{"id":2653,"date":"2010-03-10T06:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T10:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2010-03-10T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T10:58:40","slug":"temporal-anomalies-in-popular-time-travel-movies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/temporal-anomalies-in-popular-time-travel-movies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

For example, it is not possible to return to the past without changing the past in some way; nor is it possible\u00c2\u00a0to change the future based on information from the future.\u00c2\u00a0 Doctor Who realized early on that changes to history were hazardous, and avoided them assiduously.\u00c2\u00a0Movies built on a time travel theme frequently become dissatisfying when the thread of time is closely examined.\u00c2\u00a0 In\u00c2\u00a0Millennium<\/a>, once the era in which the time machine exists is destroyed, aren’t all of those rescued survivors returned to their own times?\u00c2\u00a0 In\u00c2\u00a0The Twelve Monkeys<\/a>, doesn’t it appear that the disaster which the main character was to prevent <\/span><\/p>\n

would not have happened had he not interfered?\u00c2\u00a0 In Timecop, would any of that have happened had it not happened?\u00c2\u00a0 Even the venerable\u00c2\u00a0StarTrek<\/a> has created numerous anomalies which it has failed to resolve.\u00c2\u00a0 Pasts which are dependent upon futures dependent upon those pasts should make us cringe.\u00c2\u00a0 However, from time to time something works.\u00c2\u00a0 This web page will attempt to examine some of the best examples of these, beginning with\u00c2\u00a0Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For example, it is not possible to return to the past without changing the past in some way; nor is it possible\u00c2\u00a0to change the future based on information from the future.\u00c2\u00a0 Doctor Who realized early on that changes to history were hazardous, and avoided them assiduously.\u00c2\u00a0Movies built on a time travel theme frequently become dissatisfying […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[99,47,8,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}