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Major plothole

posted 6 years ago by HAL 9010 (906)
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I hate posts that start with that tagline: Major Plothole - 9 out of 10 times, it not even a plot hole. I think though, I have found a pretty large discrepancy with logic:

We are told that killing the last "Gabe", will make the remaining survivor a god - or the collapse of reality.

No wonder, this is a priority. So we hunt them down and in the end, we have both of them. yoo-hoo.

One we send to a prison planet, where his chances of surviving are slim. It is pretty much a death sentence.

And the other we send to a planet to find his own destiny - in fact, the authorities planned to send him back to an almost guaranteed death penalty, had Funch not gambled.

So, the two people whose deaths could destroy us all, we send off the places where we cannot protect them. And to places that are pretty much aimed at killing them.... in other words, the one thing the whole movie was trying to avoid.

... now I get the title ;)

[–] peter_t_2k3 (1050) 2 years ago

I know this is old and I've not seen the film in years but I presume the issue is not with them dying but with them being killed from their other version but I dunno. I mean they would die naturally at some point

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 2 years ago

That would solve it, but there is a line (as I recall) where they say the good One must be kept safe and alive, not to grant the evil One the ultimate power... besides if it was a risk for the whole universe, then killing the good One would lay that risk the rest...