More Time Travel, less serious

Once again, please allow me to get my geek on with some British sci-fi. This is Johnny Alpha; Strontium Dog, a character from 2000 AD. Alpha is a mutant and a bounty hunter in a post-nuclear apocalypse society. Mutants are feared and hated and bounty hunting is the only way most can make a (legal) living. It's mostly drawn by Carlos Ezquerra, who is just one of my favourite illustrators. His work is so distinctive and characterful.One of Alpha's weapons is the "time bomb". It is thrown like a grenade and creates a localised time travel effect. The victim (and a good sized chunk of whatever he was standing on) are transported a few minutes into the future... by which time the planet has moved on. Nasty. Also used at least once as an escape route, but they have to plan their trajectory pretty damn carefully.

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My favourite time travel movie is Time Bandits, mostly because it makes no attempt to deal with paradoxes, stable or otherwise, it just gets on with having fun. There's no unconvincing phlebotinum. Time travel works because the supreme being says it does. That may not make good science, but it certainly works in movies. Also, BEST. NAPOLEON. EVER.Mutate and Survive

Hi Tanypteryx, Absolutely! For me, it would have to be Ichthyosaurs. They must have been astounding. Graceful, beautiful and lethal. The very idea of a reptile being such a master of the waters blows my tiny mind.It's also a lovely example of convergent evolution.Mutate and Survive

Donnie Darko is often rated highly as a good time-travel movie. I haven't seen it, but it will go on my DEFINITE-list-of-movies-to-see.(From what I heard, in Costner's "The Postman" film, time nearly STANDS STILL. From the time it takes for the light proton traveling from the film reel to the screen, a typical movie goer would have finished his buttery-flavored popcorn, industrial drum-sized soda, slapped by his much-too-prudish date, and be back in his car driving home)

The book, The Postman, by David Brin is one of my favorites and much better than the movie. It takes place here in Oregon and uses real place names instead of fictitious places like in the movie. I do have to admit that the filming of guys riding horses and running along the rim of the Crooked River Gorge (not in the book) scared the crap out of me just watching the film. It is a really deep canyon!

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What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonYou can't build a Time Machine without Weird Optics -- S. Valley

And Plesiosaurs! Yep, convergence is great. Similar solutions many millions of years apart.

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What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonYou can't build a Time Machine without Weird Optics -- S. Valley

It was a good adventure story, but like many of Twain's stories it was also a social commentary on our society and on our (or his) view of the age of chivalry. I read it when I was about 10 or 11. I have always thought of it as a classic.

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What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonYou can't build a Time Machine without Weird Optics -- S. Valley

I've been busy with work, both in house and traveling, so I haven't had the time. Damn RL getting in the way of the important things! Yeah, I think you should watch it. Its a bit lovey-dovey, but good nonetheless.It was actually kinda funny 'cause my GF self proclaims a dislike for sci-fy, but she really liked this movie... and I was all: this is total sci-fy, babe. But she wasn't havin' any of it. Dude... jet-packs... speeder-bikes... flying cars! (see my avatar) No, I'm all in it for the fun... and the lulz, just because everything is for the lulz.

Well, there's this: and then there's THIS:

I dont know if anyone has brought it up yet but I would like to elect Rod Serling as the master of time travel.What impressed me the most about his series, especially the time travel ones was the dialogue and verbage used in those episodes and many others. No one that I have seen since has been able to capture your attention or turn a phase like Rod and his writersThe one that comes to mind immediately is the Episode, "No time like the Past", where the individual is at the table haveing a debate with another local for that time period, concerning matters of the future. In which he verbally demolishes the other fellowAt some point, his partner in time travel assures him that the past is, "inviolate"The master displays his genius by demonstrating that while trying to stop the fire which he knew about ahead of time, was actually caused by himself to begin withHad he never traveled, there would have never been a fire to preventAnywho my favorite series is and always will be the The Zone. It has not been matched sinceFavorite episodes in order are:'Walking Distance'. Absolute favorite of all time. Favorite line. "one summer to a customer"'One hundred yards over the Rim'.'The Changing of the Guard'"Back There"Close second: "Obsolete Man" 'Deaths Head Revisited', Masterfully doneBut then the space ones are cool alsoLeast favorite espisode. 'Mr Mcbeevy'. Not only is it my least favorite, it was the most painful to watch. Watching him slde down that stairwell rail only to hit a huge post at the end, must have been painful for even the stuntmanIve seen so many Movies that are clear highjacks of his workYeah I know its lame by you fellas standards but is simply the best show ever on television, excluding the Stooges perhapsDawn BertotEdited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.Edited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.Edited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.

That reminds me of the TV series Early Edition. The hero gets tomorrow's newspaper today and tries to prevent the bad events from happening. He inevitably finds out that it's harder to change the future than he thought. Cause and effect isn't always simple.Edited by ringo, : Spellin.

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"It appears that many of you turn to Hebrew to escape the English...." -- Joseppi

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
Rod SerlingYep, I'll agree, Rod Serling was a very good writer. It is unclear just how much of his screenplay drafts of "Planet of the Ape"'s showed up on the silver screen, but the twist ending seemed to be his:Page not found - Rod Serling Memorial Foundation

It felt more like XKCD's representation to me.http://cache.gawker.com/.../movie_narrative_charts_large.jpgTTFN,WK

The other day I was in the store getting some paint and the young fellow behind the counter, very talkative, about 18 said he was in school for criminal justice, i replied that is nice.The irony, I said to him, was that he looked like someone one the opposite side of the law and i said you would be a good undercover agent. to which he said he wants to work for the FBI.Somehow the conversation turned to legalization of Pot, to which he agreed and I disagreed. We talked very nicely for a long while on the topicFor some reason dragnet poped in my head, specifically the episode Where Joe and Bill spent the whole espisode with the college teacher guru, debating the use of drugs. One of the best episodes I have ever seen and a good debate to boot.Anywho, when i brought up dragnet I saw a blank look on his face and i asked if he had ever seen it and he said i have never heard of itRingo are you unaware of the series or just that particular episode?I would recomend the series to anyone for the dialogue alone. The table debate in that one is excellent, 'No time like the past'I love the phraseology, "Where I will have to endure another one of your vacuous speeches"I saw the previews for early addition a long time ago and told myself I will watch that, but of course i forgot. thanks for reminding meDawn BertotEdited by Dawn Bertot, : No reason given.

Grrrr i wanted to poste that i just saw one of the first episodes of that series, on some channel, what happend to that show anyway i remember watching it a long time ago