Mal ,'Jaynestown'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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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.
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.
Is that the one where they all have to stay on the "path" when they sight-see in the past?
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....
eta: Actually, they go hunting. They shoot dinos that were about to snuff it anyway.
That story is what good sci-fi is all about. Simple, direct, mind-blowing.
Maybe, what they aren't showing is Jack, going around killing people who are supposed to die but who somehow have lived.
Then he'd kill Tru's brother, wouldn't he?
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.
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.
Because she may do things in the interim she wasn't supposed to do. Everyone's going to die anyway, right? If them dying later was good enough, he wouldn't have a job.