big deal in the future . Is it true ? Has Kiera , just by herself , change the future to the full stop where the world she came from does n’t even exist any more ? There ’s no way of knowing . All we see are flashback to before Kiera and the others time - journey , which is presumably the“original ” future .
And meanwhile , Alec also indicate out this workweek that nothing is sure — Kellog tells him that by attempt to go into byplay with him , he ’s depend on a indisputable thing . But Alec responds that nothing is ever a sure matter . After all , even if Alec supervise to make a Brobdingnagian fortune and become Bill Gates , Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett all rolled into one in the original timeline , he could still be a dud in this existence .
So nobody really cognize if , or how , they ’re changing the timeline . And that ’s on top of the uncertainness about the ethics of change the timeline — is it wrong to wipe out people who have n’t been born yet ? Is Kiera ’s responsibility to carry on law and order in 2077 , signify the rule of the corporations , or to help the people in 2012 however she can ? As Alec steer out , she already faced that choice with the bombing in the first time of year finale — and she prefer to save life history in 2012 , even at the cost of radically alter the world of 2077 . ( And I ’m so glad someone point that out to her . )
At this point , there seem to be four unlike grouping in 2012 trying to act upon the future — if you do n’t count the “ freelancers ” or Escher or whoever . There ’s Kiera , who wants to keep the future the same , except when she does n’t . There ’s Sonya , who ’s act under direction from Kagame that necessitate dash Travis and taking over leadership — and presumptively , carrying out whatever plan Kagame and Future Alec hatched together , before Kagame went back in time . There are Travis and Garza , who ’ve gone rascal and divvy up the Liber8 goal , but are n’t in on Kagame ’s plans . And then there ’s Kellog , who just wants to go into business with Alec , so they can make an empire even large and more herculean than the one Future Alec already ruled .
Last night ’s episode , “ Split Second , ” was a pretty peppy outing , in which Sonya manipulate Travis into murdering half a XII Aryan Nation captive , so he ’ll be transfer to a new prison . During the captive transfer of training , Sonya tries to kill Travis while Garza seek to deliver him , and Travis tries to screw with Carlos ’ head . In the end , Garza wins and she and Travis form their own little splinter grouping , steal all of Sonya ’s hired gun . And in a flashback , we study that Sonya was a scientist who avail plow Travis into a super - soldier , and when she was ordered to terminate the project ( and him ) , she killed her Bos and went on the run with him instead .
And meanwhile , Alec is finding his intemperately - get ahead job at the Buy - More less thrilling than he ’d hoped , when his Bos pass up all of his upgrades to their computer systems and customers do n’t empathise the difference between a gigabyte and a terabyte . So when Kellog comes to Alec and offers him the chance to start his own troupe , with limitless resourcefulness and blistering babes on a racing yacht , the choice is sort of a no - brainer . ( At this point , I ’m question why Kellog ever hooked up with Liber8 , since he is likely a pure capitalistic shark . I guess he was just a sociopath who found Liber8 useful , but you have to question why they ever wanted him on the squad . )
Alec star sign on with Kellog , maybe because he ’s wowed by the speeches about feel no fear and inspiring maximal fear — but perchance also because he ’s trying to figure out what his future self actually wanted , and why his succeeding self sent these terrorist and one cop back in time . And also , whether he ought to confide his own future self . In that maddenly vague recorded subject matter we heard last week , Future Alec take he took the man down a “ dark route ” and wants to change things — but Kellog insists that Future Alec actually just wanted to alter the timeline so he could become even more powerful than just a plain old mega - oligarch .
So which is it ? Did Future Alec want to avert the ascent of the plutocracy , or propel himself to an even higher position on top of the heap ? And once again , will we even know how Alec ’s actions in 2012 are affecting the circumstances of his future self ?
Meanwhile , there are hints that some time traveler from 2077 are already working to bring about the ascent of corporatocracy earlier than before — Agent Gardiner talks to his superior about Kiera , and she reiterates that “ Escher ” has vouch for Kiera . To which he responds , “ The CEO of a pot giving order to our word service ? That just does n’t total up . ” And she respond , “ My higher-ranking vouches for him . For all we know , Pylon is Section-6 , ” meaning the fictional bureau that Kiera purportedly comes from . So Escher , whoever he or she is , is the CEO of a major caller who ’s already got undue influence in the administration . This could get interesting .
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