In the (pretty amazing) new episode Neither Here Nor There the Observers were featured quite prominently. Was this the most we’ve seen of them since August? I think so. And after the events of the episode I am more or less certain that the Obsevers are higher entities controlling the universe. They toy with us, control us, they give our walk along the path of life a clear destination. They give us a destiny that somehow soothes them, makes them happy, is according to their plans. But it appears that September is becoming a rebel. Where the older Observer sees us as pawns, or numbers that are to be put in the right accounting column, September has developed a connection between his complex interstellar emotions and our petty, microscopic affairs. The Observers are infinite, like lines across the endless void of space. When we see them meeting in restaurants and diners, it might not even be on Earth. It might just be a construct created for our easier comprehension of their conduct. Even September’s device was just for the benefit of those around him. Can a man who travels across time not do whatever he wants without briefcases full of questionable electronics? Of course he can. He is the most powerful entity imaginable. But he goes into gadget shops and puts a more earthly spin on his abstract task because he wants to mingle with his subjects, look closely into their eyes and speak such incomprehensible things as the concept of erasing someone from time. And ultimately he does not have the heart to do it. Our world with Peter is his creation. Like a painting that he was asked to splash with Peter-less paint, he cannot destroy his masterpiece. He let the Peter world restore itself, lets us continue the lives we lived outside of the galactic plan.
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Very nicely said. 🙂 I hadn’t really thought of The Observers meeting place as not being “real”, but the concept makes sense the way you have explained it. I liked the sign in the parts shop that said, “Pick A Part”. Was that a not so subtle invitation to the viewers to “dissect” what we are seeing in order to tease out clues the writers are leaving for us to find?
I wonder if they are more like the “Adjustment Bureau” but they caused some issue deep in the past that they have been trying to fix ever since…. something more crucial than just walter ripping the universe up… as if they are visitors who are on an extended stay due to their accidental interference long ago…..
Perhaps not even visitors, but exiles. Perhaps they must stay until they fix the issue they caused.
Good to hear from Geiger again. I’m still reluctant to give the Observers any celestial or higher powers. I’m thinking they are a product of man much like Frankenstein was a product of his creator. They may have been an experiment gone awry but developed and evolved into the beings we know today. I have a feeling we’ll know soon enough.
I am reluctant to accept this theory considering how amazingly powerful the Observers are. They can pull people out of the past and make them appear in the future. They can catch a bullet. They are either immortal or very accomplished time travelers (remember the episode where we are show pictures of September during various historical events). If they are a product of anyone, this being must certainly be a higher entity. One might call him a god, as I have implied in the title of my blog post, or one my call him something else.
But consider this artwork:
http://www.danluvisiart.com/artworks/2011/FULL/lms___hex___by_adonihs-d2yi62d.jpg
In my mind this is what the Observers might look like in another dimension. They take on the form of men in our world but they are hardly men or man made. That is my belief, anyway.