Great-grandparents?


I can accept all the time-travelling stuff, but the twist revelation that they have saved the lives of their own great-grandparents surely doesn't work! If the children had failed to save the lives of Sara and Tom then they wouldn't have existed in the first place to make the attempt!

It doesn't make any sense. Or does it?

Can anybody who is better at grasping plot than I am please clear up my confusion so I can stop trying to think about it?

Lovely film nonetheless, but anybody of my generation who was brought up on Back to the Future will be startled by this logical howler.

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I hope I can make this sound logical.

Sara tells Lucy and Jamie she knows about the gravestones that belong to her and Georgie, but their deaths have not happened yet. Because they are aware of the graves they can do something to prevent them and Lucy and Jamie go back to help them BEFORE the final attempt on their lives.
When Lucy and Jamie return to their own time the graves are not just gone, they have never been there.

The Long Walk stops every year, just once.

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love this film but will admit i have a problem with this, the graves were there before lucy and jamie went back in time therefor sara and georgie have died so how were they their granparents before they had changed time

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If you have watched Star Trek or Doctor Who, you will know that this sort of thing happens all the time, and you will also know the Doctor's explanation that time does not go in a straight line as most people imagine, but is much more.... "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey".

As for "logical howlers", surely the very idea that time travel to the past* by potion (or any other means) is possible at all is a big enough howler already. If you accept time travel, then a little temporal paradox (or chronoconundrum) is surely no problem?



*Travel into the future is no problem. There are two theoretically possible ways: cyrogenic near-suspenion, and relativistic travel at near-light speed.

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you have to believe in multiple time lines for this theory to work

I am the ray of darkness in your otherwise sunny day...

The Cake is a Lie

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