thick skin and an elastic heart

It’s canon, really: when an Observer is exposed to a truly, truly strong emotion, they will feel it themselves.

For August, it was bravery. He saw how brave Christine was on the day her parents died, and several years in the future did something brave himself: he saved her from death, despite the cosmic consequences.

We all know September’s. He witnessed how much Walter loved his son, even if it wasn’t really even his son, and that struck a cord in him. Not even really knowing why yet, September knew he had to protect his progeny - his son, his child -  and hid him in the past.

Filmography 2013

I know it’s trendy to fight the system and cry that we are all becoming slaves of technology, but this attitude overlooks that computers and phones are tools for communicating. When someone thinks I’m an idiot smiling at a machine, I’m actually smiling at my girlfriend who is 10000 miles away and whom I would have never met if not for these newfangled electronics. As they say: when the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.