MacLaren was murdered in 9/11. His body goes to the World Trade Center to send the message and dies in 9/11. MacLaren, both Traveler and the fragments of the original MacLaren, spare Kat losing two babies and becoming a relatively young widow. This is supposed to be the noble and tragic self-sacrifice. Since Traveler-MacLaren loves Kat because he incorporates the original MacLaren's love for her (that is why he dumps Carly, after all,) Kat's repudiation of MacLaren is a repudiation of the original MacLaren too, which is a tragic irony.
(By the way, time changes everyone and no husband or wife is the person the spouse married.)
Philip, Trevor, Carly and Grace Day all die on their appointed days. Everyone in the future is supposed to die rather than tamper with the past/change the future, because. That is 0001's program. Resenting the idea that someone trying to save humanity could be portrayed as benevolent when they are actually rapists is offended prudery. Philip made the alleged point about the travelers doing bad things far more effectively. It seems like perverse moral values to worry so much more about sexual impurity than letting a man die. Traveler-MacLaren went off mission to save Kat's life at the expense of his own but all that matters is being MacLaren's body but not his entire memory?
Onne of the core ideas of this show was that the body is an inextricable part of the whole person. That there is no program that can be injected into it and change someone into a different person (no matter what Kat thinks.) That's why Philip stays an addict. It's why the show expects us to simply accept that Carly renounced her entire previous life to become Jeffrey's mother. (I think that needed a little more to be convincing, but female characters tend to be underwritten.)
(By the way, time changes everyone and no husband or wife is the person the spouse married.)
Philip, Trevor, Carly and Grace Day all die on their appointed days. Everyone in the future is supposed to die rather than tamper with the past/change the future, because. That is 0001's program. Resenting the idea that someone trying to save humanity could be portrayed as benevolent when they are actually rapists is offended prudery. Philip made the alleged point about the travelers doing bad things far more effectively. It seems like perverse moral values to worry so much more about sexual impurity than letting a man die. Traveler-MacLaren went off mission to save Kat's life at the expense of his own but all that matters is being MacLaren's body but not his entire memory?
Onne of the core ideas of this show was that the body is an inextricable part of the whole person. That there is no program that can be injected into it and change someone into a different person (no matter what Kat thinks.) That's why Philip stays an addict. It's why the show expects us to simply accept that Carly renounced her entire previous life to become Jeffrey's mother. (I think that needed a little more to be convincing, but female characters tend to be underwritten.)
