Talk:Portal:Episode Guides

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I'm not 100%, but I believe the following statement from the Season 1 summary is innacurate - 'Tom's involvement is personal: his nephew Shawn Farrell was one of the 4400 people abducted - and, if not for Shawn, his son, Kyle Baldwin would have been abducted instead. '

In the final episode of season 1 the 'future people' tell Tom that Kyle was being prepared as a communication conduit and Shawn interrupted this process. The scene where Shawn is taken shows that Kyle was being grabbed by tentacles of light, Shawn pushes him out of the way and is taken.

While this is only my interpretation I infer the following- Since the people in the future intended Kyle be used in our present, he was NOT being taken. Shawn interrupted whatever process was altering Kyle, whether or not Shawn would have been taken anyway is a good question. Perhaps he was taken because the future knew what would happen to Kyle(having been only partially altered) and Shawn was given his abilities to heal Kyle. Kyle couldn't have shot Jordan Collier if not for Shawn.

This is my first time here and second time on any wiki page, sorry if went long.

No, that is very good. This exchange of ideas is exactly what this wiki is for. You should add that to the article. I would, but it's been a while since I've seen season one so I'm having trouble remembers the details you are referring to here. --Mateo 22:07, 13 July 2006 (EDT)

Are you sure both couldn't happen? I mean, couldn't it be possible he was going to be both the healer and the spokesman for them? Just with Shawn's interference they only got part of the spokesman bit done.

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It's a small thing, but would anyone object to just adding a little tidbit here or there in the episode summeries or something? The only thing I could think of right now is say, were the title of the episode is derived from, but you'd think a show like this would have it's little facts and nods to different media in there. Just a thought... --Kaito1412 00:15, 7 October 2006 (EDT)

sounds fine with me --KickCity903 01:03, 7 October 2006 (EDT)

Tom's involvement may not be personal (as he was already an NTAC agent). Tom's return to NTAC could be personal, due to Shawn. I don't think Tom would have returned to NTAC if not for the potential information that Shawn could give him regarding what happened at Highland Beach initially. You also have to figure Dennis Ryland got involved because he tells Diana in the pilot episode that Tom is his best lead investigator to Diana being the best field agent. Can we know if Tom would have returned otherwise? We get into a game of what-ifs . . . --Caroline 10:35, 7 October 2006 (EDT)