Thread:Marvelus/@comment-27496405-20190519011243/@comment-25521424-20190702095527

Protego Maxima wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: The movie also shows that you can reappear whenever and wherever by typing in the coordinates to your intended destination. How do we as the audience know that Cap didn't ignore Bruce calling him back and just type in the coordinates to the Avengers Compound in the year 2023 and appeared on the bench, just like him and Tony appeared in 1970 on Camp Lehigh? Yeah, about that. First of all, I would like to say I am definetly defending the Russo statement in which they say alternate timeline thing. However, Steve HAD TO come out of Quantum Tunnel. Why? He could just jump to 2023 with his wrest device like they did when they went to 1970 from 2012, right? Answer is no. If Steve jump to 2023 without exiting the Quantum Tunnel, or wait 70+ years without using any kind of device (which makes more sense, given his age); he would be in a 2023 that is CHANGED.

I don't know if you watched Back to the Future series, but in 2nd movie they experience something similar.

So Steve had to come out of Quantum Tunnel to reach 2023 that wasn't changed (our timeline). The movie just made a mistake to make that scene more dramatic.

The Back to the Future trilogy is not a very strong example of time-travel used well, mostly because it uses two different set of rules to explain time travel from the first movie to the second. The first movie imply that everything happens on just one timeline that can be altered and rewritten, and it is open to paradoxes. The second film introduces the concept of an alternate present create changing the past, that makes zero sense compared to what happen in the first film (by the same rule, Marty should've never start disappearing because what happened in that past only affected the alternate future).

But is still an amazing movie, nevertheless.