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.