Timecop tv4/30/2023 ![]() Driven to Suicide: Max's ex-partner, Lyle, tries to jump out of a window on the reasoning that if he dies, McComb won't erase him from history.Dartboard of Hate: Senator McComb's picture is stuck to a dartboard and is quickly turned around when he drops by for a visit.Once he has his own time-travel crime ring up, he tries to shut down the very agency he helped create. He backs the time travel police agency apparently only because he senses the potential for time-travel money-making crimes to fuel his own ambitions. Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: Temporal criminals try to buy Wall Street stock on the day of the crash, and Hollywood land when it's worth only a few cents.Brick Joke: "I'm an ambitious Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world, and you, you're a fuckin' idiot who never figured out that the only way to make anything of all that fancy kicking is on Broadway." Right before killing the person responsible for that line, Max says "I'm still kicking.Beard of Sorrow: While '94 Max is clean-shaven, the Max of 2004 who's lost Melissa has notable Perma-Stubble and generally unkempt hair.Automated Automobiles: Voice-activated.One could Hand Wave this as a top-secret agency working above the Godzilla Threshold to police time, but their inability to offer leniency means that they can't really investigate crimes occurring in the past, just execute everyone they can prove isn't indigenous to the timeline. They probably only haul suspects back to headquarters as a manner of paperwork. It's inferred that they execute every suspect they catch within minutes of their return, as they don't have holding cells on-site. And they conduct their own executions by sending convicts into the past at great heights. Artistic License Law: The TEC has its own in-house courtroom with an always-on-call judge, but no attorneys arguing for the defense or even the prosecution, let alone a jury. ![]() And, of course, the body replaces much of the matter that it contains, such that two versions of someone from ten years apart will not have much of the same matter in their body anyway. But this can't happen in reality, since the same matter is always going to occupy a different space anyway. But in the film, what this apparently means is "if you touch yourself in the past, your body will melt into a revolting mass". And also there's Pauli's exclusion principle which states that two identical fermions (what matter is made up of) cannot occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. If you touch yourself in the past, like if you touch any object, the atoms in your body and your other body will actually occupy the space next to each other. Technically, of course, this is true, they physically can't. Artistic License Biology + Artistic License Physics: Another egregious scientific error has to do with the claim that "the same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time".A more valid method of asserting the authenticity of the gold would have been to examine whether the impurities in the metal and the casting marks match the time and place.Probably much cheaper re: energy expenditure, and also might leave other trace on or around the gold that could be dated. Both could theoretically be explained (at least somewhat better) by the simple idea that they didn't bring it back with them, just hid it somewhere and then dug it up in the present.And even if it was, if the gold was brought through time it wouldn't have measurably aged. Even if you could, carbon dating isn't as precise as it's depicted in the movie.Artistic License Biology + Artistic License Nuclear Physics: Apparently you can carbon-date gold bars.Anachronism Stew: Played for full effect in the opening scene where five Confederate cavalrymen guarding a gold wagon are massacred by a single man, when he suddenly produces two laser-sighted M91S submachine guns from under his coat.One politician even suggests that they simply re-invest the program's funding into tougher regulations on the technology - but he's really only interested in stopping Walker's interference in his own time travel shenanigans. So aside from the highly risky (and unprofitable) archaeological possibilities, the technology has no productive use, resulting in the titular Cops. ![]() And even this is risking some bizarre accident that could kill billions. Butterfly of Doom means that attempting to Set Right What Once Went Wrong would have disastrous side effects, so about the least dangerous thing you can do with it is either go back and steal things with advanced technology or make investments in the past that you can cash in on in the present. this scumbag is not going back to steal money!"Īt no point in the movie are there any legitimate reasons for time travel, implying that the only reason for time travel is to prevent other people from using time travel. ![]()
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