Jeez. It's really simple. No paradoxes, no alternate timelines, and dear god no changing photographs. None of that. What happened always happened. It had nothing to do with looking at the pictures and trying to emulate them or anything. If John is in tomorrow's picture, it doesn't matter if he tries to get on a plane to Timbuktu, something is going to happen so that he ends up in that picture.
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It's depressing to see how many people can't grasp the concept of an immutable timeline.
There is only one timeline. The photos can't change it, and nothing can change the photos. It's all set in a self-consistent chain that cannot be broken.
Callie didn't understand that and everyone paid the price for her mistake.
If anyone still doesn't get it:
Hypothetically, let's say you have this future-sensing camera, and see a picture of your white living room wall. You decide to screw with time by splashing red paint on the wall. The wall simply CANNOT be red when the picture is taken. Either you will change your mind, or fail in the attempt, or the wall will get painted over again with white, or something else will happen to make the picture real. This is simply the way the universe is ordered, and how the laws of physics work (at least according to the movie).
It's not a comfortable thought if you believe strongly in free will, but free will always has limits - you can't fight the laws of physics. You can't change the outcome seen in the picture any more that you can knock Earth out of its orbit by jumping up and down really hard.
It's depressing to see how many people can't grasp the concept of an immutable timeline.The timeline is mutable though. First, we have to take into account some truths here, and for starters, the past is happening and the future is happening now, but back or forth on the timeline. Everything is always happening.
The picture is always right and always records what is there 24 hours ahead of time. The events can change and so the picture will change to reflect the new events.
It's depressing to see how many people can't grasp the concept of an immutable timeline.
There is only one timeline. The photos can't change it, and nothing can change the photos. It's all set in a self-consistent chain that cannot be broken.
Callie didn't understand that and everyone paid the price for her mistake.
Hypothetically, let's say you have this future-sensing camera, and see a picture of your white living room wall. You decide to screw with time by splashing red paint on the wall. The wall simply CANNOT be red when the picture is taken. Either you will change your mind, or fail in the attempt, or the wall will get painted over again with white, or something else will happen to make the picture real. This is simply the way the universe is ordered, and how the laws of physics work (at least according to the movie).
I'm still working through it. Can Callie can change the past based on her knowledge of the future and does the "Kiss Jasper extra long" prove it?
It goes like this I think: Let's say that it's Monday night. They get a picture at 8 pm that shows that Callie and Jasper will be kissing and Finn will be painting at 8 pm on Tuesday night. Fine. So, she'll get a pic 12 hours ahead at 8 am on Tuesday morning. But, forget that for now.
Fast forward to Tuesday night and the kiss between Jasper and Callie and they do kiss extra long and her boyfriend gets mad. She feels this is a good thing and wants to make sure that that happens so on Wednesday morning at 8 am, she stands in the window and tapes a message to it saying "Kiss Jasper extra long".
True, she has already kissed Jasper extra long...but, she might have been changing the outcome of the pictures all along. She gets her future vision 12 hours before they get theirs. Whatever they see in the picture at 8 pm...she would already be able to change from the future.
If Jasper sees a pic on Friday night that shows his hair is green by Saturday night, then something must have happened to make it so. But, Callie will know what it is on Sunday morning, and since she has a 12 hour head start, she can know that he bought the wrong color dye (for instance), or got slimed or something, and can stand in the window on Sunday morning with a message saying, "Don't let Jasper dye his hair"...then, she'll see this Saturday morning, and have foreknowledge of it...so, if she stops him dying his hair that night, then the pic from Friday night will change because he doesn't have green hair.
If that makes sense.
I'm still working through it. Can Callie can change the past based on her knowledge of the future and does the "Kiss Jasper extra long" prove it?
If Jasper sees a pic on Friday night that shows his hair is green by Saturday night, then something must have happened to make it so. But, Callie will know what it is on Sunday morning, and since she has a 12 hour head start, she can know that he bought the wrong color dye (for instance), or got slimed or something, and can stand in the window on Sunday morning with a message saying, "Don't let Jasper dye his hair"...then, she'll see this Saturday morning, and have foreknowledge of it...so, if she stops him dying his hair that night, then the pic from Friday night will change because he doesn't have green hair.
Callie was convinced she could, and had changed events. She proved she had done it.
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