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Will David eventually run into his 12 year old self in 1986?

posted 8 years ago by blbbg1
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Okay so David was set back from 1986 to 1978 and assuming he returned to the woods just minutes after he was originally abducted, does that mean the 20 year old version of Dave will see his 12 year old self from the first visit to 1986 or was Dave sent back minutes before he was abducted and now there are two Daves walking around in 1978 and the other Dave from the beginning of the film was either abducted or still looking for his brother while the present Dave is on that boat with his family.

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] blbbg1 8 years ago

What the hell did you just say to me?

[–] Mad_Monkey 8 years ago

He called you a dkhead.

Don't take it too seriously. Time travel is just fantasy so you can make up any rules you want. It's just a movie.

[–] PinkFlyingPasta 8 years ago

Do you subscribe to any of these theories?
1. You can not return to a moment in time where you left
2. Seeing yourself would make you go mad
3. There can not be two of you living in the same universe so it would be impossible for David to come back to his original timeline

[–] fartinglikethedickens 8 years ago

No. By travelling back to 1978, the past has been re-written.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

If the timeline didn't get 're-written' and erased (which does cause a paradox problem that can't be resolved without changing the whole story), then we would see two Davids in 1986 in this very movie.

Moving David back to 1978 doesn't generate a second David.

However, the whole thing is a paradox, so explaining what would happen, when nothing can really be happen in the way it's shown to happen, if we are to believe what we are shown actually happened the way we were shown it to happen, becomes quite impossible.

[–] kuatorises (7467) 4 years ago

David isn't in the future anymore, he went back to 78. The exact moment he left. That 1986 was erased.