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The Allfarva is also Unifarva. <Vindris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I have come to dread stories with time travel in them at all. it is such
>an overused plot device and convenient fixall.
>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'. 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], 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!
>
Yes, I've been saying the same thing. When Heroes came out and people
raved about it, I said, "Does it have time travel? Because if it does,
I probably don't want to watch it." And they said, "Yes, but it's
really good, so watch it." And I did, and the first season was good,
but by the 2nd season they had fallen into the time travel trap. It
becomes impossible to make it work when you have to ask, "how would
time travel fit into this" for anything in the plot involving the two
time travellers.
Star Trek: Enterprise went way over the top to the point of being
ridiculous.
I have heard that RDM has declared "no time travel" in BSG. Which is
good if he sticks to it. In particular, it's interesting because we
have this "cycle of time" them. Time travel is a convenient way to
explain prophecies and cycles, and without time travel you have to work
a lot harder, which is good. What it implies is that if the prophecies
are not coming back from the future, then somebody must be making them
happen, must be pushing the cycle.
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