Towards the beginning of the semester I started watching
Heroes, arguably one of the greatest TV shows ever made. Ever.
(According to me, but I think I’m a pretty credible source.)
Around the same time, I was reading Daytripper, a graphic
novel by Gabriel Bà and Fàbio Moon. Daytripper is
about a man named Bràs, and his life. Every chapter
is a different version of his life where, at the end of the chapter, he
dies. Each chapter ends with his obituary, and new chapters begin
with his life had he not died at the end of another chapter. Trippy, right?
So, you’re probably thinking, why is she telling me
this? While I was watching Heroes one
day, there was a scene where Hiro, a character who can time travel, goes back
in time to change his past, and encounters a man, who is also from the future, whom he tells he can't change the past because of something called the Butterfly Effect.
You can view the clip here
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There's an infinite amount of changes happening right now |
But how does that relate to Daytripper?
The
Butterfly Effect is essentially what causes Bràs’ various deaths and rebirths. If one little thing had happened differently
in his life, he could have lived – which is shown in another chapter. Whether the butterfly chooses to flap its wings or not will
generate two alternate outcomes in the future, or in this case, could determine
life or death.
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