The problem with the balance idea is that I don't think that they've followed through with it -- could we see what people died because Tru prevented the deaths of other people?
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sumi - Apr 06, 2005 11:55:01 am PDT #833 of 10001
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§ ita § - Apr 06, 2005 11:57:07 am PDT #834 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
could we see what people died because Tru prevented the deaths of other people?
In my head, balance is intrinsic to the genre (Quantum Leap is about restoring it, right? Most time travel stories have the Butterfly Effect paranoia written right in...) and they mention it once, from the mouth of the bad guy, all season.
Hrmmph.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 06, 2005 12:05:04 pm PDT #835 of 10001
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Oh! that reminds me, I saw an article somewhere about an upcoming movie based on Ray Bradbury's time travel short story "A Sound of Thunder." Apparently it goes further in terms of the changes wrought by interference in the past, with history getting rewritten to disastrous effect each time someone meddles.
Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 12:08:17 pm PDT #836 of 10001
Visilurking
Is that the one where they all have to stay on the "path" when they sight-see in the past?
tommyrot - Apr 06, 2005 12:10:34 pm PDT #837 of 10001
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Is that the one where they all have to stay on the "path" when they sight-see in the past?
Yes. And a moth gets killed....
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Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 12:12:12 pm PDT #838 of 10001
Visilurking
That story is what good sci-fi is all about. Simple, direct, mind-blowing.
sumi - Apr 06, 2005 12:24:08 pm PDT #839 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Maybe, what they aren't showing is Jack, going around killing people who are supposed to die but who somehow have lived.
Wolfram - Apr 06, 2005 12:24:38 pm PDT #840 of 10001
Visilurking
Then he'd kill Tru's brother, wouldn't he?
sumi - Apr 06, 2005 12:27:10 pm PDT #841 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Maybe -- except that Tru's brother did die. . . . but (apparently) wasn't supposed to. Otherwise he wouldn't have spoken to Tru.
ARgh. It just doesn't make sense.
Vortex - Apr 07, 2005 7:06:03 am PDT #842 of 10001
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they talk about how he has to "preserve fate". my question is, if the person was meant to die, can't they die tomorrow? I mean, so she saves harbor patrol chick. why can't jack just have her die next week? she's still dead.