I was struggling for a title for this installment of the Blogless Lepolt, and I am not particularly happy with the one I chose, but it works. I am announcing another Examiner article on Temporal Anomalies released earlier today, Butterfly Effect part 13: grandfather paradox. It considers the possibility that Evan Treborn might have intended to kill himself when he went back for the knife and again when he lit the explosive in Kayleigh’s basement, and what the implications of that would be.
In other news, the M. J. Young Net web site is officially clean and restored. I still have work to do there, and I am told that work is proceeding on the all-new Valdron/Multiverser web site, but I haven’t seen anything and have not been privy to more than a few hints and a lot of questions.
–M. J. Young
January 18th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
MJ, did you ever see the alternate ending to that movie? That’s all I’m going to say about it in public, to avoid spoilers.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I don’t believe in director’s cuts–there are good reasons why footage winds up on the cutting room floor, and not all of them are time. I am told that in that version Evan ultimately kills himself; I am also given to understand that he does not do so until after he undoes the journals, and thus after he kills Kayleigh, so the question of whether he was trying to kill himself with the knife or the blockbuster still remains, somewhat altered.
–M. J. Young