Well, I'd substitute misguided for realist.
If you are suggesting that the writers sat down and discuseed how they should prepare the world for an event two years later, because such an event had suddenly all simultaneously come to them and they felt the need to talk about it, would find that hard to beleive.
If God had come to them all in their dreams and suggested they subconsciously but references in their work to prepare people, then I could believe that a little more.
But I am 99% certain that should you put any of the writers, producers, directors, actors etc under hypnosis and a lie machine, none of th em would have any idea what all these 9/11 foreknowledge conspiracies were all about.
That harsh realm episode has the idea of NYV partly destroyed by an atom bomb.
NYC, because it is one of the most well known US cities, along with maybe Los Angeles and Chicago.
An atom bomb, because that helped explain the devastation that would help sugges the idea of a wartown, apolalyptic alternate universe.
It was called ground zero, because that's what the site of any major, concentrated catastrophe is called.
I can't yet understand what this has to do with 9/11.
All fastasy films and TV shows suggest wild, out there ideas to stay original and different. For disaster scenarios, they have a limited pool of things, terrorism, natural disasters, atom bombs, and a limited set of well known locations, with an even more limited set of landmarks.
If I was writing a story ten years ago about destroying physical symbols of the US, without a doubt, I would have chosen the WTC, or statue of liberty, or the white house, because that's what every US hating psychopath would want to do. If you would want to kill lots of people, you'd pick, unfortunately, the WTC, as it combines the two.
This is all very depressing, has nothing to do with foreknowledge, and everything to do with having a limited about of "bad future" scenarios (WW3, killer robots, aliens, no resources left etc).
I can understand the need, without faith, to find something to pin the sorry state of affairs on.
I would say, though, that there are many very stinky things about 9/11, Pentagon etc, but I don't believe that included reading predictions into every TV show or film that ever had a terrorist or apocolyptic plot in it.
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