From what I took from the ending, is that those kids were all in favor of the reckonings to keep the towns people in line.
Talking about the past isn’t an issue, just complying with the Orwellian-like society they grew accustom to and were brainwashed into embracing.
I think they skipped over those 3+ years to save something in case there would be a second season, as M. Night seems to suggest the team would be all for it and already have ideas what they would do.
So, perhaps they were thinking of filling in what transpired in those three years Charlie was asleep. Although, overcoming the new First Generation regime would feel like a total retread (yawn) of the first season. I’d be for a 2nd season, if they can fill in the blanks, and take it somewhere interesting, like, is there more to these creatures and the rest of the world everyone was ignorant about, etc.
I agree with this - if anything, the ending is “you reap what you sew” and shows that Pilcher’s ideas filtered down to the ‘first generation’ exactly as he and ‘blond teacher’ thought necessary. There really isn’t anymore to tell or questions to answer - Ben struggling to change things would be boring - we’ve seen that in his father’s arch already.
And of course, we - as the audience - get to see just how incorrect that is/was thru Ethan and whatshername (cop partner that said “as you can tell, I work better with more info”.)
The most interesting part of the final 2/3 episodes was watching Nurse Pam come to that same realizations
But yeh, it wasn’t time travel. It was almost magical cryo-sleep.
I got the impression he formed a movement with the help of his sister, garnered donations, hedge funds, shell corps, licensed his own technology to enormous profits, etc. in the period from ~1999 to 2014. During that time, he built and stocked the mountain complex.
No human being who has ever lived has been rich enough to pull this scheme off and keep it secret. What we saw would cost in the hundreds and hundreds of billions to pull off, even assuming that it lies on the very edge of technological plausibility.
the time travel statement was meant tounge in cheek - it also harkens back to earlier in the thread where people thought time travel was what the answer was to the story.
He explicitly said 'various shell corporations and charity" when asked the question during Ethan’s tour.
First you have to hypothesize a convincing future analysis. Then you should run a campaign lecture hall to lecture hall across as many universities as you can. Failing that, write a book or three on the upcoming catastrophe for humankind. THEN you can begin the process of building a cult following, and spend your billions through previously said means creating an ark in the mountainside of Northern Idaho, abducting hundreds of people over 15 years and putting them into magical cryosleep (including yourself) for 2000+ years.
When you put it that way, I think the easiest part would be coming up with the magical stasis field that preserves complex machinery and electronics for thousands of years.
What kind of power system can remain functional for two thousand years without humans maintaining it?
Where is all the food coming from?
How, if civilization as we know it lasted until beyond the year 2095, did Pilcher block off a real town in the United States? (note people in 2014 refer to Wayward Pines as an actual town.)
He didn’t block off a real town. He somehow caused people to have accidents (without getting hurt) before they got to the real town, then took them to his mountain hidey-hole and froze them. Then he called the new town the same name as the one they had been heading for.
Megan (Hope Davis) says that the tunnel will take them to an elevator and she knows the code. Burk and girlfriend leave immediately and when they get to the elevator, girlfriend not only knows the code, but how to operate the control panel in the elevator. What?
Also, we never see Hope Davis die, which makes me think they kept that out so she could possibly be in a second season.
About as useless as these Abbies, which are apparently fearsome enough to take down a whole squad of soldiers solo, but put them up against some frightened townsfolk with guns and they get mown down like no-ones business.
