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Robertson created false flag paradox to grow time travel department?


Soooooo if I understand correctly, this movie basically tells us the government created a series of false flag events in order to grow its time travel police department so it could save more people? What are the writers telling us here?

Personally I thought it was predictable as a film, and didn't much appreciate the mysterious deus ex machina violin case time travel device. Even in Terminator the time machine was huge and nothing dead will go through... This was just waaaayyyyy too convenient; enter the date on the lock and wap!

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The original story's version had a net you had to surround the travelers in. Awkward.

But you're correct that the Bureau *uses* the terrible crimes of the Fizzle Bomber to build itself up... in order to create the Fizzle Bomber. Hee.

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But you're correct that the Bureau *uses* the terrible crimes of the Fizzle Bomber to build itself up... in order to create the Fizzle Bomber. Hee.


Which ultimately leads to this question: what EXACTLY is the true purpose of the "Agency?"

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I'd guess the first thing you should do when you invent your time traveling machine is to ensure you invent your time traveling machine before Microsoft/Apple/Google agents from the future steal your machine and use it to stop you from inventing your time travel machine, so they can invent the time travel machine first. And maybe you do that by using a brilliant hermaphrodite in an incestuous causality loop as some kind of anti-time-piracy mechanism, probably because the brilliant hermaphrodite invented or influenced the invention of time travel in the first place, in between bouts of the false flag temporal terrorism you set out on because you started tinkering around, seeing what you could get away with changing. So then you start stealing Microsoft/Apple/Google inventions from the future, by killing Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak with your crazy time agent who just happens to also be you and your mother and your father. So you start your own little time agency and recruit yourself into it so you have a nice story to tell your younger self, before you invent time travel, convincing your younger self to set out on the course of events that would ensure the invention of the time machine. Or whatever.

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veru nice theory! gg

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Lmao klonkey!

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What's to say the time machine in the movie is inside the case? That may just be one of the controls for it. Maybe the machine is enormous and takes up a small city in 1981? In most movies and shows, Terminator, Time Cop, Quantum Leap, etc the machine is massive and all a person carries is a watch or nothing.



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