30 DAY JEOPARDY CHALLENGE
Day 25 - Favorite Theory?
I’m gonna say two theories. I’m not sure which of these is my favourite but the first one is that, when Harry and Lucy travel through the portal back in time to where it all began they travelled to the wrong timeline or an alternate universe. There are a few things that give credence to this theory:
Some of them are all wearing very similar but also different clothes than they were originally wearing on what is supposed to be the same day as Mr. Simmons announced they’d be going on the trip.
Shona’s character is the complete opposite of how she’s always been. She was no way good friends with Chrissie when the series started out. Shona is kind and extremely caring but when they supposedly travel back threw time she goes as far as calling Lucy “loopy”. Real Shona would never do that. And I feel like some of the others, such as David and Sarah wouldn’t have reacted the way they did to Harry and Lucy’s arrival.
The fact that Lucy gets red-eye proves that they can’t have changed their own past. There is no way the group in the final episode would have gone to Australia after seeing all those tapes. If they had prevented everyone from going on the trip, Lucy would never have gotten the red-eye virus in the first place.
The fact that there are versions of Harry and Lucy from what is supposedly their own past suggests that following the advice of the aliens didn’t turn out as planned. Or maybe the aliens knew all along that, like Lucy said to Simon in 3x09, “If Sarah and David try to save us they'll be changing the past. No one can change the past. We can only try to change the future.” And Lucy’s been pretty good at predicting things. The girl literally has prophetic dreams. We don’t know when or if they stopped.
The second theory is the ‘Lucy’s Dream Theory’. Lucy is a character who is very much connected to dreams. As mentioned above she is the main character to have prophetic dreams in season 2. I remember how vividly she dreamed of Mr. Simmons’ whereabouts. What if her dreams are reality and reality is actually her dreams. I could go on so many tangeants with this theory and I need to think it over more.
If this is true then I believe the dream started just before Mr. Simmons announced they’d be going on a trip- in that case the scene at the end would be the real announcement. Perhaps Lucy never had friends so she imagined having them. As the story comes to a close she gets more and more panicky perhaps because she’s waking up and at the end, when she gets red-eye, that could symbolize her either waking up or choosing to retreat into her dream world and stay there.
The thing that really makes me think that it all might be Lucy’s dream is when she has a breakdown and says: “I was just trying to think. But it wouldn’t work...Have you ever woken up from a dream, and as you open your eyes, somewhere between asleep and awake you feel like it’s real?” And then Harry says, “Yeah, and you panic ‘cause you don’t know where you are.” And then Lucy continues, “That’s exactly it. Except now, instead of being asleep and feeling like it’s real, I’m awake and feel like I’m dreaming.” And later Harry says, “Maybe none of this is real. Maybe they just want to make us believe it is.” Could her subconscious be trying to tell her something here?
gracieabrams
origamiaround
gummygunk
germansingergirl
theartofmadeline
yousharknotpass
pixelskylines
amandla
prguitarman
