They literally are the same person, just with different life experiences.
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aurelia - Mar 26, 2012 8:15:08 pm PDT #19812 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Polter-Cow - Mar 26, 2012 8:16:33 pm PDT #19813 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But don't your life experiences make you who you are?
That is, of course, the question at hand.
aurelia - Mar 26, 2012 8:33:54 pm PDT #19814 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Okay, physically they are the same person.
I love that the show does this to us but I may need another drink and my existential whale t-shirt before I can continue.
Theodosia - Mar 27, 2012 2:05:56 am PDT #19815 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
This may actually be the point of "Olivia Must Die" prophecy, now that I think on it.
But I think I sit over on Consuela's side of the argument.
§ ita § - Mar 27, 2012 4:39:04 am PDT #19816 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
maybe it will spread to Walter and onward
I think that's already started happening. The Observer certainly implied as much, even if John Noble hadn't been playing it this way already. The whole world is changing, it looks like. She's just changing first and fastest.
sj - Mar 27, 2012 5:23:29 am PDT #19817 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I think that's already started happening. The Observer certainly implied as much, even if John Noble hadn't been playing it this way already. The whole world is changing, it looks like. She's just changing first and fastest.
I think John Noble has been playing it that way, at least a little. Walter has become more and more comfortable around Peter in recent episodes and started calling for him in the lab. It's certainly more subtle than what is happening with Olivia, but I think Walter and Peter's relationship is starting to feel more and more what we're used to.
-t - Mar 27, 2012 5:33:32 am PDT #19818 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This may actually be the point of "Olivia Must Die" prophecy, now that I think on it.
That is interesting. And might make me feel better about the whole thing, oddly.
aurelia - Mar 27, 2012 5:37:42 am PDT #19819 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
The whole world is changing, it looks like. She's just changing first and fastest.
I would agree with this.
Polter-Cow - Mar 27, 2012 5:59:03 am PDT #19820 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Is she really making a choice if she has no choice?
§ ita § - Mar 27, 2012 6:03:21 am PDT #19821 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is she really making a choice if she has no choice?
They fight in scenarios where people would consider there no choice. It's what they do. She doesn't have to accept or even look forward to what's happening, and she doesn't have to consider it inevitable. Within the narrative, she could certainly fight. She doesn't know what we do.