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Didn't follow established rules

posted 9 years ago by view_and_review
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So, in HTTM they went back to 1985 and were their young selves.

In HTTM2 they went 10 years in the future and were their older selves.

Based upon that rule they wouldn't have been able to go back to 1776 and all those other real early times because they wouldn't have existed.

[–] MissEFierro 9 years ago

"Established rules"
Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

[–] Johnpatricko 9 years ago

They established in the first movie that you can go back before you existed. Hence the kid interrupting his conception and disappearing from existence momentarily.

[–] McFly_2015 9 years ago

They established in the first movie that you can go back before you existed. Hence the kid interrupting his conception and disappearing from existence momentarily.

yeah exactly and as we find out the flickering is only because his father Lou goes back too and jeopardizes the conception of his mother.

In the first film Jacob stays the way he is in 2010 (remember Lou asking if he should be a sperm swimming around)

though here might be a potential goof;

Based on the above the characters clearly learn that if you go back in time before your birth, you remain as you are, therefore presumably the same would happen if you go into the future beyond your death. Yet when they arrive in the future and see Lou alive, they deduct that everything is fine and he must have survived, they never ask the question if Lou is only alive because he’s traveled past his own death?