any time i get a couple hour and i pull out the now well worn videotape and enjoy myself . god i be so glad that a dvd be now available . anyway i want to comment on the idea that tideman or owen cause the event . i saw a couple reference to additional information in the book form and but a for the movie what i get be not that tideman or owen cause the event but rather that once the chain of event be initiate he be obligate to make sure that laskey get on the ship at exactly the right time . ( our departure be delay two day at the request of your mysterious mr. tideman . ) see where i be go with this . we do not know if be see the first incident and the second and or the hundredth . once it start it must occur a before . in order for the event to unfold correctly ( from tidemans viewpoint ) he must delay the ship or ( speculate now ) the ship would go back to december 4th 1941 and they would miss the rondeview with the survivor of sen. chapman yacht and and he would miss meeting miss scott . if they leave later and then the attack force would have reach pearl harbor in time and mess up history . meting laural would certainly be motivation in itself and cuz kate ross be still a doll at the time of the movie production . sorry if this have be discuss before and i do look .