Time Travel - Question for Patrons!
Added 2020-04-02 13:14:10 +0000 UTCMy next video is going to be about my favourite Sci-Fi trope, Time Travel! Specifically about the different ways media tells Time Travel stories. Each movie or TV show has different methods and specific do-and-don't rules so I'm interesting in exploring them further.
I'm currently working on the script, but in the meanwhile, what are your favourite instances of time travel?
It can be from a movie, tv show, cartoon, whatever! It can be from a piece of media that's specifically about time travel or something where time travel is just a one-off like an episode of Star Trek or something.
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Oh, I loved arrival (watch it of you havent) sadly putting it here is a spoiler. Has quite an interesting take on time travel.
Matthew Smith
2020-04-04 00:52:47 +0000 UTCThere's a great episode of Gravity Falls featuring Time Travel. In "The Time Traveler's Pig," after Robbie puts ice on the black eye Dipper accidentally gave Wendy, he uses this as an opportunity to ask Wendy out on a date. Dipper then seeks out a way to do the moment over and avoid hitting Wendy. He and Mabel confront Blendin Blandin, whom Dipper blames for the incident, as the two bumped into each other when Dipper was trying to bring Wendy some ice, and learn that Blendin has just the device Dipper seeks. They steal the time machine and travel back to earlier that day, Dipper so he can fix his error and Mabel so she can relive winning Waddles, and do so again each time Dipper messes up the throw. While Mabel helps Dipper carry out his complicated throw, Pacifica wins Waddles instead, which causes Mabel to panic and ask to go back in time again. Dipper denies his sister her request, and the two fight for control of the device, traveling the various moments of history, including pioneer times, the distant future, etc. Once they return to the present in which Dipper has avoided hitting Wendy and Mabel lacks Waddles, the twins continue to fight for a bit before Mabel goes into a depression which, as shown in Dipper's travel to the future, she does not apparently recover from. Not wanting to see his sister heartbroken, Dipper goes back to the day of the Mystery Fair so Mabel can win her pig, sacrificing Wendy's affections in the process. Mabel thanks him profusely, and the twins and their new pet are met by Blendin, who is angry due to Dipper and Mabel stealing his time machine. At that moment, the Time Paradox Avoidance Enforcement Squadron arrives to arrest Blendin, who is charged with Dipper's and Mabel's violation of the Time Traveler's Code of Conduct. Blendin tries to explain as agents Lolph and Dundgren take him away, but they do not believe him (most likely because he said that Waddles was the twins' leader). Back in the future, the Time Baby sends Blendin back to fix the anomalies.
Alyx Weston
2020-04-04 00:10:55 +0000 UTCMy weirdest favourite is Bill and ted's excellent adventure! It's so brilliant and dumb at the same time, also young Keanu reeves.
Alyx Weston
2020-04-03 23:57:46 +0000 UTCI liked the idea of paradoxes in back to the future, liked the time travel concept in Avengers: Endgame and Futurama was a good concept as well. Project Almanac had a good sense of time travel but its camera work was sloppy and the plot was poorly made. I like the T.A.R.D.I.S. from Doctor Who as well.
mynameismyface
2020-04-03 19:56:31 +0000 UTCA pretty dark take on Time Travel is the butterfly affect, where he travels back in time to moments in his life where he blacked out, and he can control his younger self to do something different, and every time he comes back, something is different. For the people that have not seen it, I will not spoil it, but it is dark and sad. For my next trick, I will bore you with my take on Time Travel; Time travel is fixed, its based upon actions and consequences, so just say if i slap you, you might want to go back in time to stop me, however you couldn’t because if you did, your past self would have no reason to go back in time BUT THATS WHERE I THINK PARALLEL WORLDS COME IN! If you think you have went back in time and changed something, it’s actually destiny (and history) for you to do that, because what you done in the past, has set in motion the consequences of today!
James Hogarth
2020-04-02 18:16:47 +0000 UTCI knew it was one of them
MrTof
2020-04-02 17:44:46 +0000 UTCThe thing I like about most of Futurama's time travel is that it's not as straightforward as "a machine that allow us to go back and forth as much as we want". In the Globetrotters episode, it was objects based on Chronon and kept skipping through time. Roswell was a 1 in a billion event with the explosion of a sun and Fry putting popcorn in the microwave, Professor built a machine that only goes forward but accidentally falls to make it go further than intended, and another one he makes just loops 10 seconds before, like a better version of tiktok. Also one instance in Red Dwarf where they travel to the 14th century but then realise they are still stranded in the same point in space. Rules like these fascinate me more than the actual time travel itself, if you use a time machine for a story, give it a rule that can give the story device a character in its own right, even Back to the Future it used one of the most unreliable but coolest looking cars, which was a character in how it always breaks down.
Daniel & Alex
2020-04-02 15:42:27 +0000 UTCMy favourite time travel series is definitely Doctor Who. One of my favourite time travel bits in it is the tenth Doctor's interactions with Queen Elizabeth the first. When we first see his interactions with her in series 3 episode 2 she hates the doctor and tries to kill him and he doesn't know why but later is shown in the episode 'the day of the doctor' he marries her but we never find out why she know hates him now. Also in the episode 'the beast below' Liz 10 who is a member of the royal family makes a reference to the doctor bedding queen Elisabeth the 1st and calls him a 'dirty boy' which I think is cool.
christopher
2020-04-02 15:34:09 +0000 UTCI really love the Impossible Times series of books. They use the many worlds hypothesis of time travel. It's told from the perspective of the younger person who's futrure self has come back to make sure that things happen roughly as he remembers them and can't deviate from what he tells his younger self too much otherwise he'd no longer be in his own timeline.
Sethzard
2020-04-02 14:19:27 +0000 UTCThat's a good point. It's used quite a lot to make a satisfying moment that makes everything 'click'. It has to make sense but maybe it's a general theme for humans because a lot of the funniest comedy sets also tend to have a joke they say near the start that they reference later on or at the end. Also poems and stories that make you reevaluate what you read as the last sentence either links to the start or reveals a new bit of information that sheds new light on everything.
Matthew Smith
2020-04-02 13:41:11 +0000 UTCI think the best use in old sci-fi shows were their usage as "what-ifs" or messing around with the shows favourite characters. Like the episodes from stargate or star trek to fix either crappy futures or a chance to have the characters in a funny situations (I.e. 1960s for stargate). I guess in a way the holo-suite episodes are pseudo-time travel. It focuses less on how events can affect the future but kind of to put them into the time period. I'm a bit stargate fan, so those are my favourite and numerous. I mean, stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Time_travel has a table with a lot of entries. SG1 "window of opportunity" uses a groundhog day- esk mechanic. SGA: "The last man" is a good one for being flung into the future.
Matthew Smith
2020-04-02 13:36:58 +0000 UTCGood choices! The Comic Relief Doctor Who spoof was written by Steven Moffat BTW
Jack D. Evans
2020-04-02 13:34:26 +0000 UTCGreat topic! I’m looking forward to that. I think my favourite time travel trope is when characters cause events that create a loop. In Futurama when Fry is his own Grandfather. In Red Dwarf, Lister is his own father that abandoned himself as a baby under a snooker table in a bar, in a box with the word ‘Ouroboros’ on it, creating a loop. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Harry and Hermione have to avoid their past selves to save Buckbeak. I also like the idea of the original Planet of the Apes movies acting out as a loop, when at the end of ‘Beneath...’ the earth is destroyed, but Zira and Cornelius travel back in time in ‘Escape...’ give birth to an intelligent baby ape, are both killed and then the baby ape, Caesar grows up to be the ape that starts the uprising against mankind in ‘Conquest...’. I also really like the Twin Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall gag in Back to the Future.
Jack D. Evans
2020-04-02 13:32:42 +0000 UTCAngel not angle
MrTof
2020-04-02 13:20:15 +0000 UTCBack to the future is always a good one, the Doctor Who episode where he talking to the girl through a DVD extra, the first Angle episode with David Tennant, Bill and Teds bogus journey with the Good Bill and Ted vs The Bad Bill and Ted and The Robot Bill and Ted, the Doctor Who Comic relief with Rowan Atkinson, where they kept going back to set more elaborate traps, (did you know that was written by Russel T Davis before he got the job) sorry rambling now, keep up the funny dude
MrTof
2020-04-02 13:19:56 +0000 UTC
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