blindmansleeps
10-01-2011, 10:45 PM
While skimming through the forum posts, it seems that there's a lot of confusion as to how the tear was even made in the fabric of the universes without Peter. I want to try to clear that up a little with a thought.
1) PETER STILL EXISTED IN BOTH UNIVERSES! However, in both universes, Peter died as a child. This one is obvious, I think; but, I've still seen a few posts wondering why Walter would have gone to the other side if Peter did not exist, as if Peter never existed.
2) There are two interventions by September. But, one was not really an intervention, per se. The other, however, was.
The first instance in which September disrupted Walternate in his lab just when the cure was to be found was not an *intervention*. It was simply a bad coincidence. An intervention is when someone steps in to purposely alter a course, and September *accidentally* caused Walternate to miss the sign of Peternate's cure.
Side note: Why would September be in the lab in the first place? Well, we know that the Observers have been caught observing very important moments in history. Walternate creating a cure for whatever disease Peter had could potentially be a huge event in the other world--something September might want to witness. This, of course, is just and idea.
However, the second instance was definitely an intervention. When the Observer jumped into the lake to save Peter and Walter on their way back to the 'universe portal,' September was clearly intervening.
3) Now, if this second case is the intervention that December was referring to in 4.1, this means that Walter would have still went over to the other side to save Peter, but Peter would have died in the lake while Walter lived. Although we haven't been pointed in this direction yet, we might soon be shown that Peternate was found dead in a lake under mysterious circumstances, or simply went missing and was never found.
4) Although, this makes Peter's role in the primary timeline a little odd. If it wasn't really Peter that upset the balance between blueverse and redverse, but just Walter's infiltration of the redverse, then what role did Peter play that was so important? Was his role to simply offer a route by which the universes can cooperate? But, if that's the case, then why didn't the Observers go farther back, trying to stop Walter from infiltrating the other side in the first place, thereby stopping the entire universe-collapse altogether?
1) PETER STILL EXISTED IN BOTH UNIVERSES! However, in both universes, Peter died as a child. This one is obvious, I think; but, I've still seen a few posts wondering why Walter would have gone to the other side if Peter did not exist, as if Peter never existed.
2) There are two interventions by September. But, one was not really an intervention, per se. The other, however, was.
The first instance in which September disrupted Walternate in his lab just when the cure was to be found was not an *intervention*. It was simply a bad coincidence. An intervention is when someone steps in to purposely alter a course, and September *accidentally* caused Walternate to miss the sign of Peternate's cure.
Side note: Why would September be in the lab in the first place? Well, we know that the Observers have been caught observing very important moments in history. Walternate creating a cure for whatever disease Peter had could potentially be a huge event in the other world--something September might want to witness. This, of course, is just and idea.
However, the second instance was definitely an intervention. When the Observer jumped into the lake to save Peter and Walter on their way back to the 'universe portal,' September was clearly intervening.
3) Now, if this second case is the intervention that December was referring to in 4.1, this means that Walter would have still went over to the other side to save Peter, but Peter would have died in the lake while Walter lived. Although we haven't been pointed in this direction yet, we might soon be shown that Peternate was found dead in a lake under mysterious circumstances, or simply went missing and was never found.
4) Although, this makes Peter's role in the primary timeline a little odd. If it wasn't really Peter that upset the balance between blueverse and redverse, but just Walter's infiltration of the redverse, then what role did Peter play that was so important? Was his role to simply offer a route by which the universes can cooperate? But, if that's the case, then why didn't the Observers go farther back, trying to stop Walter from infiltrating the other side in the first place, thereby stopping the entire universe-collapse altogether?