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sasha_featherDay 10 - Share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
I love time travel stories. There is the fish-out-of-water element: the feeling of not being at home in a different time, and of having to adapt, sometimes very rapidly, to new situations. There is the fantasy of visiting the far future and seeing how technology and humanity are faring, or visiting the far past and discovering new things about it. There is the conundrum about wether the past can be changed, and if so, how much? Does a ripple (or butterfly being killed), change the future drastically, or does time have a "self-healing" element, where things tend to revert back to a sort of baseline? This intersects closely with multiple universes.
Some of my favorite examples:
The Terminator franchise: the idea of falling in love across time is romantic, and does interesting things with the idea of family. What was it like for John Connor, to be a mentor to his own biological father? What is it like for Sarah Connor, desperately trying to prevent the apocalypse, and also prepare her son to be a great leader? "There is no fate" is her motto.
Travelers (tv show): Similarly, these time travelers are trying to prevent a disaster. Their actions change the future, as reported by new travelers arriving; they struggle with knowing what the right actions are. They care, a lot.
Back to the Future: I watched these a lot as a kid-- mostly the 1st and 3rd installments. Weird how these movies predicted that Biff would become president in a certain timeline... and how that came true.
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure: this is an extremely silly movie that my brother watched practically every weekend.
I also enjoy "Star Trek" time travel episodes and the movie "the journey home".
I love time travel stories. There is the fish-out-of-water element: the feeling of not being at home in a different time, and of having to adapt, sometimes very rapidly, to new situations. There is the fantasy of visiting the far future and seeing how technology and humanity are faring, or visiting the far past and discovering new things about it. There is the conundrum about wether the past can be changed, and if so, how much? Does a ripple (or butterfly being killed), change the future drastically, or does time have a "self-healing" element, where things tend to revert back to a sort of baseline? This intersects closely with multiple universes.
Some of my favorite examples:
The Terminator franchise: the idea of falling in love across time is romantic, and does interesting things with the idea of family. What was it like for John Connor, to be a mentor to his own biological father? What is it like for Sarah Connor, desperately trying to prevent the apocalypse, and also prepare her son to be a great leader? "There is no fate" is her motto.
Travelers (tv show): Similarly, these time travelers are trying to prevent a disaster. Their actions change the future, as reported by new travelers arriving; they struggle with knowing what the right actions are. They care, a lot.
Back to the Future: I watched these a lot as a kid-- mostly the 1st and 3rd installments. Weird how these movies predicted that Biff would become president in a certain timeline... and how that came true.
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure: this is an extremely silly movie that my brother watched practically every weekend.
I also enjoy "Star Trek" time travel episodes and the movie "the journey home".
I'm with you
Date: 2018-01-21 12:53 am (UTC)It's an excellent trope to point out the ridiculousness of the social rules we or they follow. (See Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
Also, Continuum is Another Canadian Time Travel show. Not as nifty as Travelers but still something to watch.
Re: I'm with you
Date: 2018-01-21 06:21 pm (UTC)Time travel has a lot to say about free will which is pretty great.
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Date: 2018-01-31 08:16 pm (UTC)