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What about the other clones?

posted 9 years ago by bmtolles
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One plot point I'm surprised I haven't seen/heard mentioned yet, and stay with me here, is: I'm assuming there's Jack Harper and Victoria clones all over the world, doing the same thing that 49 and 52 are doing. What happens when the Tet gets blown up? Are they confused as to why Sally stops communicating? Do they just live out their days in their towers, or do they go exploring in the radiation zones and find the truth? Do they get up with the other humans? If so it would probably make repopulating the earth difficult, as each offspring of the clones would genetically be a sibling of every other offspring a clone made, which would result in a huge chance of inbreeding. Idk, maybe I'm being too literal and looking beyond too much, but these are questions that plagued me since seeing this movie, which I still feel that, despite the holes (couldn't Sally/Tet remotely control his ship to stop him, etc.), is the best piece of Sci-Fi I've seen since the Matrix (15 years.. Wow I feel old)

[–] betwana 9 years ago

Just saw the movie on TV again. It would be so awkward for Julia if Jacks keep showing up at her lakeside cabin looking to grow old and fat with her.

[–] tjejen 9 years ago

Haha. Luckily so far only one remaining Jack has seen her alive, so the other ones will probably think she died long ago if they do remember her. Good thing she lives in a cabin out in the woods!

[–] rouwdouwer 8 years ago

How is this a plothole? Assuming there are some 50 Jacks in the states, that would put the number of Jacks to about 300 worldwide (just ballparking it here). And, despite what others say, they are out there. It's illogical to think that just two Jacks would be maintained so clost to one another, while the whole frikkin globe is covered in deuteronium rich sea water.

To come back to my point: your "plothole" isn't a plothole. It's what happens next. Yes, Tet stops communicating. So those Jacks and Vikas are loose. And yes, the scavs will find then, based on the fact that the group with 52 started roaming about too.

But it isn't a plothole, because it's a logical result of the movie's plot.

[–] RogerPhilip (2) a year ago

What many people fail to realize is that Tech 49 and 52 lived in zones that shared periphery.

Then 52 saw 49 as well as Julia. His Vica 52 saw Jack 49 too.

It still took him three years to locate Vica even though he likely knew which zone to look into.

The odds of any other Jack stumbling onto that little oasis are low to say the least.

RP