Timeline for How is the Thomas Granger coma/"recursive" problem in Primer caused by a paradox?
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 20:09 | comment | added | Flash | okay, I'm starting to maybe accept that paradoxes do cause problems in Primer. the "independent" timelines theory may not be true--timelines do affect each other, as you've suggested. also, the director himself has mentioned this here: villagevoice.com/2004-10-05/film/a-primer-primer | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 5:21 | comment | added | Liesmith | The reason I mentioned the bleeding after the phone incident is that the phone problem is our first instance of a paradox, and our first instance of injury due to time travel. If a tiny paradox can cause cranial bleeding, then a large paradox (trying to undo multiple deaths), would be significantly worse. I'd argue that it'd be even worse than temporarily drugging your double (though even that had side effects in nose bleeds, fainting, and loss of fine motor control). I suspect that Abe will suffer more severe injury from sabotaging the prototype Device. | |
| Jan 23, 2015 at 0:00 | comment | added | Flash | @Liesmith okay, I accept that bleeding, or something more severe like a coma, is a side-effect of too much time travel/improper sealing. what I don't understand is why Granger's interactions are causing any paradox at all. there shouldn't be a paradox, based on the independent timelines proposition. the narrator talks about Granger's coma, and states "from this, they deduced that the problem was recursive", implying that the reason for the coma is a paradox or recursion, which I argue shouldn't be a problem at all. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 23:21 | comment | added | Liesmith | This is just a theory, but I don't think it was resolving a paradox, but was just a physiological response to the paradox. Aaron and Abe were both deteriorating (ie, the ear bleeding one or two trips after the cell phone incident), and they were traveling as correctly as possible. If Granger left the box early, or had improper sealing to keep out the gas, then it stands to reason that he would suffer much more severe effects. This is just my interpretation, so I won't list it as an answer unless you find it a satisfactory theory. | |
| Jan 22, 2015 at 20:42 | comment | added | Omegacron | ... the time-traveling Aarons/Abes were actually robots. | |
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