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biggest plot-hole of all


anyone with any sense of self-preservation would be terrified of doing anything to alter the past.

if these people are, say, even a couple of hundred years into the future, they are 8 or so generations removed with the present they are disrupting. many marriages, and the circumstances of conception if you calculated the odds are staggeringly low.

we are all lottery winners.

that said, its a fun show. trevor is my favorite character. will's wife irritates me, the girl with the damaged brain has impossibly long eye-lashes and nice lips, the rest are pretty cool.

best joke so far: about the hospital food, early in season 2.

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It's not a plot hole. Some may consider it a very risky thing to do but that doesn't constitute a plot hole.

The team knew very well the personal risks they were taking. They discussed the possibility that they could possibly wipe out their own existences when they deflected the asteroid.

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My understanding was that the future was pretty much screwed up and this was a desperate attempt to save humanity. They didn't leave a comfortable, happy future. They left a mess they were hoping to fix.

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And additionally, at least at first, they trusted that the machine giving them directions had this all figured out.

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