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Time travel rules aren't even consistent

posted 8 years ago by haritrevize
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So, based on two things:

1. Original videotape with him in it
2. Car being fused in the wall even before they sent it back in time (seen in the video)

It sets up time travel rules of things being set in stone, as in, anything that involves time travel has already happened (as it happened in the past) regardless of the sequence of events.

Then it contradicts itself with a tonne of stuff - biggest being the ending, where they change the past and create a new sequence.

Simplest way to visualise:

http://imgur.com/a/WcbRa

[–] th-zero 8 years ago

I just finished watching it and came here to say the same, but with a different example:
When the guy draws a smiley on his sleeping past self, we see the drawing being drawn on _his_ neck in real time.
That's not how time travel was set up in the movie.

I enjoyed this movie, but like every time travel movie, it just gets stupider the more I think about it. Is there a writer out there, who can write a _proper_ time travel script?

[–] dansmithii 8 years ago

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." -The (Tenth) Doctor -- Doctor Who S3E10 'Blink'