Originally Posted by
Habis
Whatever the writer wants, I guess. No matter how you do it, you would be creating a paradox:
-If Rachel comes back and prevents her own birth but she survives as an anomaly, that's a paradox.
-If she gets erased but the effects of what she has done (including memories of her) remain, that's a paradox too.
-If if she gets erased and the effects of what she has done get erased too, then in theory, she couldn't have prevented her own birth, so she wouldn't get erased, so she would be back, so she did prevent her own birth, so she would get erased, so she couldn't have prevented her own birth....etc., repeat ad infinitum...