You would absolutely love what the show "Lost" has been doing with time travel, especially this season.
The two big points they make - you can't really change anything. Time course-corrects itself. An outcome always happens, though the method of it happening may change slightly. The other point is one you mention, that if 2009 You went back to 1977, you would still be living your 2009 timeline. If you were meant to die in three years, it would be 1980, and that's that. However, your 1977 self is "upstream" of you, so they would keep living.
Don't let people tell you Lost isn't a big pile of awesome. It's very much non-linear, and it can be a little confusing if you're watching it for one hour once a week for five years. The end result is a deeply textured story that is well written. And since they asked ABC for a deadline, they've been able to very methodically plot an end to the story, and work towards it cleanly. None of this "Oh, crap, we've got 4 episodes to tie up everything" garbage like the X Files did. - Soulie
I'll have to catch up on it. I started watching when it first aired, but my interest plummeted as soon as other people were discovered to be on the island.... I still watch "Smallville" and "Heroes," though, so my taste in drama is obviously questionable. And highly shameful....
You stuck with Heros, but not Lost. And you've never read "Oh the Places You'll Go."
Not a banner day for you, sir.
Lost is best scene as a very large series of novels, ala Lord of the Rings, with the episodes as chapters. I can tell you that, here in Season Five, things that seemed random were not. It's worth a revisit.
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The two big points they make - you can't really change anything. Time course-corrects itself. An outcome always happens, though the method of it happening may change slightly. The other point is one you mention, that if 2009 You went back to 1977, you would still be living your 2009 timeline. If you were meant to die in three years, it would be 1980, and that's that. However, your 1977 self is "upstream" of you, so they would keep living.
Don't let people tell you Lost isn't a big pile of awesome. It's very much non-linear, and it can be a little confusing if you're watching it for one hour once a week for five years. The end result is a deeply textured story that is well written. And since they asked ABC for a deadline, they've been able to very methodically plot an end to the story, and work towards it cleanly. None of this "Oh, crap, we've got 4 episodes to tie up everything" garbage like the X Files did. - Soulie
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Not a banner day for you, sir.
Lost is best scene as a very large series of novels, ala Lord of the Rings, with the episodes as chapters. I can tell you that, here in Season Five, things that seemed random were not. It's worth a revisit.
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