WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for Time Cut (2024)!Netflix’sTime Cuthas a bittersweet conclusion for Lucy Field (Madison Bailey), but the logistics of her final timeline decision ultimately don’t make sense. When Lucy is introduced in 2024 asTime Cut’s main character, her voiceover reveals that she’s a scientifically-minded teen whose family life has always been strained due to the death of her older sister, Summer, in 2003. However, when she accidentally uses a time machine to travel back to the days before Summer’s 2003 murder by the Sweetly Slasher,Lucy finds that she prefers life in this era with Quinn and Summer by her side.
After Lucy takes theSweetly Slasher (Future Quinn)back to 2024 with her and kills him, she realizes that her 2003 timeline interference has now prevented her birth. Lucy either could have stayed in 2024, where her family doesn’t know who she is, or returned to 2003 to live out her life with the now-surviving Summer, even though she technically doesn’t exist there. The best decision for Lucy’s happiness was to stay with Summer and Quinn in 2003, butthere are still some problems with her fate and her second trip back to 2003 thatTime Cutdoesn’t properly explain.
How Did Lucy Get A NASA Internship If She Doesn’t Even Exist In The 2003 Timeline?
NASA Seemingly Didn’t Check The Identity Of Their Accepted Applicant
Netflix’sTime Cutmovie endsalmost exactly as it began, with Lucy giving a voiceover narration regarding her application to NASA. While Lucy was applying to the NASA internship in 2024, the final moments of the movie reveal that she was later accepted to the NASA internship in 2003 upon returning to that timeline. However, the fact that she was accepted in 2003 doesn’t make any sense.Lucy doesn’t actually exist in 2003, so it’s unclear how she was able to apply without any social security number, address, or some sort of source of identification.
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In its runtime of an hour and a half, Time Cut plays many songs that immerse viewers into its mid-aughts timeline and effectively instill nostalgia.
Sure, online tech is more advanced and the ability to certify someone’s identity through the internet is much easier in 2024, but one would think that a scientific government organization like NASA could still accomplish that in 2003.Lucy seemingly doesn’t still have the time machine in 2003 to prove to NASA that she’s from 2024, and, even if she did, a lot more flags would be raised about her existence outside of giving her an internship. Plus, as a further nitpick, it makes no sense for Lucy to send her personal statement to NASAaftershe was already accepted.
Did Lucy Ever Tell Her Parents Who She Is?
Lucy Remains In 2003, But Do Her Parents Believe The Truth About Her?
Another aspect ofTime Cut’s ending that makes little sense is the fact that Lucy is still living in town and seems to hang out with Summer, Quinn, and Emmy all the time, yet there’s no confirmation about where she’s living. Since Lucy is writing her response to NASA in a room, it seems as if she’s living back at her old house with Summer rather than on Quinn’s boat. She’s even seen having dinner with her parents, so itseems likely that Lucy ended up telling them who she was, even though they’ll never have her in this timeline.
When Lucy traveled back to 2024 with Future Quinn, the time machine zapped to the future with her, which is how she was still able to return to 2003.
Netflix’shorror sci-fi movieleaves a lot of loose ends untied, and one certainly has to do with Lucy telling others the truth about herself being from a future that no longer exists. In order for Lucy to prove that she exists,she’ll have to get everyone, including her parents and the government, to believe in time travel. But, that still won’t help Lucy in theTime Cut’s new timeline with obtaining a birth certificate, social security number, or other official documents she’ll need in her future life.
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A teenage girl goes back in time to the early 2000s to save her sister from a dangerous killer.
