My first foray into the time travel scene was when watching Terminator 2, and it first got me thinking about the concept of paradoxes. At the end of T2, Arnie destroys Skynet. This means that Skynet cannot create the machines that eventually lead to the great war. This means that no Terminator is sent back to the past, which means that no Terminator destroys Skynet. If Skynet is still around, then the war can happen, and so on and so forth in a cyclical repetition of this paradox. From then on I loved time travel.
My favourite time travel story is H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (and the 1960 movie adaptation). What I love about this in particular is that the person who is going through time doesn't actually go anywhere; it's the world that moves around them. It's an amazing story, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
Another great time travel movie that I recommend is FAQ About Time Travel. It's a British sci fi comedy where the time machine is a men's bathroom (gotta love British humour). They play out the altering of the timeline and paradoxes wonderfully. Again, highly recommended.
Do you think that time travel is possible? Where in time would you go? List some of your favourite time travel stories below.
Not heard of that movie - I'll look for it.
ReplyDeleteTime travel repercussions can mess with the head. As Sarah Connor says at the end of The Terminator - "A person could go crazy thinking about this."
YES!!! My favorite of all movie genres. Time travel into the past is unlikely, but I hope not. And besides I think all things are possible so I won't discount it.
ReplyDeleteFavorite Time Travel TV show is Quantum Leap. It was such an unusual take on the subject and the stories were great. Then there was the wonderfully cheesy Time Tunnel--so silly and so much fun.
Have you seen the 2007 Spanish film Los Cronocrimenes (Time Crimes)? Great story concept that I understand is being remade in an English version with possibly David Croneberg directing. It's a great film for you to check out if you haven't seen it yet.
If I could go back in time, one of the things I would like to do is go back to the early 1800's and attend a concert of a Beethoven symphony or some other great musical milestone. Or perhaps witness a Shakespeare production at the Globe Theater. I would like to just immerse myself in the street scenes and social life of an era.
Really cool post! I could talk about this topic all night.
Lee
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I'd love to hear more of your "Ghost/time bending" thoughts. I've thought that many "ghosts" are more like 'recordings' on the ether, left by emotional trauma, like the standard 'Sea-Widow-staring-from-the-bluffs,' or violent crime re-enactments, as opposed to actual spirits. Not to discount actual spirits, but I think this explains some of the sightings. For the record, I thought of this before I heard it from Sylvia Brown :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one with these kinds of theories about time, hehe. My ghost/time idea is similar to yours, Will. An event that is particularly traumatic or powerful knocks that particular time lane about (I believe that every fragment of time is repeated indefinitely in its own lane, and to move through time we jump lanes - like Frogger). This disturbed lane sometimes knocks itself into a future lane, meaning that for that period of contact the timelines merge and we in the present see the images of the past (it can also happen that people in the past can see the 'ghosts' of the future in this way). it's pretty convoluted but i like it as theories go :D
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