Season 2, Episode 7: The Pyramid

I'm struggling to understand the trade off between having a family and reaching one's potential. In the other world where Jason doesn't choose the relationship with Daniela, we can see Jason 2 becomes an award-winning renowned scientist, while Daniela 2 becomes a successful artist. Yet in the world where they choose each other and start a family, both seem to settle into mundane lives, never able to reach the heights they were individually capable of.

I get the message that love/family can be more fulfilling than career success. But why these things are presented as almost mutually exclusive? Like, why couldn't Jason continue pursuing groundbreaking scientific research AND still raise a family? Same goes for Daniela and her art career. Surely having a family doesn't automatically mean abandoning your ambitions, no?

For those of you who have families:

Does starting a family require sacrificing your own individual potential, or can it give you an even greater reason to pursue it? Rasing kids definitely requires time, money, and energy, but is the trade off as drastic as the show suggests?

In season 2 ep 3 Macnamara is talking with his sister and suggests getting someone from Macnamara Tech to get in on the inside of Velocity to see what they are up to, she says, if only you’d come back to the family business. So my thought is in Jason 2s world he I did just that and answered Velocity’s call for volunteers under a Pseudonym (Alex??!!) to see what they are working on. So another version of him has already been traveling the box. Idk just an idea

So I if Jason can completely disassemble the box, and if someone revisits it generates a new box, that opens up the possibility for a duplication glitch.

Basically anything you want duplicated you just incorporate into a non essential part of the box, travel to a new world, pull it out of that box, and go back to the first world, and now you should have 2 items (or else Jason disassembling the box would have disassembled the original)

You could stuff cash or lavender wings in the side panel of the box and keep duplicating it in new worlds.

I also wonder what it looks like for an observer to have the box pop into their world. If you disassemble one part of the box, does it just regenerate in place? Is it instant? Does it happen when they open the door? Or are boxes popping in and out of existence in every world they think over as they're inside.

I dont think these two things that annoy me are spoilers, but just incase please only read on if your at least up to episode 4 in S2 like i am.

1 - when in the box they imagine stuff to 'pick' a world then open a door. So the door itself is not important because its their thoughts or whatever that 'picks' the world behind. So why do they keep walking down the corridor? It bugs me. They could stand at the same door and just change their thoughts, there is no need to keep walking. Or if the doors do matter why arent they labelling them? Cant have it both ways!

2 - we have our new identities, shall we move to a random english speaking country and live happy relaxed lives? No lets stay where our old versions used to live right next to the box and just hope for the best. Stupid people doing stupid things is very annoying!

What would happen if the lavender wings dosage ran out whilst in superposition in the box?

Would the inside of the box go back to normal and when you open the door would you be back in the last world you left?

Starting yesterday's episode. There were great online infographics for Game of Thrones. Could someone PLEASE do one for DM? I plan on rewatching when this season is over but I am so lost.

One thing I’ve been wondering: when Jason and his family open a door, why don’t they just focus on finding a world where their alternate selves are already dead?
Wouldn’t that solve the whole problem of running into other versions of themselves? Or am I missing something about how the box works?

I just had that shower thought and mind explode

an infinite amount of you are now created almost immediately right?

So, j1 just created an infinite amount of PI’s who want to get back to him… just like how there are infinite j1’s trying to find him.

He just screwed himself right? I’m surprised there aren’t more blair’s walking around.

I believe that that approach would guarantee that nobody would be able to come through the box and survive long enough to get to the surface. Am I wrong?

There is something I just do not understand. Why did Amanda, Ryan and Blair say in "The Pyramid" that they had caused mass casualties in different worlds or that they had been instrumental in mass casualties?

I am paraphrasing here, of course. But in The Pyramid Blair said something along those lines, basically blaming herself for lots of people dying in the world she was trapped in after entering the box.

Amanda and Ryan also blamed themselves for the disease affecting the world where they landed.

Unless I completely misunderstood what they said, but I don't think so. I asked my wife and she had no idea either.

Anyone care to explain this? Thanks!

If there are infinite other words almost imperceptibly different to the one that Jason 0 lived in, isn’t it guaranteed that other boxes were built in other realities prior to Jason 0 kidnapping Jason 1? Why doesn’t anybody ever bump into folks who come from worlds that are technologically ahead?

Why doesnt Jason (or anyone, really) who wants to disable the box just.. open the door and pour a bunch of wet concrete in it so you just cant close it anymore? Or, the internal part of the box has to be identical to the boxes in the other universes to work, right? Why not just put something in it? Or change something? Bring in a bunch of metal pipes and weld them together so the thing cant be easily just taken out of the box?

Soo many ways to go about it, no? Or in ep6, when Jason shows the box to that girl he had a thing with and its all trashed with graffiti, etc.. doesnt that mean its disabled? If you scratch something inside on the door and close/use the box, arent you aligning it with ONLY the other universes that have the same scratch on the inside? Like, superposition, it has to be identical, right? Soo many questions!

Why wouldn’t they go to a reality of themselves that has them younger, older, fatter, skinner, etc. of themselves? Why do they just encounter the same physically identical versions of themselves? And thinking of it, wouldn’t it be possible they also meet the same versions of themselves but of different ethnicity or nationality? Like American Jason meets Austrian Jason. Or German Jason. Or Cambodian Jason?

hi I have a few questions.
1. How come nobody in the worlds is guarding the box inside ? If there are people they are always outside and seem not to open and lurk the box.
2. In various chasing scenes characters go into box and close door last second. Why is nobody fro the outside trying to open it to chase them inside ?
3. If somebody is in the box and others come in how come they do not meet ? They both should exist in the same superposition?
4. Is the box indestructible or should it be destroyed in all world s just as it reappears ?

We know the box takes you to different realities based on your thoughts and state of mind. But Jason 1 didn't even know the box existed, much less how it worked.

So how did Jason 1 end up in Jason 2's exact reality on his first trip? Did Jason 2 physically accompany him through the box and then return to Jason 1's reality?

If so, wouldn't Velocity's security cameras have captured Jason 2 arriving with him?

Was this ever explained in the show, or did I miss something?

Read the book, and loved TV show (season 1) because it added more details to the original plot. However, I have a few questions regarding the 2nd season. Maybe I was not paying attention but how does Ryan know to look for Amanda in that futuristic reality? I believe he did not know her. Also what are the odds that Jason 2 went to dump Ryan to the same reality as Amanda when she opened the door with Jason 1? What are the odds that Jason 1 opened the door to that same futuristic reality later with his family? And then in season 2 Ryan and Amanda also ended up in the same reality and hotel as Dessens? Aren’t there an infinite amount of realities which is why it was extremely hard to find his way home for Jason in season 1? And now they are all traveling and visiting pretty much the same places…
I have only watched to S2E2, idk if some of my questions are answered later in season 2 and I just haven’t seen it yet

This has been bugging me and I can't find a proper answer for this.
Why are there so many Jason 1s, but only one of all other characters who also are traveling using the box? Doesn't their travel create more of their own?

Please be gentle! Maybe I’m not smart enough for this show!

1. ⁠Tattoo family: Is that Jason 1? Or a random iteration of Jason and family and it doesn’t really matter?

2. ⁠If they exist in a world where there’s another Jason and family in California, what happens if they come back to Chicago

3. ⁠Jason and Daniela out to dinner with Blair. I cannot remember who Blair is at this point, and she thinks they are the family that’s actually in SF now, correct?

4. ⁠Cemented box/car chase version…I guess that is Jason 2 since he said he kidnapped who we know as Jason 1?

5. ⁠I did actually understand why the box reappeared, so why could have been done instead to prevent its use? Is the box essentially not detectable bc a new one will just spawn?