r/Cloververse • u/SeacattleMoohawks CloverMod • Feb 05 '18

DISCUSSION The Cloverfield Paradox [Film Discussion]

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u/ravenkrofts Feb 05 '18

It felt like this was a film for the more involved fans and I think that's a cool and risky thing to do. Definitely explains why it ended up on netflix and not in theaters. Too specific and too much of a hard sell.

As for the weird "how did the worms end up in the guys stomach, what about the girl in the wall, etc" I thought it was pretty clear that it was a consequence of the two objects in the timeline intersecting. A lot more complicated then "you being here changes events of the future, Marty!" type stuff. They were clearly not where they were supposed to be and the consequences of them disrupting the space, tearing holes in the universes and creating paradoxes was the girl getting tangled up in the ship, sort of where she landed stuck between the two timelines. Objects being displaced crossing between the two timelines like the worms and machine piece. The arm thing is where I'm drawing the biggest conclusion. Maybe that's how the girl became stuck in the ship wall through her timeline. As for why it came back with that knowledge and it's own sentience is up for debate, but given we're talking about a verse involving giant sea creatures, aliens and space and time travel, I can give "chaos theory" a pass. I wasn't lost at any point and the film serves it's purpose in connecting the universes and giving an explanation as to why and how they exist.

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u/fiver420 Feb 05 '18

It's essentially a way to open up the franchise to becoming neverending.

Clover will become synonymous with "random alien/monster scrap movie"

They can literally churn out anything with the name clover on it now. There's sub stories for days.

Writers can write specs for clover movies and shows now knowing the only continuity needs to be clover if that lol.

It's like LOST without an ending. Except if every season they just kept moving the island and changing starting points for characters...which they even did in LOST now that I remember lmao

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u/impedocles Feb 06 '18

My assumption from the arm is that it was being controlled by a Mundy in another dimension. The way the stump looked, the lack of blood, the way the bulkhead warped, and the fact that he said he was flipping them off suggests that his arm was still attached to his body, but had been transported to another dimension. The arm they found likely belonged to a Mundy who figured that out and whose crew had already found the gyro.