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Splitting from the sequels thread, I want to hear everyone's suggestions for the best and worst time travel stories they've ever seen, heard, or read. And why. They could be movies, episodes of a given series, books, comics, etc.
Timline was okay enough I bought the video well after reading the book.
The Final Count Down as pretty good.
That one with the black comic. I should remember at least his name, but it is evading me right now. It was interesting.
That Bruce Campbell movie, like his others, were at the lower end of so-so.
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Terminator, while bad, did have a good premise. Terminator 2 was much better, though it takes some convolution to make the time travel make sense after the first one. Primer was excellent. And just in case anyone is interested:
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"The Visitor" Deep Space Nine "Visionary" Deep Space Nine "Trials and Tribblations" Deep Space Nine (not really for the time travel twist - but it was done for the best of reasons and was fun).
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I remember a time travel story where someone goes back in time and kills Hitler which somehow changed enough events to allow the Germans to win WW1 and take it out on the Frenchies which led to an embittered youth named Charles DeGualle to become a ruthless dictator and commit genocide while starting WW2.
Ken Chalker wrote "Downtiming the Nightside" which had some pretty twisted premises.
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Final Countdown, IMHO, had no plot. It was simply "Hey, there's a storm. It pulled us back to Pearl Harbor 1941! Wow, there's that storm again. Hey, we're back home."
I liked the Back to the Future stories. Especially part 2. I think it worked well within its own continuity. The Bill and Ted movies were like that as well.
As far as books.... Poul Anderson wrote The Time Patrol series. I really liked that. It dealt with various time cops protecting the timeline from people changing events. Had quite a bit of history in it.
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Yeah, Final Countdown existed solely to have a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier contemplate taking on the entire Japanese navy. It would have been better if that had actually occured in the movie.
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I recall a hread here wherein some poster said their uncle won atime machine off ebay and I said something witty and then there was this dead hooker...
Cant find the thread though. Mabye someone went back in time and prevented me from posting in the thread, the, because....er...I was shielded from changes to the timeline by the uique anti-entropic chemicals in my blood, I'm the only one that remembers it.
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No. Anything with that talking monkey Zathros was shit.
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Zathros has had difficult life, and likely Zathros will have difficult death, but at least there is symmetry. No-one care for Zathros...
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