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Why not take some of the million years before giving it away?

posted 10 years ago by MyDarkMeatofSteel
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Would anyone seriously not take any when you're minutes away from expiring? Even if they took a year each, that final run for the Timekeeper's time should have been irrelevant.

[–] VanWhistler 10 years ago

The film-makers wanted to do something similar from earlier in the movie, when his mother died in his arms.

Makes sense to do the scene again, making the viewer wonder if he was going to get back to her in time.

[–] th-zero 9 years ago

On top of that, it didn't matter from the perspective of their little revolution that who gets the excess time, as long as it's not in the same sector it belongs.