"Unending" Question

[Swarles Barkley]

So I finally got to see "Unending" (or most of it at least on a local station here in Boston today). Forgive me if this is a noob question that's been answered a thousand times already, but there's one thing that bugged me. Why aren't there now two Teal'cs running around? An "Old Teal'c" and a "50 years younger Teal'c"? Teal'c was protected from the reversal in time, and stops Sam from initiating the time dilation field in the first place, so shouldn't there be a "Present Day Teal'c" already on the ship along with "Future Teal'c"? Or shouldn't Future Teal'c at least have just disappeared or something, leaving only the original Teal'c? It seems like the least likely outcome would be for just Future Teal'c to be remaining in the present (now altered) timeline. Did I miss something?

This is why time travel gives me a headache. Otherwise, enjoyed the episode.

 

[David cgc]

Well, the way this particular time travel worked is that the entire ship and every last thing in it rewound to the state it was in fifty years before, except for the little bit that was in Teal'c's bubble. It's just like he went into suspended animation for fifty years, except backwards. He didn't actually travel back in time, as usually happens.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Well, the way this particular time travel worked is that the entire ship and every last thing in it rewound to the state it was in fifty years before, except for the little bit that was in Teal'c's bubble. It's just like he went into suspended animation for fifty years, except backwards. He didn't actually travel back in time, as usually happens.

Good lord...that actually makes sense!

 

[Borg451]

Well, the way this particular time travel worked is that the entire ship and every last thing in it rewound to the state it was in fifty years before, except for the little bit that was in Teal'c's bubble. It's just like he went into suspended animation for fifty years, except backwards. He didn't actually travel back in time, as usually happens.

Good lord...that actually makes sense!

im gonna have to disagree...

whagt about about 'cause and effect' or in the case of reversing time, 'effect and cause'

that doesent explain it... else where was non-stasis teal'c for the past 50 years while moving backwards..

 

[KevinFlys]

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[Kpnuts]

I really don't think TPTB are smart enough, nor care about time travel plot holes like that. They ended up with a supposedly 'kewl' time travel/AR episode that ended with Teal'c saving the day, that's good enough for them.

 

[archeryguy1701]

It kinda makes sense. Basically, everyone and this ship was going backwards except Teal'c, so while everyone was sort of "retracing their steps", Teal'c was essentially replacing himself as they went back. Think "Star Trek First Contact". The process seems similar.

 

[Broccoli]

It kinda makes sense. Basically, everyone and this ship was going backwards except Teal'c, so while everyone was sort of "retracing their steps", Teal'c was essentially replacing himself as they went back. Think "Star Trek First Contact". The process seems similar.

That's how I interpreted it. The time travel reminded me of how they did it in the TV show Seven Days.

However, if that was the case, I was wondering why they couldn't just write everything down and put that in the time field. Sure, it might take them a little longer to find the note, but what's a few days versus fifty years?

 

[archeryguy1701]

^You mean sending a note with how to go back in time back far enough that they didn't drain most of their power, thus they could send more people or even the ship all the way back?

 

[Kirby]

However, if that was the case, I was wondering why they couldn't just write everything down and put that in the time field.

Makes sense, but then how would Teal'c 'kewl' grey streak in his hair? You gotta think these things through!

 

[Broccoli]

However, if that was the case, I was wondering why they couldn't just write everything down and put that in the time field.

Makes sense, but then how would Teal'c 'kewl' grey streak in his hair? You gotta think these things through!

Oh, simple. Just explain that skunk hair is the new rage on what's left of Dakara.

 

[MNM]

im gonna have to disagree...

whagt about about 'cause and effect' or in the case of reversing time, 'effect and cause'

that doesent explain it... else where was non-stasis teal'c for the past 50 years while moving backwards..

From the point of view of them coming back in time, there is no "non-stasis Teal'c". Tealc goes in one linear time line. He goes forward in time with them for 50 years, and then hops in a stasis field as everything around him goes back in time 50 years, at which point he hops out of the stasis field, at the end of his line.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

From the point of view of them coming back in time, there is no "non-stasis Teal'c". Tealc goes in one linear time line. He goes forward in time with them for 50 years, and then hops in a stasis field as everything around him goes back in time 50 years, at which point he hops out of the stasis field, at the end of his line.

So Teal'c is now 50 years older and has full memories of everything that happened in the episode?

 

[MNM]

From the point of view of them coming back in time, there is no "non-stasis Teal'c". Tealc goes in one linear time line. He goes forward in time with them for 50 years, and then hops in a stasis field as everything around him goes back in time 50 years, at which point he hops out of the stasis field, at the end of his line.

So Teal'c is now 50 years older and has full memories of everything that happened in the episode?

Yes

 

[Borg451]

im gonna have to disagree...

whagt about about 'cause and effect' or in the case of reversing time, 'effect and cause'

that doesent explain it... else where was non-stasis teal'c for the past 50 years while moving backwards..

From the point of view of them coming back in time, there is no "non-stasis Teal'c". Tealc goes in one linear time line. He goes forward in time with them for 50 years, and then hops in a stasis field as everything around him goes back in time 50 years, at which point he hops out of the stasis field, at the end of his line.

that wouldnt work.. so why would carter of made tretonin for tealc if he didnt exist

 

[archeryguy1701]

^He didn't say that Teal'c didn't exist. He said that Teal'c progressed with the rest of them, and when the time field was reversed with Teal'c in the stasis field, Teal's besically replaced himself as he went back.

 

[bigdaddy]

It's time travel written by the Stargate writers, who the hell cares if it makes sense if it an enjoyable episode?

Oh yeah this episode sucked...

 

[cultcross]

However, if that was the case, I was wondering why they couldn't just write everything down and put that in the time field.

Makes sense, but then how would Teal'c 'kewl' grey streak in his hair? You gotta think these things through!

It wasn't because it was "kewl", it was because Christopher Judge had aged visibly in the 10 years since Children of the Gods and if they were gonna be carrying on in TV movies, would age between each story even more. And this is a Jaffa with a supposedly very lengthy lifespan. They added 50 years to make his facial aging more realistic given his approxiamte life expectancy.

 

[Borg451]

^He didn't say that Teal'c didn't exist. He said that Teal'c progressed with the rest of them, and when the time field was reversed with Teal'c in the stasis field, Teal's besically replaced himself as he went back.

NO It Makes no sense....

there should be 2 Teal'c one who went back and got younger and one in stasis..

 

[RoJoHen]

Old Teal'c pushed Young Teal'c out of an airlock. It was a deleted scene.