Why didn't Five seem to age when he time traveled forward?
.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0;
}
In the first episode of Umbrella Academy('We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals'),Five comes back from the future using a 'temporal anomaly'.
In the process,it is shown that he is aged backwards,leaving him with the physical appearance that was exactly like when he left the Academy
and traveled forward in time.
However,in the second episode('Run Boy Run'), he does not age forward when he travels through the time towards the future.
If he ages backwards when he travels back to the past, then why doesn't he age forward when he travels forward to the future?
Was there any explanation given to this in the TV show(or in the comic)?
the-umbrella-academy
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
|
show 4 more comments
In the first episode of Umbrella Academy('We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals'),Five comes back from the future using a 'temporal anomaly'.
In the process,it is shown that he is aged backwards,leaving him with the physical appearance that was exactly like when he left the Academy
and traveled forward in time.
However,in the second episode('Run Boy Run'), he does not age forward when he travels through the time towards the future.
If he ages backwards when he travels back to the past, then why doesn't he age forward when he travels forward to the future?
Was there any explanation given to this in the TV show(or in the comic)?
the-umbrella-academy
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
4
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
– Paul
yesterday
When does he time travel forward?
– Acccumulation
yesterday
@Paul Interesting. But how come that answer my question?
– evilMinion
10 hours ago
1
You already mentioned that you're talking about that episode. Looking through the synopsis you linked to, I didn't notice any mention of him going forward in time, but I could have missed it.
– Acccumulation
8 hours ago
1
@evilMinion it doesn't, that's why it's a comment and not an answer.
– Paul
8 hours ago
|
show 4 more comments
In the first episode of Umbrella Academy('We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals'),Five comes back from the future using a 'temporal anomaly'.
In the process,it is shown that he is aged backwards,leaving him with the physical appearance that was exactly like when he left the Academy
and traveled forward in time.
However,in the second episode('Run Boy Run'), he does not age forward when he travels through the time towards the future.
If he ages backwards when he travels back to the past, then why doesn't he age forward when he travels forward to the future?
Was there any explanation given to this in the TV show(or in the comic)?
the-umbrella-academy
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
In the first episode of Umbrella Academy('We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals'),Five comes back from the future using a 'temporal anomaly'.
In the process,it is shown that he is aged backwards,leaving him with the physical appearance that was exactly like when he left the Academy
and traveled forward in time.
However,in the second episode('Run Boy Run'), he does not age forward when he travels through the time towards the future.
If he ages backwards when he travels back to the past, then why doesn't he age forward when he travels forward to the future?
Was there any explanation given to this in the TV show(or in the comic)?
the-umbrella-academy
the-umbrella-academy
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
asked yesterday
evilMinionevilMinion
358127
358127
4
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
– Paul
yesterday
When does he time travel forward?
– Acccumulation
yesterday
@Paul Interesting. But how come that answer my question?
– evilMinion
10 hours ago
1
You already mentioned that you're talking about that episode. Looking through the synopsis you linked to, I didn't notice any mention of him going forward in time, but I could have missed it.
– Acccumulation
8 hours ago
1
@evilMinion it doesn't, that's why it's a comment and not an answer.
– Paul
8 hours ago
|
show 4 more comments
4
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
– Paul
yesterday
When does he time travel forward?
– Acccumulation
yesterday
@Paul Interesting. But how come that answer my question?
– evilMinion
10 hours ago
1
You already mentioned that you're talking about that episode. Looking through the synopsis you linked to, I didn't notice any mention of him going forward in time, but I could have missed it.
– Acccumulation
8 hours ago
1
@evilMinion it doesn't, that's why it's a comment and not an answer.
– Paul
8 hours ago
4
4
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
– Paul
yesterday
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
– Paul
yesterday
When does he time travel forward?
– Acccumulation
yesterday
When does he time travel forward?
– Acccumulation
yesterday
@Paul Interesting. But how come that answer my question?
– evilMinion
10 hours ago
@Paul Interesting. But how come that answer my question?
– evilMinion
10 hours ago
1
1
You already mentioned that you're talking about that episode. Looking through the synopsis you linked to, I didn't notice any mention of him going forward in time, but I could have missed it.
– Acccumulation
8 hours ago
You already mentioned that you're talking about that episode. Looking through the synopsis you linked to, I didn't notice any mention of him going forward in time, but I could have missed it.
– Acccumulation
8 hours ago
1
1
@evilMinion it doesn't, that's why it's a comment and not an answer.
– Paul
8 hours ago
@evilMinion it doesn't, that's why it's a comment and not an answer.
– Paul
8 hours ago
|
show 4 more comments
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
I believe the explanation in the show for him being de-aged on his first arrival in "The Present" was that he had made a mistake in his calculations that resulted in his body being altered. All the time traveling after that, for the most part, was seemingly done "correctly" (he doesn't comment on making more mistakes and doesn't seem to be physically altered) so there was no further impact on him.
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
2
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
3
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
2
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
1
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "186"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f208794%2fwhy-didnt-five-seem-to-age-when-he-time-traveled-forward%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
I believe the explanation in the show for him being de-aged on his first arrival in "The Present" was that he had made a mistake in his calculations that resulted in his body being altered. All the time traveling after that, for the most part, was seemingly done "correctly" (he doesn't comment on making more mistakes and doesn't seem to be physically altered) so there was no further impact on him.
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
2
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
3
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
2
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
1
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
I believe the explanation in the show for him being de-aged on his first arrival in "The Present" was that he had made a mistake in his calculations that resulted in his body being altered. All the time traveling after that, for the most part, was seemingly done "correctly" (he doesn't comment on making more mistakes and doesn't seem to be physically altered) so there was no further impact on him.
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
2
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
3
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
2
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
1
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
I believe the explanation in the show for him being de-aged on his first arrival in "The Present" was that he had made a mistake in his calculations that resulted in his body being altered. All the time traveling after that, for the most part, was seemingly done "correctly" (he doesn't comment on making more mistakes and doesn't seem to be physically altered) so there was no further impact on him.
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
I believe the explanation in the show for him being de-aged on his first arrival in "The Present" was that he had made a mistake in his calculations that resulted in his body being altered. All the time traveling after that, for the most part, was seemingly done "correctly" (he doesn't comment on making more mistakes and doesn't seem to be physically altered) so there was no further impact on him.
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
answered yesterday
just_happen_to_knowjust_happen_to_know
667312
667312
2
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
3
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
2
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
1
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
2
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
3
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
2
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
1
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
2
2
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
I thought that there was something in the show about him trying to get back to his youth, and the de-aging was supposed to riff off the double meaning. But looking over the show again I can't see any evidence to back this up apart from the miscalculation statement.
– Jontia
yesterday
3
3
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
There is the conversation where he's commended for body swapping as a way to throw off pursuit, but he says it was an accident and he can't take credit for it. We also see many time travellers that do not suffer de-aging.
– just_happen_to_know
yesterday
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
So you are saying that in episode 2 when he traveled forward in time, he was never meant to age forward at all?
– evilMinion
9 hours ago
2
2
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
From context it seems like the time travelers organization is aware of the phenomenon of aging/de-aging but it's not something they generally worry about (see how surprised Cha-cha and Hazel were) because it's basically a safety hazard that they've successfully circumvented. So no one ever intends to alter their age when time traveling. Possibly because Five uses an innate ability instead of a suitcase, he runs greater risk of dangers like age-alteration.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
1
1
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
Further more when the time travelers offer to reverse Five's condition they don't opt to do it by more time traveling (nor does Five try that himself) but by building him an entirely new body. It seems to imply that aging by time travel is both dangerous and difficult to do intentionally.
– just_happen_to_know
9 hours ago
|
show 1 more comment
Thanks for contributing an answer to Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f208794%2fwhy-didnt-five-seem-to-age-when-he-time-traveled-forward%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
4
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff."
– Paul
yesterday
When does he time travel forward?
– Acccumulation
yesterday
@Paul Interesting. But how come that answer my question?
– evilMinion
10 hours ago
1
You already mentioned that you're talking about that episode. Looking through the synopsis you linked to, I didn't notice any mention of him going forward in time, but I could have missed it.
– Acccumulation
8 hours ago
1
@evilMinion it doesn't, that's why it's a comment and not an answer.
– Paul
8 hours ago