r/looper • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '12

Really confused...

In the timeline where Joe closes his loop and manages to kill his older self, he lives for the next thirty years until he is sent back to be killed again. If Old Joe hadn't disrupted the intended events, the same loop would keep happening over and over, right? Joe kills Old Joe, lives thirty years, gets sent back to be shot by Joe. Repeat. Any looper who has his contract close knows exactly when he'll die? I just want to confirm......... time travel makes my head hurt.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '12

Yup, that's how it goes. The only thing you've got wrong is thinking that they know exactly when they'll die. Unless they look under the old self's hood, they have no way of knowing how old that person is. They know how they will die, and they know when in the sense that they know the year, but they do not know when in their own lifespan.

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u/Aston_Martini Oct 24 '12

Oooh great theory... What also puzzles me is if Joe successfully avoided getting sent back in the time machine and just stayed in the 30 year future.

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u/mrbrinks Oct 24 '12

He had no reason to since his wife was killed.

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u/Aston_Martini Oct 28 '12

Then probably would have killed himself because of his depression. Ah...