The Time Traveler's Wife on HBO with Rose Leslie and Theo James is a catastrophe

[illicitlove]

The social media embargo for The Time traveler's wife has been lifted and initial reviews are coming in and they are BAD

Rose Leslie and Theo James play a married couple with no chemistry who meet-weird when one person is a child. https://t.co/feDPPElJB3
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) May 11, 2022

Sure, The Time Traveler's Wife has lots of intriguing

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[bluestoplights]

lmao this sounds about right

the premise is gross but what saved it in the movie was at least having charismatic actors and uh, not spending a lot of time on the whole "he met her when she was a child" thing comparatively

also rose leslie is a tory so...get fucked

[takarai_karin]

But you said it yourself in her timeline she met him as a child and that's why she remembered him. And I'm guessing that's why they interacted or something. If she never knew him from childhood would she have given him the time of day?

It reminds me of time loop romance where one character got all the time in the world (due to the time loop) to learn a love interest's preferences and build a persona from them and that makes the love interest falls in love with the main character, but it's basically based on manipulation, even if the main character narratively didn't mean to do so (although I don't buy the didn't mean to excuse from the writer's POV)

[aliceofclubs]

yeah its definitely still v v weird lol

but at least he fell for an adult, then later met her as a kid?

from her POV it's a lot more messy

[qween_tartii]

i get what you're saying. the novel begins from his POV when he meets Claire for the first time as an adult, and then he starts time travelling back to her past. so, yeah, its not like he sees some random first grader and thinks "there's my future wife!" tbh its probably also why i didn't find the novel creepy the first time i read it (although, as other posters has pointed out, there's also been significant cultural shifts since then, greater awareness of predator behaviour/grooming etc)