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Fixing the timeline paradox... (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by vismajorx
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After the heroes save NY it shows everyone in the bunker/project base celebrating the saving of NY, the fact that it exists again... but how does anyone in the bunker know that NY was actually saved? If it was never destroyed in the first place how do they remember it being destroyed, why celebrate anything? Nothing has happened from their perspective. Doesn't make any sense.

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Maybe we can have Puppet O'Neill jump over a puppet shark?

[–] schlipp 11 years ago

There's some techno-babble in the middle when they're giving the new guys a tour that explains some kind of field around their bunker that shields it from the effects, so they'll always be unaffected. Hence the General leaving and saying "if you succeed, I won't know it" etc.

[–] ughmoretodealwith 11 years ago

Yeah they stated a distortion field is created by the particle collider that protects the facility and those within in it from time changes. It's actually something done in several other time travel stories where they put computer databases in protected fields so that if time changes they know it did because the computers recorded the changes.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.
-- Friedrieh Wilhelm Nietzsche

[–] dwarol 11 years ago

But of course the computers are subject to the same physical laws as people and wouldn't "remember" it either. Their hard drives, for example, would never get written with the alternate time line.

That distortion field was one of the silliest plot points, but necessary. Also silly was the "world's greatest particle accelerator" dumping particles into a room with normal atmosphere. The radiation given off by particles hitting air molecules would have required massive shielding and easily killed off anybody a few feet from it. There's a reason why the world's actual biggest particle accelerator (the LHC in Europe) is buried 100 meters underground and nobody goes next to it into the tunnel while it's running (the beam supposedly has the energy equivalent of a modern US aircraft carrier under full steam, if you put a side of beef in its path it would probably explode).

[–] jpg92 9 years ago

Even within its own logic, this would make no sense. A field that separates two timelines? OK i'll buy it but then the two twimeline have to be mutually fitted perfectly, for example in the outside timeline that main protagonist is somewhere in Lybia or DC, the bomb never happened, he never got into jail then drafted to the time travel project; he probably talked to his wife the same morning. Inside the bubble he is currently inside the bunker celebrating his saving the world. So: there are now two of him?

What if the general stayed inside the bunker in the outside timeline but left it in the inside timeline to report on the current mission? Yeah he wont remember anything all right, he does not exist anywhere anymore!

Seriously, I like Time travel shows a lot, but you gotta be smart to make one right. This felt like it was written by a dumb high schooler. And they added to the insult by having Jeff Fahey from Lost, the best written time-travel show ever, and by unnecessarily plagiarising many similar shows like stargate and quantum leap. Plus they clearly didnt try to get things right which is ironic for a show about getting the details right to fit into the timeline undetected; the characters interactions are all wrong - really, a soldier bro-fisting his new Commanding officer? Experts figuring out something critical about upcoming doom but not saying a word for minutes just for bad suspense? Assigning a mentally unstable operative currently in jail awaiting trial who knows nothing of the whole project to the most delicate operation ever and send him in as team leader without any training within hours? And do not get me started of this Panopticon parody...

It is frustrating, something good could have been done with that budget, now they ruined the time-travel TV concept for a few years....

[–] Naldoman 8 years ago

DUDE...all I gotta say is ... don't ever watch Doctor Who! You don't have any tolerance for creative license in writing...