Abandoned AmericaI want a time travel movie where the protagonist goes back into the past to Make Things Right and spends the whole rest of the movie after the time jump in the bathroom because their stomach can't handle the microbes in the water and food
I want a time travel movie where they miscalculate the exact position of the earth at the time they are jumping to and wind up in space, or in the middle of the air, or embedded in rock
I want a time travel movie where the person winds up in the past but their money is worthless, they have no connections, and maybe they don't even speak the dialect. So they don't even get to the first step of their goal because all of the resources they'd need are out of their reach
Good point raised by @oschene, I'd also like to see a time travel movie where the traveler goes back, gives everyone a sickness they have no immunity to, and inadvertently wipes out half of the population of the world in their own time https://mastodon.social/@oschene/109684137829676882
Fardels Bear@AbandonedAmerica @oschene I sometimes think that the Ray Bradbury story where a time traveller steps on a butterfly in the Jurassic actually happened. Because we've certainly got the fascists coming out of the woodwork.
Monospark@AbandonedAmerica @oschene and the loop is, he’s coming from a future where a bug has started killing the population, goes back in time to stop it from happening but he is the contagion that caused it in the first place.
oschene@monospark @AbandonedAmerica ...and causes immunity in the surviving population? Writes itself.
Venomized Gamer 🎮@AbandonedAmerica @oschene 12 Monkeys??
@Mooncake @AbandonedAmerica Ooh, just read the Wikipedia entry. Yes. I should edit that to say, has written itself.
Greg Stolze@AbandonedAmerica @oschene I wrote a TTRPG scenario called SICK AGAIN where the protagonists are a CDC team entering a hot zone. They isolate the illness and even get to name it! Then, when they track it back to its ultimate source (a physics lab) they find a dead seven-foot tall woman with a tattoo stating she was inoculated in 2131 or something against the disease they named THAT DAY.
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mathew@AbandonedAmerica @oschene There's a Philip K. Dick short story where a time traveler goes into the future and brings something back that wipes out civilization.
Thomas@AbandonedAmerica You May enjoy the Graphic Novel Paper Girls, where the girls’ dialect is referred to as “Olde English” by the txt-tlking denizens of the distant future.
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@ThomasAEastman @AbandonedAmerica So good. Have you seen the Amazon TV version?
@BonehouseWasps @AbandonedAmerica Yes! It was great even if they never got to some of the high concept sci-fi. Adult Dylan is canon as far as I am concerned.
@ThomasAEastman @AbandonedAmerica I've not quite got around to finishing it yet. I am enjoying it though.
Sandy Cyborg 🇨🇦🍁@AbandonedAmerica There was a really good YuGiOh fanfiction about this where the main character ended up in Ancient Egypt. Dude was so scared of catching diseases and couldn't talk to anyone
Steve White@AbandonedAmerica
Those are just really short movies. Like when you watch a RomCom and go "Just tell him how you feel". They can't, because that'd be the end of the movie.
Those are just really short movies. Like when you watch a RomCom and go "Just tell him how you feel". They can't, because that'd be the end of the movie.
@stwhite well of course but just once it'd be nice to see someone buck the trend
Tom Pesch@AbandonedAmerica I want a time travel movie where the traveller goes back in time only to find that the atoms he/she was made of in the future are now scattered around the world.
Chel@AbandonedAmerica this is the time travel fiction we need tbh
Spike Holden@AbandonedAmerica love all these. Plus don't forget the earth moves in space so travelling back in time is likely to result in appearing in space
@spikeholden that was the second one 😉 https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/109684083542481689
Kinch045@AbandonedAmerica Or a (very short) time travel movie where the first good deed done in the past inadvertently nullifies the birth of the time traveller. Poof!
Hunter Gough 🍦🌹@AbandonedAmerica I've always thought there's a billion dollars to be made by some research junkie to write a whole series of "this is the book you will want to have on you if you accidentally find yourself transported to [insert decade or century here]" books.
For anything more than 200 years ago, it would mostly be survival tips, and how to live comfortably and avoid getting burned as a witch. For decades in the 20th century, it would mostly be stock and patent tips.
BleistifterinThis is your book then. Just translate it from German
https://www.rowohlt.de/buch/kathrin-passig-aleks-scholz-handbuch-fuer-zeitreisende-9783737100854
Diane Magras@AbandonedAmerica Language is what I always wonder about re: time travel stories, especially when they go to medieval times. In a lot of places in England (especially cultured or royal places), people spoke French—and not modern Parisian French!
HRB@AbandonedAmerica "The Man Who Came Early", Poul Anderson. Similar concept.
Fighting for DemocracySounds like "The Third Level"!
Scott the F is implicit Baxter@AbandonedAmerica You've really thought about this. I like that!
Betote@AbandonedAmerica That's a good chunk of "The Anubis Gates"' plot 🤓
mhoye
Christopher Biggs (@[email protected])
Time travel is actually quite easy to invent. Ridiculously easy. Far more people have the capacity to stumble over the knack of time travel than to comprehend the effect of the earth’s 30km/s orbital velocity in combination with the sun’s 250-odd kps galactic orbital motion. Interstellar space is LITTERED with inventors who discovered, briefly, that a flux capacitor recharges in just *slightly* more time than the length of time a human can hold their breath in vacuum.
@mhoye yes exactly!!
atomicfurball@AbandonedAmerica That would be a very short movie.
@atomicfurball nah you just do a 60 minute take of them screaming and then not.
@AbandonedAmerica you know I’ve often thought about that. In my movie you can only jump so far, in the same building where it’s exact location is known and calculated over time.
@monospark but even then: is the earth at the exact same point in it's rotation? Like, the EXACT same point? It probably never really is
@AbandonedAmerica all part of the calculation of course!
Bret Mogilefsky@AbandonedAmerica @monospark and relative to what!?
pinecones@AbandonedAmerica I think about this all the time with time travel.
Michael Gemar@AbandonedAmerica I want a time travel movie where, as the time machine is moving through time, everyone else just sees it, and the person inside, as moving very very very very very slowly. “What’s that?” “Oh, it’s just a guy named Fred in his time machine. Yeah, he’s been like that for 150 years, moving through time.”
@michaelgemar nice. I like this.
@AbandonedAmerica In the original movie The Time Machine, the protagonist is in the machine in his house and watches as it gradually decays around him and the landscape changes. I always wondered what the folks outside the machine thought of this dude just sitting there frozen for centuries.
@michaelgemar it's been so long since I read it I forgot about that
Nia Molinari@AbandonedAmerica Watch "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
@NiaMolinari I did. One of my favorite movies from the last year.
errg@AbandonedAmerica Or they get the coordinates right, but they don't exactly synchronize their speed to the speed of the surface of the earth at that point in space-time, so they get hit by a tree traveling 500 mph
@errg oh, yes. I love it
Al Steffen@AbandonedAmerica
There is even human development without the position of the earth. They get bedded in a hill that was shaved down to fill in a swamp or extend a shoreline.
There is even human development without the position of the earth. They get bedded in a hill that was shaved down to fill in a swamp or extend a shoreline.
@Zarabadoo yes exactly
Alan McConchie@AbandonedAmerica I think about this all the time
Kelsey Jordahl@AbandonedAmerica not to mention miscalculating the relative velocity of the Earth's rotation, orbit and proper motion of the solar system.
Matej Završnik@AbandonedAmerica In Star Trek TNG, a ship materialised inside an asteroid, half of it inside the rock, just not for time travel reasons but because the cloaking device malfunctioned. (If I remember correctly.)
AdmiralFrosty@AbandonedAmerica This happened in a Heavy Metal story from a year or so back. The guy has such an annoying ego that the research team sabotages the device, so the intrepid time travel gets embedded in a wall
Daniel Nazer@AbandonedAmerica With the earth moving around the center of the galaxy at about half a million miles an hour one has to assume that anyone traveling back in time has materialized in deep space and promptly died.
Uschi Kneeface@AbandonedAmerica In that case, you might enjoy "I'll Believe You" (2006).
It features Patrick Warburton. : ]
grilledcat@AbandonedAmerica It’s been a while since I watched it, but that may have been why in the tv show Seven Days they purposely shoot the time machine out into space and let it fall back to earth. Can’t remember if they explained it that way or not though.
@grilledcat oh nice, that's a good thought
Kit BashirChristopher Biggs (@[email protected])
Time travel is actually quite easy to invent. Ridiculously easy. Far more people have the capacity to stumble over the knack of time travel than to comprehend the effect of the earth’s 30km/s orbital velocity in combination with the sun’s 250-odd kps galactic orbital motion. Interstellar space is LITTERED with inventors who discovered, briefly, that a flux capacitor recharges in just *slightly* more time than the length of time a human can hold their breath in vacuum.
Morgan D@AbandonedAmerica If memory serves, this featured in the 1984 version of The Philadelphia Experiment: when the ship reappears, there are sailors embedded in the hull of the ship. Still gives me the creeps 😵💫