It is not easy to write a story with so many branches and characters, but it is a little pretentious. There are not no logical loopholes, say a few obvious paradoxes in the play:
1. “It starts and ends.” Then according to this logic, things are a loop, and only one of the loops needs to be interrupted. It can be any link, it doesn't have to be the starting point to stop the so-called Mitchell suicide.
2. In the same way, if someone wants to really break the cycle, they can make good use of the butterfly effect, so it is impossible for everything to work as well as Adam envisioned. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the butterfly effect is completely ignored, there are obviously many opportunities to cut off the middle ring. For example, after the middle-aged Noah found out that he was being used, he could tell the young Noah not to believe Adam's instructions.
3. In the same way, the point of explaining why the middle-aged Noah did not persuade the young Noah to defect before the death action is that you cannot tell people the future, otherwise it will disrupt everything. And this contradicts the whole play's idea that "the present is controlled by the future", which can be said to be the most prominent place where the logic cannot be self-consistent.
4. Of course, in order to self-consist why there are not so many butterfly effects in this cycle, the screenwriter added some elements of mysterious power, such as Noah's inability to shoot Adam, such as Claudia's father must die at home that day. Some fatalistic feeling. Of course, this theme is already revealed in the lines: God, please give me the peace to accept what I cannot change. Give me the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to tell the difference.
Here are some angles that have been overlooked:
5. Since the plan to prevent Mitchell's suicide will cause the world to have no male protagonist, and coincide with another "tragic" parallel time and space (it is assumed here that the last Masha comes from another parallel time and space without a male protagonist), then it is best The solution is very simple - stop the young male protagonist from finding Michele and discover the time-space tunnel. Strangely, it was the middle-aged man who guided the young male protagonist to find the tunnel.
6. Very routinely, every time the male protagonist was about to cut off the cycle, he always had the strength to persuade him not to—the first time he wanted to bring Michele back to the original time and space, the middle-aged man persuaded him that without Michele, there would be no himself; second When trying to persuade Mitchell not to commit suicide, Claudia convinced him that a world without her is not good at all. From this point of view, Adam and the "white devil" have the same motivation - to return a "good" world with a male protagonist. But the former wish there was no more time? The latter wish there was no end of the world? (The difference between the two is not very clear at present, I even feel capricious).
So when did the male protagonist go from wanting to stop the doomsday to wanting to quickly complete the last cycle? There is currently no answer. Looking at the tone of the first two seasons, it can be speculated that the male protagonist may have gone to the extreme after believing time and time again that people will conquer the sky, trying to become the beginning of a world that can change and dominate everything. I boldly predict that he will fail in the end because the show seems to want to express a contradictory view of religion where time is the supreme religion on the one hand and everyone wants to get rid of it on the other.
7. Some say Noah is the only character who is equally young in all time and space, so there must be a bigger secret. No, he is not not old, but according to Adam's instructions, he constantly walks among the important people in various time and space, and he was killed in middle age.
The brain that can come up with such a story is not ordinary, I admire it very much, and I have to be prepared to have hundreds of millions of brains to find fault. I find fault very superficially, and maybe I will be slapped in the face immediately or next season.
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