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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Actually, if they're 5th dimensional beings, that makes this entirely possible. The 5th dimension is a plain of reality where all possibilities within a given universe have likely happened. It's basically Murphy's Law as a dimension.

Yes, these 5th dimensional beings started from a single plain of existence as we perceive it, but who knows what happened in that plain? They could be from a plane of existence that didn't suffer from the Blight. Or maybe they were from this plane of reality where 99.99% of humanity died off and they managed to survive narrowly, and wishing for a better future for humanity than they received, they opened up the wormhole and thus formed another plain of reality where a large portion of humanity survives. They're 5th dimensional beings, to where this is actually not a paradox.