re: Interstellar - things you LOVED and HATED about this movie

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I can't fault the 5th dimensional being nonsense too much but it's pretty much an Aladdin's lamp ending. The "evolution" of 5th dimensional beings (whatever that means) is dependent upon them traveling back from the future, after they have "evolved" into being and then causing the event that allows their evolution? Right. Why not just go a little further back and kill the "blight" when it first appears?

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that would make for a paradox since they evolved from that reality

Your unhappiness about a deus ex machina ending is kinda fair but the difficulty with forward looking science fiction is being able to predict what beings that far beyond our understanding would be like or capable of doing. Nolan could have written a bad ending but then the 5th dimensional human descendants would have had to be either not human descendants or somehow able to reach across alternative universes