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The Biggest Logic Fail in movie history! ***Spoilers***


The future humans have decided to kill the present humans & reverse what present humans did to the planet.

They believe that by doing so, it won't affect their existence (Grandfather Paradox) or even if they're not sure, they still want to take chance as their life is already fked up as Earth in the future is not so habitable. Fine!

They can have either of these Two Outcomes :-

1. Once they activate the Algorithm, the past humans will be destroyed and the Future humans too will cease to exist instantly because they killed their ancestors and henceforth cannot have been born.

2. Once they activate the Algorithm, the past humans will be destroyed and the Future humans will continue to exist as the 'Grandfather paradox' doesn't apply.


They are prepared for Option 1 (To die)
And if they are lucky i.e. Option 2, they survive.

My point is: If nothing will change, then even the climate/habitat won't change. If they have negated the effect on their own existence, the effect on the climate will also stay negated.

The movie suggests that by Option 2, Future humans' existence won't change but the climate/habitat will. How ??? WTF!!! Seriously?

Did this simple logic not occur to Nolan when he was busy scribbling this gimmickry tale?




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Just watch Back to the future instead. More clever and humane than yet another cold, heartless techno fest by Nolan whose movie characters come off as stiff as a stiffy.

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You're thinking too linear. Remember: everything is set.

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I genuinely got the impression that the organization in the future that is trying to activate the algorithm were just being vindictive.
I didn't at all think that they thought that they were gonna better things for themselves. Was there a line that said that? I thought the activation of the algorithm was solely punitive.

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You are correct. I figured as much while watching it.
It's a plot hole, unless you assume they are just stupid or crazy.

The movie has far bigger problems though.

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Your reasoning is sound to me. The people of the future would never know if they succeeded.

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Until some one makes a better parallel time inversion movie, this is it.

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