The CoW: Half a Dozen Years » time-travel http://www.the-cow.net Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Why Do Heroes Hate Time-Travel So Much http://www.the-cow.net/2009/04/heroes-timetravel/ http://www.the-cow.net/2009/04/heroes-timetravel/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:02:11 +0000 Alvan http://www.the-cow.net/?p=494 I love time-travel. Yet there’s something about the way Heroes handles it that bothers me. Today it struck me.

The time-travel of Heroes is watered down. Zap, someone goes to the future, omg, there’s danger. Then you just blomp* back and yodeloo* the danger away. And then there’s cake. Until the next horrible future is envisioned and then our heroes change it so that it never happens.

The only time I really remember there being some time-travel stuff going on that made my time-travel-fan-sense tingle was when the guy with the stupid face traveled to the future with a cute non-heroics girl and then left the girl there, and changed the future so that he couldn’t travel back to the girl because the timelines had gone all wibbley-wobbley. And that plot was never explored any further. I don’t think stupid face ever mentioned the cute girl ever after that.

*sigh*

* Blomp and yodeloo might not be real words, but they sure as hell describe well what’s going on.

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