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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8859046" data-attributes="member: 7023840">[SPOILER]Except she wasn't responding to Kevin's lie ... she was responding to his truth. The lie (if it was a lie) wasn't for Kevin - it was for Nora (and, by extension, for the viewers).Start with the viewers. What actually happened in the show? Where did Kevin go in those alternate world episodes? I'm not saying that there's an answer, but what I am saying is that the choices you make when choosing to answer it matter! Look at the approach you are taking with this ... you are saying that she is lying ... because her story doesn't make sense to you. In a world where 2% of the population vanished without a clue? You see the ouroboros here, right? The show presented an explanation for rational viewers of "what it all meant," that rational viewers would reject. On the other hand, the show presented a rational explanation that was faith-based for people that rejected the rational reading of the show! Put another way- if you think she's lying (a rational response), you keep the mystery of the show. But if you accept her truth, you deny the mystery. What a conundrum! But looking even more deeply at Nora, her character arc was entirely defined both by her belief that there was an answer to what happened to her family, and the issue of whether she would pursue that into the chamber ... and what happened at that last moment. In the end, is all that other stuff (supernatural, magical realism) real, or is it just the extraneous detritus to distract us from the yawning abyss that is reality? Kevin and Nora don't care, because at least, at long last, they can believe in each other. Maybe that's all you can do?[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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