Didn't the ending seem a little illogical...

But she hadn't been born, she wouldn't have been able to go back and save him. C'mon now, it's a time travel movie, there are going to be some holes, the greatest of which is NOT Milly going back to save Miyamoto.

The thing is when dealing with time travel I think that everyone who hasn't time traveled is affexted by changes. The person who made the changes is "out of time." I don't know if I'm explaining this accurately. It's like if you go to the past and stop something from happening. And then you return to your own time then you will be the only one who remembers it ever happening. You will be the only one unaffected by the changes you made because you weren't there when time was altered. Even if you did something that made it so you were never born. You'd still exist unlike in Back to the Future when Marty started to fade away at the end.

knuck if you buck

oh I see what you're thinking.

try thinking of it like this. She dissapears on the oil rig and goes back to the future. In the future she looks for what happened to him. Finds out he dies (it feels like a few days for her since the oil rig). Goes back to the past and puts the metal in his coat.

You can tell the future is different since she can find records on him and she has a time travel device. Humanity progressed along a similar path discovering time travel but in the future she is probably the only one who experienced the war as it was in her past but no one else's. exactly what tTurtle was talking about.

Mmmh, let's try this:

A) We see Milly go back in time to save Earth, and then another Milly going back to save Miyamoto, but what if the travel for saving Miyamoto was before the one for the Earth? Milly's military boss orders she to go on a mission for keeping alive a subject who is important for the main mission (as discovered by others explorers always by time machine): they aren't enough sure to fix the problem before the famous dawn so they decide that he has to be alive because they may still need him. So she does her mission, puts the metal sheet with the "Now we are even" message and goes back. But she find herself on the couch and realizes that something will go wrong (in her present). In fact the Tibet base is attacked, the soldier who had to go for the main mission dies and she has to go again.

Maybe this is better:

B) In the new future humans and aliens could contact and have a regular interstellar relationship, the aliens tell them what happened that day and humans decide to thank Miyamoto for his help donating him life again. But in order to don't interfere too much (dangerous!) they can only seek and send the "different timeline Milly", who before the return to her time (after placing the metal sheet) stops and stares at the "original timeline Milly".

The only weak point is that there is still Milly's disappearing, because we agree that she had to stay there, not disappear (cursed the "The time machine" idea!).

Well, I also thought that the ending was somewhat illogical, but one thing that every comment seems to have missed is that the war hadn't been going on for long in her future (the alien weapons were so powerful that humanity wouldn't have survived for long really), and that the girl was born before the war.
We should also assume that the time machine was being constructed before the war, or at least was being planned before the war, since I don't think that's the kind of device you build in a week.
As the death of the alien wasn't a commonly known thing (it all took place on that oil rig) in the war timeline I'd say that the peace timeline and war timelines would have progressed mostly the same up to the war, and thus she wouldn't just cease to exist in the other timeline.

But still, would the army have recruited someone that young if there was NOT a war? How could she help him then?


Well, sorry for my bad english, it isn't my native language, but I hope my point came thru anyway.

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