User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 207 "Depths" discussion/@comment-3003805-20120612194633/@comment-5001598-20120612232211

I am confused with your logic.what do you mean by neutron should have felt the effects of everything.

Remember right now we are working on a confusing timeline riddled with paradoxes. But from what I have seen from that episode I can only interpret that things only change in the future as they happend. Strictly speaking Neutron shouldn't remember a lot of things because they never happend yet they did. My only explination for that would be that he was part of the time traveling process by helping to build the timemachiene thus being at the eye of the storm and having memories of both timelines and noticing changes as Bart causes them to happen. So the Changes that neutron sees only happen when Bart gets to the point where he affects them whether directly or not.

To quote one of my favourite shows Doctor Who (which is all about time travel) people assume that time is a linear progression of cause and effect but in actuallity from a non-subjective third person point of view it is more like a big ball of Timey whimy stuff. now the reason that bart went back in time was to fix the future. So he worked with neutron to build a time machiene to help hime do that. They were under the assumption that neutron was the cause of the distroyed future. We can assume this because when neutron was cured in the present his future self turned into a normal civilian. He said something like i cant believe it he actually did it. but then he looked around and saw that the world was still in ruin and he said No, No it should have all been fixed. meaning that neutron and impusle thought that by curing neutron everything would have been fixed.

Time Travel causing headaches since... ever