When Tom isnt around (Contradictions on ending)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Nowhere Man
NeverAgain85 — 14 years ago(April 21, 2011 05:28 PM)
First off, the ending of the series was that Tom is a government experiment and it was all about testing the limits of his beliefs, correct? and it was never about the negatives, so were to assume that everyone he has met throughout the show were all acting somewhat all for his benefit?
yet throughout the series there has been moments when Tom isnt on screen, and other characters are still going through their "acting"
why would they keep "acting", even when Tom isnt around to see it
eg: in the episode "Stay Tuned", theres a scene where Jim Hubbard the Governer guy exits a limo before confronting Tom, with another guy smoking a cigar telling him not to forget the negatives.why would he say this if Tom wasnt even there to hear it?
there are loads others. but i think you know what i mean, but are we to assume that they say all these things incase Tom is around, hiding maybe??
there are loads of other contradictions aswell like this,anxious for some replies on this -
UltimaGabe — 14 years ago(April 28, 2011 10:41 PM)
Well, the important thing to remember is that not everyone is in on it, and even the people that are in on it aren't necessarily in on the same thing. The whole conspiracy is a huge, multi-layered thing with tons of different groups all working on separate projects, that Tom is sort of caught in the middle of. (And nothing in the whole series is very cut-and-dried- so you can never really be sure exactly who's in on what.) Also, while a lot of the people are lying to Tom, it's not like they have a specific script to stick to. For example, the negatives aren't the crux of the conspiracy (like Tom thinks they are for the majority of the show), but the fact that they're there is a big deal. And like I said, not everyone is in on everything- so while the core people of "Them" know that the negatives aren't actually what they're looking for, the majority of the people working for "Them" don't know that. So when the people are talking about the negatives behind Tom's back, it's because they think the negatives are important.
Does that make sense? This isn't like the Truman Show, where everyone is acting out a script around Tom. There's a massive, multi-layered government conspiracy, and Tom is caught in the middle of it. -
mikko-sandt — 14 years ago(January 13, 2012 01:07 PM)
I haven't watched the show in three years or so but as far as I remember, Tom did have negatives the conspirators wanted, namely the negatives showing the senators getting hanged - only the jungle photo was staged. The conspirators probably didn't know where these negatives were (and neither did Tom until the very last episode) and as such they had to keep him alive until they could be sure that no one else had the negatives.
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movieman82us — 12 years ago(July 28, 2013 12:35 AM)
One of the biggest contradictions was the episode with Veil's father. And how that episode definitely indicated that he IS Thomas Veil, that Dean Jones's character really was his father and that he was not a part of the conspiracy.