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* Okay. Originally when I first watched this, [[Fridge Logic]] made me wonder why, if Lewis saying "I will never invent you" changed the future to the point where Doris ceased to ever exist, why all of the "Robinson Family future" didn't fall apart as soon as he said he wasn't going to fix the memory scanner. But then, I realised they have, in fact, justified this with the foot-slip you hear in the very first part of the movie, as that shows us that ''the version of time that we're watching'' is the version where Lewis gives up and Wilbur Robinson goes back in time to fix things, assumedly a [[Stable Time Loop]] of sorts -- essentially, Lewis saying "I won't fix this" didn't change the future because that decision -- the decision to give up and not fix the scanner, forcing Wilbur to try and fix things -- is the decision that brought about the future that we see. HOWEVER, if this is so, then Bowler Hat Guy's (and by extension, Doris's) existence is necessary to force Wilbur Robinson back in time to bring about the future that we see, so declaring that he'd never invent Doris should have destroyed Lewis's "Robinson Family Future" as well, by ensuring that Bowler Hat Guy would never initiate the time travel that forces Lewis to try again with his memory scanner. A [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] indeed.

** WAIT. I'm having second thoughts. If Doris didn't exist, then no one would have been there to mess up his scanner the first time, so the future would, indeed, happen as Lewis had first seen it -- but none of the time travel would've happened! (Meaning he shouldn't remember it, for one thing -- meaning he might create Doris after all -- augh, [[Temporal Paradox]]!)

** Probably should just go with "he's stupid". Really, this troper got the feeling that Wilbur was pretty much that dumb kid who screwed up and made an even bigger mess trying to fix it, completely oblivious to the far easier solutions available. Only, you know, [[Recycled in Space|IN THE FUTURE!]]

** I think it's because it wouldn't have worked anyway. The time-machine exists outside of time. Because it was already taken in the future, going back to prevent it from being taken is impossible, because it no longer exists in just that time. It's now in a different time as well. Or something. Time machines are difficult >.>

** It seems to switch to a past, the signing period, that has the seemingly uncaused(?) Doris in it, as well as a time-transplanted Bowler Hat Guy. Doris brings about the bad future.

* When Lewis first sees the time machine, he says something like: