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I just finished my Season 3 binge. A worthy end if we never got another season, but I can't help but wonder what is the shape of Traveler Program 2.0? Different protocols? Different team structures? A different approach to missions? Allowing Helios to happen? I have so many questions!

There is a theory out there that the E2 Jay Garrick we know is really the E2 Everyman who decided to imitate The Flash by assuming his likeness and taking Velocity 6 which caused his cell degeneration. That explains why his DNA is different than E1 Hunter Zolomon, because he's not really the same person. Following this theory then, the Man in the Mask is the real E2 Jay Garrick and Zoom is E2 Jay Garrick from the future. Zoom locked up his past self and when E2 Flash "disappeared", then Everyman assumed the likeness and tried to take up the slack by taking the Velocity 6 drug, but that caused his illness. This might make sense because the E2 Jay Garrick that we know has never demonstrated *any* ability to access the Speed Force without use of a drug. This theory does not explain why the Man in the Mask can't escape by himself though, if he is really the E2 Flash, unless Zoom has somehow disabled him.

An unanswered question for me is: Who wrote the worm???? Obviously it was no one shown in the episode, the executive with the implant caused it didn't even know what it would do. Walter couldn't even defeat it and it exhibited very advanced malicious behavior. Does this point to a nefarious evil genius character behind scenes or just poor writing?

I'm in the same boat, just started watching on Netflix and am currently on 1.9. Another thing I haven't seen mentioned is the whole 1 child policy, but I think this is actually a very common misconception in general. Perhaps it's because China is famous for a 1 child policy that your average person may think that couples having 1 child only is population stability. In reality it's not, it's a death sentence. It's simple math: 2 couples(4 people) each have one child Their 2 children get married and also have one child That means in 2 generations you have gone from 4 people to 1 person, ie, you have lost 75% of your population. If this has been going on for 3 generations at the station(assuming Clarke's is the 3rd generation and assuming 2500 people prior to the culling and the 100 being sent down), then they started with closer to 10000 people, and in another 100 years, per the original plan, they would probably be down to the 700 or so people that could fit in the lifeboats. Maybe that was the plan all along, or maybe the producers failed basic math. In the real world, Greece has the lowest fertility rate in Europe at around 1.3* and their population has declined by about 3% in the last 5 years. This is part of the unspoken reason why they can't fix their budget. You need 2.1 children per couple for population stability. The 0.1 is for the people who either die early or simply don't reproduce. So, in a zero growth population society, you would be encouraged to have 2 and only 2 children. Or perhaps couples with only 1 child could sell a voucher to couples who want to have 3 children. Oddly enough, I have never seen that in dystopian SF, just the 1 child policy(which is mathematically incorrect). PS: I take that back, in Ender's Game, the book, Ender is a 3rd child after his parents got government permission to have a 3rd child after they had their allowable 2. So at least Orson Scott Card can do basic math. *Greek Demographics here, for those curious about the numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Greece

Ohh right that makes sense. Maybe that was it and Cole is not the frozen corpse.

Does this then confirm that Cole really is the frozen corpse and the origin of the virus? Since he seemed to have a similar headache reaction when he got close to the corpse in The Night Room. I was looking to see if he got close enough in 1987 to have a similar reaction but I didn't see one if it happened.

So in the original timeline, as we suspected, Becca broke it off with Kevin due to the fallout with Lolly but still ended up losing both. It'll be interesting to see how Becca proceeds from here. It'll probably still end in tears of course. Ugh, that Live song...that's one I can continue to forget about. I never liked it. If they are playing some semi-obscure 90's, I wonder if they'll play any School of Fish.

I just had a thought. At the end, Aaron had what he called the after action report of Operation Troy with the timetable and location of the courier. The CIA would have had to give that to him. Does that mean the government now believes that Cole is really a time traveler?

This episode and the ending were so good that I would be satisfied if this was actually the end. That said, I can't wait to see what's next.

This show is incredibly goofy, but somehow it stays fun to watch.

The Sarah McLachlan song Possession came out in 1993 with her album, but it took a little while to get popular. My father passed away on Dec 31 2002 and I remember that the Coldplay song "Clocks" was played a lot on the radio at that time so that checks out for 2003. I don't remember any other specific songs in this episode?

This was my favorite episode so far. I also remember the "discovery" of fajitas in the 90's. I loved Jessica doing the pimp walk at the end, that made me LOL. I felt like she should have done that with Dr. Dre's "Nuthin' but a G Thang" playing in the background. That would have been even more awesome.

Actually I think we've seen this explored a fair number of times in this genre. For instance in the original Highlander movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKZATZHWZI

What if the Witness is some future version of Cole who has seen too many timeline variations and now just wants to set it back by releasing the virus. The Pallid Man has said that the Witness is seen where all this leads and wants to set things right.

My first cell phone was in 2000 but it was already a 5th gen nokia flip phone. I felt like I was late to the game. I noticed they were already starting to be somewhat common by 1997 though the plans were fairly expensive back then. There's a line in a song by Lil' Troy called Wanna be a Baller where he says he switched from Motorola to a PrimeCo phone. PrimeCo was a big Houston cell phone provider back then and this song came out in 1998. The original Motorola StarTAC flip phone come out on Jan 3 1996, according to Wikipedia. So there were definitely affordable consumer level cell phones by 1995.