Back to the Future

[kryptonitemonkey]

Thank you Netflix for having Back to the Future. I do have to say though, while it's one of the best movies ever, if you ever actually take the time to think about it, a lot of things don't make sense. Time travel always makes for interesting stories, but it sure can lack cohesion sometimes. It was a little difficult to watch this time around. I'm not sure why, but while I still enjoyed it, I also noticed a lot more little things that bugged me. Like, if changing the past made him disappear, why did it take so long to start happening? And since changing the past can instantly change things, why when he came back did he not recall his new timeline as well as the old? Time paradoxes tend to be a dime a dozen in sci-fi, but they at least try to be consistent. What bugs me the most is that I couldn't just sit down and enjoy it without nitpicking. Come on, me, get with it!

Comments

[pixelzomblina]

I use to wonder about that too! Like... Why did he not instantly disappear? It's still one of my favorite series of all time though! ♥

[kryptonitemonkey]

I know, right?

[phaea]

Like, if changing the past made him disappear, why did it take so long to start happening?

THIS!!!!! i always get hung up on this when i watch that movie. xD

even with all the paradoxes, time travel is one of my all-time favorite plot themes. ^^

speaking of time travel...have you seen deja vu or next? they're not exactly time travel but they're similar and i LOVE THEM. they are amazing movies. i'm not a jessica biel fan at all. but i love next.

[kryptonitemonkey]

I have seen them, though I don't remember pretty much anything about Deja Vu. Next I've seen once or twice and it's okay. I do like the genre though. Time travel and the like always makes for the coolest ideas. I don't know why, but I particularly love the Groundhog Day type movies or episodes of shows. Even years later I so fondly remember the episode of Stargate SG1 that did it, and it was ever so amusing.

[phaea]

oo, oo, oo!!!!! the one where SG-1 discovers that planet???? and at the end of the episode, they are trying to send a note through the stargate to tell their past selves NOT to discover the planet?? is that the one you're talking about? that is literally my favorite episode out of the entire SG-1 series!!! i want to say more, but i'm afraid of posting spoilers if it's NOT the episode you're talking about and you haven't seen them all. xD

i just looked it up. the name of the episode is '2010'. my ALL. TIME. FAVORITE. i want to watch it again. :P anyway, i'm thinking that's NOT the episode you mean, because the time travel aspect of that one is very subtle. you might be talking about 1969...

Groundhog Day is a great movie, too, yes. ^^

[kryptonitemonkey]

The one I'm referring to is called Window of Opportunity. The one where Teal'c and O'Neill relive the same day over and over. I so vividly remember the two of them juggling...

I've seen 'em all, so no spoilers possible.

[phaea]

oh my gosh!!! i'd forgotten about that one! that's another favorite! i love it because of o'neill resigning and then kissing carter. xD

so since there's no spoilers for you, i can tell you what i love about 2010 is you get the total emotional harvest of the entire team dying for a super noble cause WITHOUT actually losing them permanently. xD the triumph is so palpable during the slo-mo scene of the note bouncing through the gate...i love it.

[kryptonitemonkey]

I tend to prefer funny over overly emotional, but that was a good episode to be sure.

I also tend to like some of the very last episodes, but that's just because they have Morena Baccarin in them...

[phaea]

well, at the risk of sounding like a parrot, i usually prefer funny also. in the case of 2010, i can actually ENJOY that emotional-ness because they don't stay dead. xD i am not typically one for drama, especially SAD drama. x_x

i haven't seen the last episodes. i can't think what season i ended with, but it started getting a little too dark for me. i've actually been thinking about picking it up again, but i don't think it's on netflix anymore. :\

[kryptonitemonkey]

Yeah, it's annoying how they always end up pulling various shows. I wish the companies that owned said shows wouldn't get so greedy. It's really the only reason why contracts on shows don't get renewed. If only they'd put that, Eureka, and Warehouse 13 back up. For some odd reason they only have the last season up for those last two.

[phaea]

oh my goodness!!! i had eureka and warehouse on my watch list and i didn't realize it was only one season! that's super lame!! :[ so much for reacquainting myself with either of those...

[kryptonitemonkey]

I know, right? So lame. Though if you still want to see them, you can always go through the Watch Series website. You can stream pretty much any show ever. When the paid site fails me, that's where I go.

[phaea]

watch series?? i've never heard of it! googling it now. ;) thanks!