"The Allfarva is also Unifarva." <Vindris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I have come to dread stories with time travel in them at all. it is such
> an overused plot device and convenient fixall.
I disagree. Time travel stories are not always used to fix anything (as
in
damage to ship/crew). Sometimes they are just used as a time travel
story.
> They can do major anarchy and catastrophe for maximum dramatic effect,
> then 'rewind the tape' and reset the continuum and say 'it never really
> happened'.
That is one of the greatest aspects about time travel stories. They can
show you what could happen, as in how bad the ship/crew could be damaged,
without actually having to repair everything. To me, time travel episodes
are always "what if" stories, and I find them very interesting.
> There have been some good eps of time travel in series, but
> it has also been badly handled. I liked Andromeda in the early days
> because they seemed to be staying away from the premise a lot. when they
> did use it, it was pretty good [like the one where they go back and
> precipitate the battle of witch head],
Andromeda was based on time travel. Dylan Hunt and the Andromeda were
frozen in a black hole for over 300 years. That's not the "traditional"
way
to travel across time, but it worked. As for the first season of
Andromeda,
it had a couple of time travel episodes in it. The first was the episode
you spoke of, "Angel Dark, Demon Bright", and it was only the 6th episode
of
the series. Two episodes later, another time travel episode appeared, "The
Banks of the Lethe", where Dylan manages to talk to his fiancé.
> but in later seasons they started using it too much. At least BG hasn't
> used it [at least up to the ones
> i've seen]. i am only at the end of season two and am eagerly awaiting
> 3/25 and my DVD's of season three!
I admit I haven't watched Andromeda in sequence in quite a while, but I
don't remember them using time travel anymore then most sci-fi shows do.
As
for BSG, that's an entire different matter...
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