Talk:Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD 2/@comment-24328089-20170310001621/@comment-24328089-20170310062454

The most infuriating thing about it is that somebody will come along and say "Yeah, but no time travel movie really makes sense, because it's a fictional concept".

And that's so maddening because even though almost a majority of time travel movies insert this paradox, they really don't HAVE to. Days of Future Past and Star Trek: First Contact for example, don't have any of these paradoxes in them.

Time travel has so much potential as a plot element, but its so often bogged down by this nonsensical misuse.

The ontological paradox is the temporal equivalent of "the impossible trident" (Google that if you don't know what I'm referring to). It's cool to look at, for the sole reason that it cannot logically exist. But it makes no sense as part of a solid (story) structure.