How Will the NetFlix show "Travelers" Address the Time-Travel Problem/Solution Paradox?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 29, 2017 1:09pm CST
Although 'figuring out that these people are time-travelers' is what makes the first episode "fun," I'm not 'ruining it' because NetFlix 'lets you in on that secret' in the show's description.
http://awesomeonward.blogspot.com/2017/04/spoileralert-clearing-confusion-about.html
I've only seen the first episode, so all I know is 'they went back in time to save humanity or something'; but I'll watch a few more episodes to see if they deal with that problem/solution-paradox (they go back to solve the problem, so there's no problem in the future, so there's no reason to go back, so there's a problem, so they go back to solve the problem, so there's no ... etc. etc.)
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
29 Apr 17
I have messed with time travel in stories before. The only way I could make it work without the paradox is to have someone from the future go back into time of a parallel universe (since you can't change your own timeline without destroying yourself) and changing the events to prevent something, and then going forward in that time line. It sucks because you doom your original universe to its fate, but you get to save the one next to it and live in it too, since your being there wasn't influenced by that entire time string in any way.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Apr 17
hmmm ... Maybe Sam Beckett was thinking of that when he arranged it so he 'leaped around'---by changing one timeline & leaping from there to another & another & another & so-on, maybe you can leap from another timeline Back into your own! https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/1q9cbx/quantum_leap_theory/
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
30 Apr 17
@mythociate In Quantum Leap, he went into different people through history, but it was odd that he could do what he needed to while he was them. Especially with something like a famous pianist. That's just not something you'll reproduce easily. I think I saw one episode like that.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Apr 17
@OneOfMany but he did have a 'Swiss cheese'-memory ... he couldn't remember key information about his life (like--I think--the fact that he was married).
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@Hannihar (129482)
• Israel
18 May 18
@mythociate
I watched it and not so sure I liked it.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
18 May 18
Yeah, it got a little too "bureaucratic." There's just something more interesting about 'a lone time-traveler with previous government- or other group-ties.'
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