More specifically, let's talk about sex as it pertains to time travel movies.
You're already saying "Well, Gnoizic, the reason you're not getting laid is because you're discussing science fiction." While true, that's not the point.
In movies involving time travel (a la Back to the Future), someone jumps through time and they ultimately end up making a splash in an era they don't exist in. One problem that doesn't get any mention stems from sex. Nothing to see on camera, but plenty of unexplored ramifications of tampering with the past.
As we know, sperm is not a permanent entity in a man's body. Even unused, it will die off in its own time. We also know that millions (or hundreds of millions) of sperm cells can compete for one egg at any given time. You exist because you survived the crapshoot of reproduction, congrats! Combine the two facts, and we're starting to see a misstep in time travel movies. Namely: Why are we even seeing the same actor in the future? That person very likely no longer exists.
For example: Marty McFly goes back in time. He disrupts his parents' romance, but he fixes it by the end of the movie. In the end, George McFly is less nerd, more success story, all because of his son. What does this do? He still gets married to Lorraine, right? Yes. But if Marty showing up causes them to have sex and conceive a child at any different time than they already were, or under any number of other circumstances, that whole reproductive crapshoot starts all over again, with likely different results.
Let's say Marty's dad's success lets him and Lorraine go out for a nice night on the town, or even vacation in another state. Or go have a nice dinner. Anything that prevents the original scenario from happening at the exact same time (in this hypothetical: lamer George and Lorraine have nothing to do tonight, so they stay home and boink on the couch.) will lead to any number of variables changing in reproduction. The little swimmer who would've been Marty's older brother may, in this case, get lost in the shuffle, or Lorraine just doesn't get pregnant this time around. That little swimmer's gone. A new one, with different traits, may take his place. Same parents, and still Marty's brother, but he's going to be an entirely different person.
An even worse ramification: Marty himself could become someone else, while the original is just another swimmer lost in the shuffle. He ceases to exist, and an entirely different person is born.
Sure, keeping the same actor in and pretending like George and Lorraine still had the same exact sex at the same exact time in their more successful lives is easy on the audience. But of all unaddressed time travel mishaps, this is one that could easily take the cake.
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But what if that situation described was part of the whole timeline thing? It could be debated that if Marty never time traveled then he'd never be born. Him doing so was part of the plan and therefor was supposed to happen. If Marty going back in time was to prevent his birth then all of a sudden he'd vanish
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To fix this, let's say that each time Marty travels through time, he actually creates a separate reality. The reality he first left is still there, but he left it. When he entered into the past, it's not the same past as the first reality-it's entirely new. He "fixes" it, and leaves into yet another reality where it just so happens that his parents are rich and his dad has more swag. Everyone is different in this reality, yet the parents nor Biff recognizes Marty whatsoever. Makes sense since he was never in this reality's past. And so on for the third movie. Your problem is solved.
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. Really it's a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey...stuff.
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[b][i]You bring up an excellent point. However, I find that humans often enjoy works of fiction even when the logic behind them is unsound. Most likely, Marty McFly would not exist in the same way as at the beginning of the film. However, the film had a "happy ending," something that humans seem to prefer. [/i][/b]
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*Baby! Lets talk about You and Me!* [spoiler]I couldn't resist...[/spoiler]
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Well, that was a disappointment.
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Interesting idea, but having over-complex movies will have people complaining that it was stupid, because they themselves can't figure it out. Inception was a movie that for some reason, quite a few people didn't understand, and because of that, quite a few of them disliked the movie. If you over-complicate movies, it's great for people with functioning brains, but the majority will not understand and say it's a bad movie, and in turn probably won't be too popular (less money).
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Edited by LowIQPlayz3445: 4/23/2014 1:32:27 AMSo, say in 20 years I go back to the 70's. I was already there 40 years ago. Any desired and undesired changes have already been made. Think if it this way: No one can go back in time and kill hitler. If you try, the gun will jam and you will fail, because you've already tried. It's already happened.
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Good point mate
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*SEES THREAD* OH BBY ;) *ENTERS THREAD* I AM DISAPPOINT...
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I read this
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That's a very good point.
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I came in here to hide this thread. I left pleasantly surprised. I like how you think, OP.
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I've ALWAYS questioned about this. We are the product of luck of being the sperm that made it at the exact right time. Any second later or earlier, [i]we may have not existed.[/i] That blows my mind everyday.
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Mind = Blown.
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I read all that. What do I get
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Didnt read lol
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Dude... You just blew my -blam!-ing mind, man
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*reads title* oh just anothe- *reads hashtags* *reads op's username* ah, this thread should be a treat
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This is genius you should write scripts for movies.
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What is sex? Baby don't -blam!- me, don't -blam!- me, no more...