Time Travel, the Favourite
I just noticed that Penelope Picton, Time Traveller has just displaced the Australian War memorial post as the most popular post in two years! I don't know if the majority of people hitting on that post are toy soldier fans or time travel fans. I am fans of both toy soldiers and the concept of time travel.
The HG Wells story and Robert Taylor 1960s film of the same are among my all time favourites.
Other time travel favourites: TV shows It's About Time, The Time Tunnel and Planet of the Apes.
Movies: Planet of the Apes -five movies. There were also the recent two with a different storyline but not as good as the originals.
The Back to the Future movies featured the paradox of time travel into the past. What if you changed things so you could not exist in the first place but then how could you have gone back in time to change things? Or you would go back in time and be very careful not to change it. Maybe you would be invisible anyway. The other possibility is that no matter what you did it would be impossible to change the past. Even more interesting is that you could change the future but not your own. In fact for each change you would create another universe with a different future.
My favourite time travel moment: In the Time tunnel one of the characters or the miltary policeman - I forget which- is caught in front of a charge of ancient Persians towards the Greeks at Thermopalae (?). To help him the time tunnel contollers send back a submachine gun for him to use on the Persians!
Oh, almost forgot - Doctor Who, one of the longest running TV shows ever. The earliest black and white episode included a journeys to the Stone Age , the Aztecs, the Crusades, the Jacobite rebellion and the OK Corral. The Daleks and Cybermen were particularly scary. The egg headed Soltarans were good value, especially when they armed a Medieval lord's men with flintlock muskets.
The last three doctors, whilst good value, have, in my opinion, become too powerful, almost god like. The earlier Doctors were more vulnerable. The first two even showed fear and stumbled and fumbled around.
The HG Wells story and Robert Taylor 1960s film of the same are among my all time favourites.
Other time travel favourites: TV shows It's About Time, The Time Tunnel and Planet of the Apes.
Movies: Planet of the Apes -five movies. There were also the recent two with a different storyline but not as good as the originals.
The Back to the Future movies featured the paradox of time travel into the past. What if you changed things so you could not exist in the first place but then how could you have gone back in time to change things? Or you would go back in time and be very careful not to change it. Maybe you would be invisible anyway. The other possibility is that no matter what you did it would be impossible to change the past. Even more interesting is that you could change the future but not your own. In fact for each change you would create another universe with a different future.
Oh, almost forgot - Doctor Who, one of the longest running TV shows ever. The earliest black and white episode included a journeys to the Stone Age , the Aztecs, the Crusades, the Jacobite rebellion and the OK Corral. The Daleks and Cybermen were particularly scary. The egg headed Soltarans were good value, especially when they armed a Medieval lord's men with flintlock muskets.
The last three doctors, whilst good value, have, in my opinion, become too powerful, almost god like. The earlier Doctors were more vulnerable. The first two even showed fear and stumbled and fumbled around.
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