#i am going to blow up to smithereens. AHHHH!!!!!!

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okay, my theory:

estevez, zimmerfield and ken are the anomalies

the universe didnt account that missing persons would be so invested in the case. because while lydia spring is important, shes not actually fundamental to stopping the men of the machine and destroying the 3:1 machine. dirk had to set off the time loop and stop the MOM. he didnt have to save lydia. 

so because estevez and zimm got so involved, they needed someone around to be able to fix the machine, since estevez would shoot it.

enter ken.

i think, in the universes ideal plan, missing persons would not have gotten as involved as they did, and therefore zimm wouldnt have died and estevez would have never drunkenly shot the machine.

and by the same note, i think bart was originally meant to kill red and ken in the desert. red because he was MOM, and ken because he knew about the machine and could feasibly replicate it.

but now obviously kens still around and the universe has not accounted for this, and its throwing the plan off-course. 

at least for bart, ken alive = obsession to find ken = willingness to disobey the universe = sparing suzie boreton

ken dead + no friendship with ken = compliant murder puppet 

tl;dr: 

1) everything is estevez and zimm’s fault

 2) ken being alive is fucking shit up