I RECENTLY finished Season 2 of the much anticipated Umbrella Academy.
Besides the comedy and action, a recurring theme in the season was time travel. One point I found interesting about that aspect of the show was how it sent the message that you can’t change the past.
The Hargreeves got stuck in the 1960s. An era of mafias, racism, LGBT intolerance as well as a misunderstanding of those with special needs. They found relationships with the people there.
When the siblings got the chance to return to the more developed 2019 they tried to bring their loved ones along with them. Those loved ones didn’t agree to go though. They knew they didn’t belong in the future.
Another plot point was them trying to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They knew when, how and who did it yet even though they tried they were not able to prevent the inevitable. It even showed that if Kennedy wasn’t assassinated, World War III would have occurred, thus “Doomsday”.
With all the new scientific discoveries of black holes and worm holes, time travel doesn’t seem as impossible as it used to be. Changing the past though is something that isn’t really recommended. Not because of spiritual “it was meant to happen” belief but because it is scientifically impossible.
Philosophers believe that changing events in the past won’t affect our current reality, but will instead trigger the emergence of another universe or dimension.
For example, if you were to go back in time and assassinate Adolf Hitler before he becomes a dictator, you wouldn’t change our current history but instead create a separate reality where the Holocaust and World War II probably didn’t happen.
Even in the Umbrella Academy, when they returned to 2019 they found themselves in a new reality where Reginald Hargreeves and Ben are alive and are part of the “Sparrow Academy”.
This is all very intriguing and could give us a wide array of possible realities. If you watch Rick and Morty you would know what having several dimensions could be like. It could give you several options on how to live your life but then again, it could end with multiple versions of yourself going against each other. Something straight out of science-fiction horror.
So, is it worth a shot?
After a quick *poof* we could create a reality where COVID doesn’t happen, or a reality where we aren’t in debt. However, we could also end up with a reality enveloped in nuclear warfare and genocide.
What do you think?/PN
