So I still don't get how the astronaut is an older alternate version of Walter. It seems so random. They should've had the astronaut be someone else.
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Since he wished his little brother would dissapear, he wasn't able to finish the game and was "stuck in space" waiting to be rescued! Just saying.
shareAs far as I can figure, the Astronaut was an alternate version of Walter from an alternate timeline. The game is basically magical, so I do see why it couldn't combine timelines in such a way. I'd also say that the alternate timeline was some number of years ahead, or Walter and Danny were simply born earlier in that timeline.
Hope it makes sense to you.
I guess that makes sense. But it does seem pretty random. Imagine if me and Arnold Schwarzenegger played the game Zathura and an alternate version of Arnold Schwarzenegger came out of the game.
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The Astronaut says that he was trapped in space because he wished the his brother had never been born, making it so that he could never finish the game. However, since his brother was the one who found the game and convinced him to play it, had his brother never been born he would never have played the game and thus would have been back on Earth.
shareThe Astronaut says that he was trapped in space because he wished the his brother had never been born, making it so that he could never finish the game. However, since his brother was the one who found the game and convinced him to play it, had his brother never been born he would never have played the game and thus would have been back on Earth.But if Walter never played the game then he could never have made the wish to undo his little brother's birth, and hence Danny would just be born, find the game, play it with Walter, allow Walter to make a wish etc.
I couldn't understand this part either.
Walter wishes danny was never born, thus, he dissapears and he's stuck in the game world, he stays there for years and is now the astronaut.
So how on earth do his younger self and brother, reappear, when they've already entered the game?
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how on earth? clearly you weren't paying attention, they weren't ON earth, they were in outer space. hah. seriously though, just roll with it. some movies just require a leap of faith and if you overanalyze it can just ruin your enjoyment of what is a pretty fun movie. i think that was their primary goal here, and they succeeded, IMO.
shareBut if Walter never played the game then he could never have made the wish to undo his little brother's birth, and hence Danny would just be born, find the game, play it with Walter, allow Walter to make a wish etc.
And here we arrive at the classic time-travel "what if you go back in time and kill your grandfather" paradox. Apparently there is something else going on in the movie's universe that allows events to sidestep this paradox.
It could be that Walter moved to a timeline where his little brother wasn't born but where Walter would have found the game, played it (alone) and gotten stuck. Or maybe the wish caused Walter to move to (and get stuck in) a dimension within the game where nobody was playing the game because Danny wasn't born. Or, like another poster said on another thread, maybe the wish in the game cannot affect things outside the game (such as Danny's birth), but might affect only events inside the game, and affect them in whatever way the game sees it fit.
We can never be sure though, because for one we are never shown nor told what happened to Dax Shepard's character right after he made his wish and in the subsequent 15 years (if those events even happened for real, because as another poster has said, Astronaut could be just a character that was created by the game, and not really be an alternate Walter). But whatever the explanation, apparently the game plays by rules that did not result in the scenario that your post describes.
The astronaut said and I quote, "I passed through a time sphincter to get here." When asked what a time sphincter was, the astronaut explains that it's a worm hole as big as a walnut. To put it succinctly, the older version of Walter went back in time to stop the younger version of himself from wishing his baby brother away, and he did with time travel technology.Sorry, but that's irrelevant to the question that was raised by the poster whom I replied to.
true thats one thing I didnt like about it. everything was pretty good
shareThe whole point of the movie is that the brothers needed to learn to love and appreciate each other. They needed to learn to get along and help each other, survive and win, in life (not just in the game).
That would not have happened with a random astronaut.
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