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.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 06, 2005 12:05:04 pm PDT #835 of 10001
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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
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
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
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2005 7:07:01 am PDT #843 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
-t - Apr 07, 2005 7:11:08 am PDT #844 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I mean, so she saves harbor patrol chick. why can't jack just have her die next week? she's still dead.
That occurred to me, too, Vortex. Expecially since he had a date with her. I guess he wants to avoid murder charges, though.
The whole fate thing is troubling for me - if it's fate, it happens. I'm okay with there being a way that things are "supposed to be" I just wish they wouldn't call it fate if it needs all this help.