Question: In the fight at Walker's apartment, wouldn't the shoes worn by the guy with the taser ground him, making him immune to the shock that killed him?
raywest
24th Mar 2025
Timecop (1994)
22nd Jul 2023
Timecop (1994)
Question: It is revealed that same matter cannot occupy the same space. Walker carries his other self to safety after being knocked out. Wouldn't this break those rules?
Answer: At what point does Walker carry himself? Present day Walker is knocked out while outside the house. Future Walker kills the guy and then goes into the house. Unless you're talking about a deleted scene, future Walker never moves or touches present day Walker. Future Walker carries his wife to safety and lays her next to the knocked out Walker.
13th Jan 2023
Timecop (1994)
Question: How can their house still be standing in 2004 when it was destroyed in 1994? Even if they rebuilt it it wouldn't look s old, it would only be a few years old.
Answer: The explosion did not happen because, by killing the younger McComb, Max prevented the timeline in which McComb planted the bomb. In the new timeline, Senator McComb mysteriously disappeared 10 years ago and was never heard from again.
Answer: In one of the flashbacks, it is shown that the wife designed the house and had been thinking about it for a long time. I think the easiest answer to this is: the house was simply rebuilt the same as it was.
Answer: My understanding was the timeline had been reset in such a way that the explosion had never happened.
Except that the explosion did happen. When Max carries Melissa out of the house to prevent her death again, their house is exploding in the background. This is because McComb had placed a bomb in the house to ensure that the explosion would kill Max which of course had ultimately failed.
The explosion happened, but it was before Max returned to his own time in the future. Once he went back through the time portal, everything somehow reset itself to before the bomb being detonated. The previous events in the past were erased in favor of an alternate timeline. The movie does not attempt to give a logical explanation, and it makes no sense, as most time-travel stories never do, but a "suspension of disbelief" is employed here. We're supposed to accept that it happened. Max is the only character who knows what the previous timeline was like, but he now has no idea of current events (like his wife and son being alive) in his alternate life during the intervening time from when he was in the past and returns to the "new" present.
20th Jul 2020
Answer: Shoes do not guarantee protection from electrocution. Very thick rubber soles might be somewhat effective in certain situations, but regular shoes combined with water on the floor and being zapped with 50,000 volts is likely lethal.
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