Treatment of time travel

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2005)

By Donnie breaking a cycle (being killed by the engine from the plane his mother is on) the sequence of events resulting in his mother needing to be on the plane wouldn't exist (Jim Cunningham not being exposed and so on). This would cause a minor alteration in the time line of the tangent universe. If Donnie is not alive to expose Jim Cunningham then his mother will not be on the plane (family life would change greatly with the loss of a son, this could mean a hiatus on sparkle motions trip) thereby his mother would be in the house when the engine drops, if it drops at all. If you are to repair a fault in time, shouldn't the "plug" in the time line be a method that ultimately allows for a seamless cycle of continuous reparation, otherwise the fix will work for one pass but the resources to continue to maintain that fix will no longer be available and in fact will be a slightly different problem, (this time Donnies mother will be in the house). This all of coarse is crap if you consider maybe the fault arises merely due to Donnie existing (???)