Trunks didn't change the settings so it went back to where it came from. If he did, he would've ended up creating another timeline.ABED wrote:How did he make it go back to HIS future? That's my point. Time travel is an inherently illogical idea. All this talk about time travel reminds me of this scene from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Meekrolo2 wrote:I don't see the problem of him going back. When he interfered with the past he split the time line and made it go back to its original one later.ABED wrote:The time travel mechanics weren't screwed up by Cell. Trunks somehow went back to the future of HIS timeline even after he changed the past. The mechanics of time travel will never work. There's always an issue.
What I don't get is how two separate future timelines even exist to spawn two separate altered timelines from. Some people say Cells is the original one but that wouldn't work since he'd wreck the past so much by showing up and eating 17 & 18 that there's no way the Earth would survive long enough to end up in a similar apocalyptic future.
Austin Powers: Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967... presumably, I could go visit my frozen self. But if I'm still frozen in 1967... how could I have been unthawed... in the Nineties and traveled back-- Oh, no, I've gone cross-eyed.
Basil Exposition: I suggest you don't worry about this sort of thing... and just enjoy yourself. (Breaking the fourth wall) That goes for you all, too.
I don't know why Austin powers is relevant here, it's a comedy so it doesn't really matter if the time travel is wonky, it's not taking itself seriously the way the Cell arc is and fails at it.