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>It was a love story at the end.
To be fair, the book was the same way. Sadie was a significant part of the story and they actually got that right for the most part. The problem is the failure of the surrounding story to put this relationship in its proper context.
>All this time travel fiction
>shit, and no clarification on what caused things to go to
>shit.
The book lays out a more detailed sequence of events. They could have easily cut & pasted Harry’s recollection of events word for word and explained this so much better. The explanation also works better if they told the story better from the beginning. Details aside, the ultimate reason is pretty simple: Jake was fucking around with things he didn’t understand in the slightest and caused things to become highly unstable.
Again, had they told the story better, this would make more sense. The book breaks down the entire sequence of events and there’s enough detail that JJ and Bridgett could have spent two more episodes doing nothing but telling this story.
>Why was it that he succeeded and the yellow card hat dude
>didn't.
I don’t even know what they were trying to do there. This might be the most egregious error of the entire thing because the Yellow Card Man is critical. He only pops up a few times but he’s the key to making sense of everything. Even the color of the card is of some importance.
>Why was it the whole time Sadie who would always die and make
>the world go to shit?
Without spoiling too much of this, that portal isn’t quite the “reset” button Al thinks it is. Al thought each trip was the first time, every time, but that isn’t exactly the case. It resets but leaves a “residue” of some kind.
Each time Al went back, he created a new “string”. The changes Al made to these strings were relatively minor so the damage to those strings was minor but Jake was making major changes and that made things incredibly unstable.
Where Al was a butterfly dipping it’s wing on an ocean and causing slight ripples, Jake was taking a running start doing cannonballs and fucking everything up. The Yellow Card man is basically a watcher of that portal and he basically has to hold each of those new strings in his head. Each of those strings presented a series of images of possible futures, which changed based on the changes made within that string. Each trip back was a rest but it also leaves that residue, so to speak, and if the ‘machine’, or universe, is filled with too much of this ‘residue’…… it may just shut down all together.
So Jake is basically fucking with the foundations of reality itself and has put existence itself in grave danger.
Again, everything between Jake saving JFK to his return to the present and these revelations about what’s really going on to the ending could have been done over the course of two episodes….but they failed the story from the first episode so a lot of this wouldn’t have worked.
The book is magnificent and this show wasn’t trash because it didn’t stay true, this show was trash because it failed in all the details that made the book great. I highly recommend it and if you like I can shoot you a copy of the audiobook, which is very well produced.
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