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The End (spoiler)

posted 8 years ago by mikebos
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*Spoilers below*

One of two things happened here.

The first possibility is that the Emily Clone was able to monitor where she sent Emily Prime, saw that she screwed it up by sending her "hundreds of thousands of years into the past", and corrected her mistake.

The more likely, and more grim, is that Emily Prime died when the "extremely dangerous time travel" dropped her into the past and left her there. Because Emily Prime died, the subsequent Emily clones never existed, and Emily 3rd Generation never transported Emily Prime to the future, nor sent her to the past, therefore adjusting the time/space continuum and leaving her in the present, exactly where she started.

[–] spank-my-17 8 years ago

I just think it was a failure on the time traveling machines part which was then corrected. Future Emily mentions that they have problems with the physical time traveling, so I just took it as part of that and a quick fake-out for the audience.

She says that she remembers the advice she gives to Emily Prime, so I assumed that it was a set time line that couldn't be changed, and so she couldn't end up forever in that pre historic era, since then the timeline would be different and a alternative parallel universe would be created.

[–] DanMetsFan 8 years ago

I like your second explanation better, although I wish they had ended the film about 5 seconds earlier and not shown her transported to the present. It would have been very errie to end it in the past with her looking up at the snow.

[–] DeusExKatrina 8 years ago

I think our third generation Emily did it intentionally to teach Emily Prime a lesson, because of course when she thinks she's lost in time to starve to death and then finds herself back in her present, she realizes how valuable that life really is. If nothing else, that was clearly the author's intention for the audience, to scare us over Emily's fate. So it'd make sense if that was the intention in-universe as well.

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