Post by jeff on Jan 5, 2005 21:54:38 GMT -5
the beginning.
(I'll preface my statement with two thoughts: first, I have only watched the movie twice; once with commentary and once without. Second, I am not a huge fan of movies that are wildly open to interpretation.)
That out of the way, my impression was that the TU is created because the engine traveled in time which was caused by a corruption in time. Said differently, a plane on October 30 flies through a corrupted area over Donnie's house, loses an engine (which becomes the artifact), that falls through the corrupted area and because of the corruption, travels backward through time. ( I don't think that a corruption in time is a danger if nothing metallic falls through it). The TU is created as soon as the engine falls through the rift, which provides MD Frank with sufficient time to get Donnie out. Donnie is important because he is (or is going to be) the LR and must right the universe. And so the movie goes....
Wouldn't the solution to the problem be to return the artifact to its proper time: October 30. It would seem that what was intended ( a whole lot of assumptions here) was that an engine would fall off a plane and land on Donnie, killing him. (I also assume that the engine falls off for a reason unrelated to the corruption of time).
I might have preferred that Donnie wake up (having successfully sent the engine back on its proper course (essentially back to the future) waking up, slowly forgetting what he accomplished (but with a bit of impending doom in his mind as well as general uneasiness in the community) and 28 days later getting killed by the engine.
It strikes me that any travel through time is going to cause a corruption. The engine that falls in the beginning is just a copy of the real one (like everybody is a copy of the real thing in the TU), the real one being the one that falls on October 30. One engine in, one engine out when its supposed to fall and the timestream (or whatever) is saved.
I ignore the fact that the TPOTT gives two anecdotes of time travel paradox. Not sure how that could be resolved...
Just a thought...
(I'll preface my statement with two thoughts: first, I have only watched the movie twice; once with commentary and once without. Second, I am not a huge fan of movies that are wildly open to interpretation.)
That out of the way, my impression was that the TU is created because the engine traveled in time which was caused by a corruption in time. Said differently, a plane on October 30 flies through a corrupted area over Donnie's house, loses an engine (which becomes the artifact), that falls through the corrupted area and because of the corruption, travels backward through time. ( I don't think that a corruption in time is a danger if nothing metallic falls through it). The TU is created as soon as the engine falls through the rift, which provides MD Frank with sufficient time to get Donnie out. Donnie is important because he is (or is going to be) the LR and must right the universe. And so the movie goes....
Wouldn't the solution to the problem be to return the artifact to its proper time: October 30. It would seem that what was intended ( a whole lot of assumptions here) was that an engine would fall off a plane and land on Donnie, killing him. (I also assume that the engine falls off for a reason unrelated to the corruption of time).
I might have preferred that Donnie wake up (having successfully sent the engine back on its proper course (essentially back to the future) waking up, slowly forgetting what he accomplished (but with a bit of impending doom in his mind as well as general uneasiness in the community) and 28 days later getting killed by the engine.
It strikes me that any travel through time is going to cause a corruption. The engine that falls in the beginning is just a copy of the real one (like everybody is a copy of the real thing in the TU), the real one being the one that falls on October 30. One engine in, one engine out when its supposed to fall and the timestream (or whatever) is saved.
I ignore the fact that the TPOTT gives two anecdotes of time travel paradox. Not sure how that could be resolved...
Just a thought...
