Timeline for Why didn't the algorithm detonate when Kat killed Sator?
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 19:00 | comment | added | clyf | @MovieMe - That interpretation is not supported by the line "But in the future, those in power clearly believe that you can kick Grandpa down the stairs, gouge his eyes and slit his throat without consequence.", assuming we interpret "killing Grandpa" as the entropic destruction of the present and "consequence" as the concurrent entropic destruction of the future. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 15:33 | comment | added | MovieMe | @galacticninja - the conversation about The Grandfather Paradox indicates clearly that the destruction of the world is planned in a time before the time of the Future people. Triggering the end of the world in a past time is not surviving. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 7:03 | comment | added | galacticninja | …Related dialogue (emphasis mine): "Now time itself switches direction. The same sunshine we basked in will warm the faces of our descendants' generations to come." "How could they wanna kill us?" "Because their oceans rose and their rivers ran dry… They have no choice but to turn back." "Each generation looks out for its own survival." "That's exactly what they're doing." Those lines suggest that survival (and not revenge or suicide) is the main goal of the people in the future. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 7:03 | comment | added | galacticninja | "They want revenge, not just suicide." Neither of those are the main goal of the people in the future. They are fighting to save their world, whose environment is so degraded it can barely support life, so "suicide" is definitely out of the picture. Sator himself detonating the algorithm in his present does not make sense from that perspective… | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 6:41 | comment | added | galacticninja | @Greendrake Yes, but that's the information that the Tenet team based their operation on. (Which is why Kat preventing Sator from killing himself is just the "backstop" and not the main part of the operation.) On the other hand, there is no line of dialogue in the film that suggests that Sator is to be the one that detonates the algorithm. It is not sure if Sator even knows how to detonate the algorithm. Sator's line: "Somewhere, sometime, a man in a crystalline tower throws a switch…" suggests that it is not himself that will trigger the algorithm. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 5:49 | comment | added | Greendrake | @galacticninja I think "probably" is the keyword in what Neil said. He does not know it for sure. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 3:57 | comment | added | galacticninja | According to Neil, Sator's fitness tracker is (emphasis mine): "...linked to a switch, probably a simple e-mail burst that reveals the location of the dead drop, set to fire if his heart stops." | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 3:05 | history | edited | MovieMe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2021 at 3:03 | comment | added | MovieMe | @galacticninja Hmm fare point. But If there is a timer anyway, what purpose does sator's fitness tracker perform? That algorithm would have been buried in case. Looks like Sator's tracker then triggers a minor fuse which causes the algorithm to cause a nuclear Armageddon. Updated answer. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 2:45 | comment | added | galacticninja | "Sator's tracker is connected to this minor detonator. When he dies, the explosion does happen." I believe this is incorrect. In the cavern, a digital timer was shown. The bomb detonation was triggered by this timer. Note that when Kat killed Sator, the Protagonist and Ives are still in the cave. The bomb only exploded (sealing the cave) after the timer ran out. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 2:31 | history | answered | MovieMe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |