(04-23-2017, 07:20 AM)Mrtrick Wrote:(04-22-2017, 04:35 PM)irukandji Wrote:(04-22-2017, 09:09 AM)MarylikesGrimm Wrote: Kouf said there was a hard reset in two different interviews but a not alternate reality. Of course that does not explain why the ring is missing. The staff opened the portal so it could have gone through itself and Diana's memories too since she has special powers with sensing other worlds. I can make two guesses: 1) that the staff removed the ring for Nick. 2) once the ring curse was broken the ring disappears and cannot come back. There does not seem to be a simple explanation that fits EP views and the facts in the show.
I've done a hard reset on my ipod, which is a process to restore it to its factory settings. I don't know what Kouf would mean by doing a hard reset back to Monroe's house. It further doesn't make sense when they throw thought experiments like Schroedinger's cat into the dynamics.
If it was a simple reset of time, then technically speaking, the Z should have been restored back to life as well.
They're presenting an analogous discription, not a literal one. Greenwalt and Kouf are merely trying to say that it's not a brand new reality created whole cloth, but a return to a fixed point on an existing timeline. The more apt phrase would be a soft reset. The events that happened, will have always happened. And like a soft reset, much of that data carries forward. But there is no seperate timeline where Trubel is hanging out with a couple of kids, because paradoxically, it can not exist. The staff has never been shown to have the ability to create something from nothing, but it can be used as a key to open doorways through time and space. It was able to intuit Nick's need to resurrect his family, and choose the most direct route. The portal is the key to why this isn't a wholly new reality. It has to already exist at a specific moment in time, for the staff to utilize it. And if the portal already exists, the moment Nick leaps to, has to already exist. Sort of like a temporal wormhole, he is passing from a future point to a past point, but everyone still made a linear journey.
This wasn't a time jump, a hard reset or even a soft one. There was no reason for Nick to go back in time.
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