Talk:The Time Machine (2002 film)

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logic of time travel

The Über-Morlock tells Alexander the reason he can't prevent Emma's death is that it is 'incorporated into the timeline'. Accepting this then how does Alexander go back from the far future and destroy the Morlock base. I mean while the Über-Morlock was hanging outside of the 'time sphere and aging, time would have unfolded for decades with its own timeline. For instance Mara would have been killed by the Morlocks as there would have been nobody around to control them. The future Alexander saw would have been the one in which the Time Machine did not explode. Then he returns to the 'present' and destroys the machine and all the other Morlocks. Why didn't the 'timeline' prevent this. The logic of time travel as depicted in the film suggests a cosmic timeline-censor that 'knows' the correct sequence of events and acts to correct for this. But the 'theory' doesn't allow for which is the 'real' timeline. How would the 'timeline' remember the correct sequence of events? emacsuser (talk) 13:32, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hartdegen

please can someone write what happens when Hartdegen goes further into futer, after the uber-morlock dies etc. - a wasteland-like environment is shown. Does anyone have an explanation for that?--TheFEARgod 15:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the original book, the main character travels to this period of time and witnesses the last days before Earths destruction. He describes it much the same way, as a desolate wasteland. I would surmise that the makers decided to include this bit in the film and alter it to suggest that without Alexanders intervention, the Morlocks will continue to spread across the world, wiping out the Eloi and consuming the Earths natural resources. --Crais459 11:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that the Uber-Morlock mentions that without those like him, the more primitive Morlocks would revolt and waste the entire food supply. This article is poorly written, with a lot of it being conjecture. It needs work. Levid37 17:57, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistencies

I deleted the last one because it doesn't make any sense. The future that Alex saw was not definite. He did not attempt to stop it until after he saw it, so it could still be changed. He was able to use the machine to do so because whether or not he had seen the future, the time machine would still exist because of Emma's death. L2K 17:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, that entry was nonsensical Kingpin1055 19:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Destruction of the whole Molock race?

It is said that when the professor destroyed his time machine, he provoked the destruction of the whole Molock race, while it has been clearly stated that there are other colonies on the planet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.164.255.82 (talk • contribs) 18:05, 15 August 2007

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]