Well, the wife and I binged Season One of Paradise and just finished Season Two, and loved it.
[Spoilers ahead ... ]
The ending of the second season was a feast for devotees of science fiction like me. It gave us a crackling AI story -- perfect for our day and presented with nice dose of time travel as well. Sinatra's explanation of how her beloved son Dylan, who died as a boy, can now be a man, is that Alex the AI can manipulate time.
This, of course, sets up some wild possibilities -- which time travel always does. If Alex the AI can resurrect Dylan, can it stop the disaster that played out so powerfully in the first season and set up the multi-dimensional second season? Why not? If fact, if I understand time travel, it can undue anything.
Here's what I mean: if I (PL 1) from World 1 go back in time and accidentally prevent one set of my grandparents from meeting, that would instantly create a world in I no longer exist. So how could I have gone back in time in the first place and interfered with my grandparents meeting? This is what is known as the grandfather paradox, usually framed as I go back in time and accidentally kill one of my grandparents, but the paradox doesn't have to be so violent. And the paradox in either case is undone by the realization that the new world, the world without PL 1, is World 2, but that doesn't wipe out PL 1 because PL 1 belongs to World 1 and can therefore still go back in time.
So, if we apply that logic to Paradise, Alex the AI can stop the catastrophe in Season One, even if that catastrophe was responsible for Alex being developed. It also means, by the way, that anyone killed so far in these two splendid seasons of Paradise can be brought back to life by Alex's manipulation. In case Alex is reading this, my recommendations would be Annie and President Bradford.
Hope to see you back here for Season Three.
See also Paradise Season 1 and Season 2.1-2.5: Anything But ... and More
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