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   Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦 (statsguy@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 06:36:42 JST Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦

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   • Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

   @RickiTarr I loved the bit in Back to the Future (or was it Back to the Future 2?) where he went into a bar sometime in the past and had to make up a name, and came up with "Clint Eastwood", and no-one thought there was anything weird about it.

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     Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 06:36:44 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

     Okay, what movie/TV show/ book has the best take on time travel and why?

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     DopeGhoti (dopeghoti@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 22:57:39 JST DopeGhoti

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     @RickiTarr
     In no particular order:

     • Back to the Future: One of the few filmic takes on the genre that does a reasonably good job of being self-consistent with respect to causality, while still having nods to stepping on butterflies (e. g. Twin Pines Mall→Lone Pine Mall).
     • Primer has an obligatory place on this list.
     • Red Dwarf has, for all that it's a sitcom first and SF second, some excellent takes on time travel sprinkled throughout its run.
     • Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, once you get past all the farcical bits, has some excellent "this is a time travel story" beats. "Remember to set this Deus ex Machina up later on so that we get out of this tight spot we're in right now."
     • Arrival has a great closed information temporal loop.
     • Babylon Five has some really good long-form temporal hijinks.
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     Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 (joe_hill@union.place)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 05:39:26 JST Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦

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     @goatsarah @DopeGhoti @RickiTarr oh, I forgot all about Dark. Took watch8ng it twice to make all the connections. I was 1/2 way through S2 when I realized different actors were playing the same characters at different ages. (I should really stop posting while I’m watching TV!) 😂