Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25837097-20150115221005/@comment-24330788-20150116082927

SeanS007 wrote:

GonkhNation wrote: If we're talking details, I would like to add my two cents here (and apologies in advance if it comes out really confusing); If CJ truly was the girl Future Rigby meant to stop Mordecai kissing, why didn't he just say CJ? Past Rigby knew who she was at this point, they've met in Yes Dude Yes. If he didn't remember her name Future Rigby could have said something along the lines of "You know that girl that turned into a storm cloud that one time and blew up the coffee shop? She's going to be at the New Years Eve party, don't let Mordecai kiss her." I think Past Rigby would have recalled if he put it like that.

Also by the end of the episode, Past Rigby was clearly confused about whether he stopped the right kiss. If CJ was the girl Future Rigby was talking about, why wouldn't Future Rigby remember there being two girls (Tracy and CJ) and therefore warn his past self on the confusion he'd have. He should have known his past self had seen Mordecai go out with Tracy, but CJ was the one that he kissed, wouldn't that be an important detail to include?

Furthermore, as far as the audience knows Future Rigby does not appear before Past Rigby again by this point. If Past Rigby's actions had failed to prevent whatever vague incident Future Rigby was referring to, why didn't he appear for the third time to tell him this? He'd been so determined in his goal before, it doesn't make sense that he would leave things as they are if the bad future was still going to happen. Of-course, one could argue that intervening with the past even in the slightest way changes the timeline, therefore that particular Future Rigby doesn't exist anymore, but then Future Rigby shouldn't have been able to appear twice in the episode and have knowledge on his previous encounter with his past self. (Or maybe the writers just wanted to add dramatic tension and didn't think quite so hard on this.) I agree with you. I think that Rigby was so into his selfish perspective and purposes trying to get Margaret out of the picture, which didn't work, that he lost sight that Mordo loves Margaret No offense but I wasn't arguing that Rigby was trying to get Margaret out of the picture at all. He didn't have any hidden agendas, he just wanted to prevent something bad from happening to his friend. For all Past Rigby knew at the time he could have been preventing that kiss so Mordecai can get back with Margaret.