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Why didn't Jason know his own future?

posted 9 years ago by theoctobercountry
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Throughout the series, Jason is somewhat taken aback when he meets people whose names he is familiar with (like Medusa and Oedipus, for example), because he knows their stories and how their lives will turn out. So, it's a given that he (being from the future) has knowledge of classical mythology. Add to that the fact that he is told time after time that characters in Atlantis can't escape their destiny.

Given all this, why doesn't he remember his own story from mythology, and the really horrible way his life turns out? The Jason story is pretty famous, after all! Maybe the thought is too depressing, and he's hoping it was about another "Jason"? Heh, heh... I guess that it was too much to face; the latter part of his life was a complete disaster, very tragic---who wants to admit that things are fated to turn out so very badly?

[–] nightc1 9 years ago

I think this is a time travel question. The future Jason came from didn't have the history of Jason until after he went into the past. So he would create an alternate time line which would then include the future with the story of Jason and the Argonauts and the tales from the greek gods and stuff. So it's entirely possible he would have no knowledge of his own future.

Sort of like in Back to the Future, Marty changes the past so when he gets back home to his present day he has no idea that he has that truck in the garage and complains about the car being crashed.

But lets table the alternate time line theory, it's entirely possible he never studied greek mythology and had no knowledge of Jason and the Argonauts. I'm not sure I knew anything about Jason before the tv show, I'm sure many people don't know who he was because they just never studied it.

[–] Hippolytos70 9 years ago

The time travel issue is totally irrelevant. Just a trick of the first few minutes of the episode 1 in order to introduce us to the story and the persons. The story isn't sci fi about time travels. The time travelled thing could be omitted completely, and the show wouldn't lose something. It's good just as it is.

[–] 2sweetkids 9 years ago

But it's not completely irrelevant - it happened. I've always wondered why they completely ignored that part of the story. IMHO, they shouldn't have had it in the first place if they were never going to mention it again.

[–] AgentX2014 9 years ago

Seems like he has some knowledge of mythology, which puts to question the whole Argonaut issue. There were many less popularly known myths he recognized (Oedipus), though he obviously didn't know much about it, since Jocasta(sp?) name and the story about killing his father who is king gave it away to me and that was one of the later myths I learned (Herc legendary journeys of all places). But he didn't know who Daedelus was, or Atalanta, or Ariadne. He even had to have the Furies explained.