The Deja Vu Edition

We've all had it...that sense of Deja Vu...the feeling that you've been somewhere, met someone, done something before when you know that you haven't. In the season finale of Fringe, they gave a rather clever explanation for the phenomenon--that you have, in a sense, been there done that...only it's a different version of you in an alternate reality that you're picking up on. This is much better than The Matrix explanation (a glitch in the system) that is demonstrated when Neo sees a cat that looks exactly like one he just saw walking in the front of the same door. Since he just saw it how can he have the feeling that it hadn't happened before? The more I watch Fringe the more I like it. Yes, it does have a familiar X-files sort of feel to with the whole FBI exploring unknown phenomenon, but it definitely has more of an edge to it than it's predecessor.

I put the notion of alternate realities into the possible, but not probable category. As for going into an alternate reality, like time travel, probably not a good idea...isn't it enough that we mess up our own reality without screwing up someone else's? On Fringe, Walter really messed with someone else's reality. In his reality, his son, Peter, died so he crossed into an alternate reality and stole an alternate version of him. Tell me that isn't going to have some nasty consequences somewhere down the road.

It's an interesting theory that there are an infinite number of realities out there that are created by ever choice we make or don't make--every conceivable outcome to every conceivable decision that every person who ever lived has made. If on Monday you choose to go to work, there's a reality out there where you chose to call in sick. Maybe that means somewhere out there is a reality where I won the lottery....I wonder if it's a crime to rob a version of you living in a different reality?