At the beginning of series VII, in the episode Tikka to Ride, Lister explains that the crew cannot have died at the end of RDVI at the hands of their future selves as if they were dead, their future selves would not have existed in order to destroy their past selves in the first place (can't put it simpler than that!), however, at the end of the episode, after they scupper Lee Harvey Oswald's attempts at assassinating President Kennedy and realise that the US would have been a disaster had Kennedy lived, they persuade JFK from 1965 to become the man on the grassy knoll in 1963 and therefore assassinate himself so therefore, using the same logic as they used at the beginning of the programme, how could JFK assassinate himself in 1963 if he was dead by 1965 and could not feasibly have existed in order to assassinate himself in the past from the future? (If you can get past the reasoning in this question and manage to give a feasible answer to it, you deserve 5 stars in the first place!)
2007-01-25 02:42:27 · 11 answers · asked by Uncle Sid 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
If you had watched the episode more carefully, you would have realized that in the alternate universe, JFK was disgraced and sent to jail, not assassinated. It was this disgraced, but very much living, Kennedy who the Dwarfers convinced to become the gunman on the grassy knoll, therefore restoring the universe to it's former balance. Just as deleting their future selves eliminated them and saved them, they deleted the alternate universe...or something. Ask Holly!
2007-01-25 02:56:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming that time is a constant path. What has been, what is, what will be. If you think along the lines of time as a straight line but with splits at certain points then the logic of kennedy from the future killing kennedy from the past becomes plausible. Along one time line kennedy is killed, along another he lives.Therefore its easy for the kennedy who lived to return back along the time line and kill the kennedy who didn't. my head hurts, im off home now.
2007-01-25 02:54:21 · answer #2 · answered by GoreyAlan Fáilte 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The future JFK is from an alternative universe where he wasn't shot. Or something. It's just a TV programme, don't worry your pretty little head over it.
(Do I get extra patronising points?)
2007-01-25 02:50:57 · answer #3 · answered by Mad Professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it would end up being an ever lasting cycle of time, i.e JFK continually assassinating himself forever. A loop as it were, maybe, er now I'm thinking about too much!
2007-01-25 02:56:34 · answer #4 · answered by smudge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is actual worth getting series 7, yet for my area i do no longer think of this is as solid as series a million - 6 well-known. There are nevertheless some large episodes in it, fairly the 1st 2 "Tikka to holiday" and "Stoke me a Clipper" and the final one "Nanarchy". series 8 is extremely spectacular all the way although, and you will be able to desire to computer screen series 7 formerly that. So confident, get all of them. Their particularly worth it.
2016-11-01 06:14:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. Kennedy was a sailor not a soldier he missed. There have always been those who have maintained that there may have been a third shooter.
2007-01-25 02:52:46 · answer #6 · answered by Barry G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Dwarf was always doing this so don't worry about it and enjoy the programme.
2007-01-25 03:02:32 · answer #7 · answered by Will 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason Lister said what he said was because he is a smeghead!
2007-01-25 03:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a sit-com. It's not real.
2007-01-25 02:50:42 · answer #9 · answered by Bush 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go out more.
2007-01-25 02:49:43 · answer #10 · answered by judith white 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋