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Jul 09, 2023 04:23PM

Pat of Rocks wrote: "That was a really good one! I haven't read anything else by the author - anyone have recommendations for others that she's written?"

"Touch" and "the sudden appearance of hope"

Jul 09, 2023 07:16AM

Heather(Gibby) wrote: "I do enjoy stories involving reincarnation or immortal beings. Its a bit of a fantasy to imagine living through so many different time periods.

The only one I can think off of the top of my head ..."

The most amazing I can think of is "the first 15 lives of Harry August". If you do not know it, I suggest you not spoil it for yourself.

happy, real Happy reading!

Jun 27, 2022 10:57AM

Jun 04, 2022 03:34PM

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

TT series or with relevant TT element, 3

• Stargate Origins(2018)(WHAT could almost be better than a new SG-adventure! But who would have expected something with SO low production value, over-acting, bad script, lack of tension!?)(3×10 min. as “pilot” – which is another way of saying “proof of concept”. But Hellooo! 200+ episodes should be more than enough toproveconcept. Just get out there and hire good scriptwriters and make some good stories, and you’ll re-open the franchise to millions of dedicated fans! What could be more obvious!)(Ninnigans!)
• Stargate SG-1(I was staying away for the longest time, due to accidental perusals of a few minutes of a few eps. But then I needed something and got the whole 10 seasons together – 214 episodes… – and began from one end. (8 seasons in and I have NEVER seen so high production value in a scifi series as the first 5 seasons. And, frankly – even if the acting is sometimes lousy, and I feel the synopsises appearlame and predictable, I always leave an ep with a feeling of MORE than good scriptwriting. Exalted, enthusiastic scriptwriting, insidea potentially never-ending arc – but soon, they will HAVE to involve the citizens of earth. No matter the budget… It’s not gonna happen, I know.)(A few time travel eps here and there).(Yeah, it IS military rainy-Sunday-TV)(All 214 episodes of it, plus 5seasons of Stargate Atlantis plus 2 of Stargate Universe plus 3 TV-movies).
• Stargate Universe(My all-time favorite universe-dreamer series. I mean: A Stargate and a Starship travelling to the beginning of time, all in one! What more could you want?!) (Now cancelled due to GREAT GREAT STUPIDITY) (If SG-1 became all about fighting bad guys wanting to take Earth out, Atlantis a perpetuation of that a long way from home plus more money coming in, then Universe was the beam of hope in the murky waters of existence, the human joy of real exploration with all the darkness of near-death and exhaustion and betrayal included to try and discover “why are we here?”. Fucking brilliant. What a sad person – the one who killed it.)
• Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles(Not bad, actually. A bit formulaic, but… there ISsomething there.)(Yes, there is. Summer Glau is spectacular)
• The Crossing(Refugees from a war in the future)(S01, 12 eps)(april 2018)(Premise is formulaic and (halfways) becomes a joining of legal representatives in order to stay true to both present day humans and alien (in actuality, as they ARE different due to different demands) future humans, while debating the human element in an advanced human, represented by the need to nurse and attend to a child. I can almost hear the pitch – but I believe they were disallowed too radical a show. Too bad. Already cancelled, possibly because of demands to prove worthy in just 12 eps).
• The Future Is Wild[unintentionally politically incorrect animated series of youths traveling to the future to find a new place for humanity] [1 season]
• TheGirl from tomorrow(2 independantchildrens series, trapped in the past) (dated)
• The Lost Room(great premise for a mini-series, 6 eps.)(Actually, really great!)
• The Outlander(She is transported from our day to the Scottish past to fall in love and be confused about who to love.)(Everything for love – even abuse of the time travel trope!)(Now renewed for s5 and s6. Say what?!It must be the romance doing it.)
• The Time Tunnel(30 episodes of 2 scientists time skipping)(Nice 60’s aestetics, but quite predictable)
• Tidsrejsen(the Time Journey), DR’s julekalender 2014 (Danish christmas calendar series for children i 24 episodes)(Not too bad, though very formulaic)
• Time Prisoner[China, 2021, Animation ‘a la Final Fantasy][1st ep@ Dailymotion] [Skip– unless you are into monster-fighting time travellers, who appear to do nothing but that] [So far not on imdb]
• Time Travelling Bong(Mini series for dopers.. Very fan’ish, but budget does well.)
• Timeless(2016, Protection of time)(s01 strikingmany false notes makingmyteeth jarr. Comedy, political criticism, soap, historical correct, dotheyknow?)(Seems up for cancellation) (Nope, renewed for 2018)
• Timeslip(Complex children’s series from the 70’s, 26 eps)
• Tom’s Midnight Garden(children’s series from 1974 and again 1989)
• Travelers(Time Travel by way of taking over bodies at (future determined) time-of-death) (Not a bad idea, and ripe with evolving paradoxes due to meddling with circumstance, but formulaic to the point of regressing to soapy relationships in order to hide lack of content and keep production costs down. SO transparent) (S01 kinda decent, but I do not hold my breath for S02) (Renewed for S02) (Yet another example of studios needing light, unchallenging fare for those generally imbibing TV as substitute for social interaction).
• Undone(2016) (Rotoscopy) (Brilliance, clarity of vision, such images!) (Looking to save her dead father)(Also in the past, did I say that?) (Renewed for season 2 to come out in 2019, but 2020 it hastn’t yet). (Damn!)
• Voyagers(A bit dated, and for youngster, but fun) (time travel)
• Warehouse 13(They are obviously having fun, and everyone love the Pandora’s Box trope) (Okay finish with S05)
• Will vs. the Future(2017, Pilot. Future warrior tells teenager that he will grow up to destroy the world) (Story can go anywhere, even into complex Hero’s Journey (remember Darth Vader growing up), but usually youth TV series never do)

Yetto watch…
• A step into the past(Hong Kong historical time travel)(not seen yet, but will) (13 eps)
• Ashes to ashes(2008, kind-of sequel to the British “Life on Mars” (which is much much better than the US remake) (Losing privileges as a female police woman of 2008 by being propelled back into police work as a woman in 1981)
• Atropa(1992, TT, animated)
• Atropa(2018) (mini-series, 7 eps)
• Bakumatsu Kokosei(1994) – Students fall through an Earthquake fissure and are transported to the Edo Era.
• Ballad :Na mo naki koi nouta (miniSeries) boy travels back in time to prove himself
• Blame The Hero(TT, 2019, save the world from Armageddon in the past)
• Dark Oracle(TT 2004, children, mix animation/live action)
• Erased(2016, TT, anim) TT to prevent death(12 eps, ended)
• Erased(2017, TT, live action) TT to prevent death(12 eps, ended)
• Go Back Couple(aka.Gobaekbubu, 2017, Korea) Married couple travles in time to when they were young and did not yet hate each other… (1 season)
• Go Go Sisteraka Project Makeover aka Eon-ni-ga-gan-da (mini series, 2nd chance)
• Kairos(or Kairoseu) (2020, Korea) Korean film-makers please their audience with soap-level characterisations and conflict, but full of magic, wonder and technology. And any trope you can squeeze in.
• Labyrinth– Time Travel, moderne day/France – 1 season
• Manhole(aka. Maen-hol, 2017) Travelling between times via a manhole to prevent a wedding (16 eps.)
• Mirror Mirror(TT, Children 100 years apart communicate via mirror) (20 eps) (australian link)
• Odyssey 5(2002) (Crew in orbit watching Earth implode is sent 5 years back in time to try to prevent it.)(cancelled, 20 eps, 1s
• Plan B(TT 2017)
• Quantum Break(TT, the end of Time) (Game tie-in)
• Second chance(2016)(Haven’t given it the first, yet.)
• Signal(TT 2016, detectives talking over time
• Somewhere Between(2017)(TT, forewarning of death)(knowing your daughter will be murdered, but not by whom or why)
• Terra Nova– documents the Shannon family’s experiences as they establish themselves as members of a colony, set up85 million years in the Earth’s past
• The Immortal(TT, 1969) Immortal being hunted for his (mortal) blood
• The Immortal(TT, 2000) Warrior hunts demons
• The Phoenix(TT, 1982) Visitor from another world
• the Visitor(TT, 1997)
• the Visitor from the Future(TT,2009, 4 seasons, French, on youtube) (Wanna see – hope it’s subtitled) (trying to save the future of Earth by meddling with the viewer’s present)
• Time after Time(TT,2017) (H.G.Wells, his friend Jack the Ripper and the Time Machine. Well, not thrilled by the prospect.)
• Time Belt(2003, 5 eps, yet to see) (A product of a monthly contest “Channel 101” founded by Dan Harmon…)
• Time Cop(TT,1997, after the movie, yet to see)
• Time Riders(yet to see) (4 eps)
• Time Slip
• Time Squad(yet to see) (animation)
• Time Trackers(yet to see)
• Time Trax(1993, TT, lawman from the future looking to go home, 2 seasons, 44 eps.) yet to see
• Time Wasters[2017-2019] Struggling jazzband is propelled back to the 1950s

Jun 04, 2022 03:33PM

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

TT series or with relevant TT element, 2

• Future Man(I should be excited. It’s a Time Travel series!) (But, like I said 10 years ago, the TT as central trope AND simple plot device is now coming into play far and wide, and there are A LOT of tropes involved in a TT optional universe – and I say that, because wehaveseen them. So. Come.Up.With.Something.New! to do with TT! Or just rarely seen. Like Dark, f.ex)(Well, following a period of personal adjusting-to-form… S02 is opening new vistas, when it comes to mixing comedy and science fiction (time travel, alternative realities). Yes, TT is a central issue here (get back to one’s “own” time), while at the same time acting out a TOTALLY zany story fraught with great stupidity, insane computers, dying world, and basic basic emotions unchecked by reason AND a BIG BIG dong (really!)(I’m just about to embark onto S03, and I have NO expectations – one too many show has taken the wrong road for reasons only CEO’s know – but it’s very obvious that the show feels NO obligations to be political correct, and as such manages to tell their very own, way out there, crazyfunny story of silly asses in possession of great tech.)(Okay, its way out there great!)
• Goodnight Sweetheart(British retro-fix, “the old days were better”)(Time travel between London pubs, more or less, but very period British.)
• It’s about time(animation, dated, travel to past, bring back pre-historic cave people)
• Journeyman1 season/13 episodes (Cancelled due to stupidity)
• Life on Mars(the UK-version) (US-version sucks big time!) (A stretch to call its time travel trope relevant)
• Lifeline(TT) (2017, youtube red) (Insurance company using time travel to prevent their clients’ deaths. Really!? ) (Cancelled after the first 8 ep)(Ending has repercussions, which may be more interesting as possibilities than an actual second season)
• Loki[Marvel, 2021] (You Have To See This, It Has Time Travel In It!my good friend said (who is also a Marvel fan). And so it has. Time Travel as a means to escape, Time Travel as a reason to punish, Time Travel as means of Change and reason to Restore, And Loki really IS not trustworthy, and closer to the un-perverted Loke, God from Asgard, than the Devil Incarnate from the Newer Edda heavily influenced by the Christian invasion. But what can I say? After 2 eps. I find it hard to remember anything about it. Sure, the cut in Owen Wilson’s nose stands out. And some of the backdrops from the TVA headquarter. But that’s it. What is it really about? As in “anything”?)
• LOST(Plane crashes on island, and survivors must deal with internal strife, creatures of the night, deadly conspiracies and human experimentation, a lunatic dicator, plus love, treason and every other conceivable human emotion x 100 before realising that… Ah, that would be telling. DO NOT read up on this, if you don’t know the ending. It is a BRILLIANT series, when it comes to writer’s abuse of characters and throwing every conceivable TV trope as spanners into the works, every time something seems to begin to function. Very nasty, that!) (Also, LOST is a model for how to round off a TV-series, even if there were more plot holes than plot points.)
• Making History[2017, Why is it that when money is sunk into Time Travel, the show easily becomes a history lesson, singularly about US history? When Any time is just A time!] [S01 is 9 episodes, and a Time Traveler has to independently support Time Travel, which is an interesting concept] [AND there’s a bland human interest story in there too, if you like that kind of filler.]
• Manifest(2018) (Plane in air moves people 5 years into the future of their relatives’ bereavement and reliefWe’ll see if the use oftime travelis just yet another bad pretext for a catalog of soap TV tropes. If the trailer is any indication, that may be the case.)(trailer)
• Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.(Avengers Movies’ spin-off, light entertainment in the same vein)(2013) (How it picked up in 2014. Quite entertaining, and interesting mix-in with cinematic movies on the same timeline and arc!) (Good tale of betrayal and how to deal with hurt feelings) (Still rolling, 2016, but I care less for the storyline now, as changed behavior of major characters deviate unrealistically from their previously presented(though stereo-typed)personality.)(MAN! 2017 season going off-world is sucking me in, in a fully good way, CGI, story and all. Even if it feels like a re-boot, “now that we have this cool concept and cool characters that we don’t want to let go of”) (I admit: Cannot be bothered to see if it checks with the paper canon)(Renewed for s6. Can’t say I’m trilled – the cast begins to seem a little worse for wear.)(Innocence gone, Quake is intolerable, but the convergence of alternate timelines is… well, I guess the Unused Trope Box was empty.)(s06)(how can they go on with this? But swapping things around and returning love to where it belongs is the safe bet. Plus a lot of time hopping and paradox avoiding. Good fun most of the way.) Some serious TT!)
• Minority report(You know its about money, when it’s been a decade since the movie. Come on, guys! You’re lazy. Why don’t you do some world building instead – take a ganderat the consequences of living in a world like that?)
• Missions(Fully dislikable French billionaire buys his way to Mars alongside a host of equally dislikable crew members, and crashes in the most unbelievable lack of back-up systems without means to escape the planet. And then weird things begin to happen. As if everything wasn’t already totally fucked to begin with.)(Bad acting, bad script, and too many close-ups of faces speak of a very tight budget. Maybe just a trickle more on script development?)(10 eps., 2017, French)(But there IS tension. Will give it 2 more 25 min eps, before fully gouging it).
• NOS4A2(2019, s01 and 02 so far, horror) (Zachary Quinto of Heroes and Star Trek fame) (Immortal feeds off of children’s souls and deposits remains in Christmasland, where its forbidden to be unhappy)
• Paradox(2009, data from the future) (Okay) (Cancelled due to lack of imagination)
• Phil of the Future(2004, future family go back 15 years) (Oh, no: To be forced to live and laugh in 2004, again! when you’re really from grand, amazing 2021! )
• Primevil(Dinosaurs breaking through from 100-65 million years ago so regularly that a show could be filmed every week.)(Cancelled from exhaustion. Just bad writing without ways to go, and make it interesting).
• Primevil, New World(The new world referred to is USA. Dinosaurs still breaking through regularly)(Not bad, actually, and 2013 seems to be on the way to a sizable story arc).
• Quantum Leap(No real story arc, but thumbs up for its social conscience)(Like Sundays in the rain with ice cream) (Visiting various historical times in time to do good by overtaking the mind of a person not locally regarded as competent to solve the presentconflict, mostly leaving a local hero behind, while our real conflict solver skips to a new mind.) (When did he ever sleep?)
• Rick and Morty(Ab-so-lu-te and all stops out-BRILLIANT!)(S02 2015)(For un-likeability the charactersbeat every animated series out there.)(The way they resolved the cliff-hanger from end of S01… I shake my head in admiration. Then S0202… Scriptwriter Dan Harmon is a serious threat to depression everywhere!) [Rick and Morty is a drug. I spoke like them for 3 hours straight after first 2 eps of s03, driving the GF crazy. Took effort to make it burn out. It’s THAT good!][Now renewed for a whopping 40 more episodes! Can scripters Dan Harmon & Justin Roland stay insane long enough for the series to poke that hole into a seriously fucked up, but more reasonably so (than the present, which for all intents and purposes keeps on resembling a very badly written, though unpredictably changing arc) alternative universe for everyone to escape to, thus avoiding the pitiful pitfalls of the present “real” universe?! I will be observing, hopefully participating, soon, soon!] (s04) (Well, I suspect my off of pot-condition is responsible for dialing down the inzaniness for me. No lack of far out ideas or solutions in s04 – i’m unfortunately just not reacting to it like before.)
• Sense8(I can pick holes in this LBGQ+++mini-series with a tweezer, but there is only one way to characterise it: It is full of love!)(10 eps. Not sure I want a 2nd season)(X-mas episode a jubilant advocation of sexuality translating into We Are All Connected By Being Human. BRAVO!)(Now I’m looking forward to S02 and willing to forgive everything)(2017, I forgave everything. Even if s02 not so intense as S01, and an ending reeking of premature cancellation – it is still the TV-show about human love that came before anyone was ready, but right in time to be the first to celebrate Universal Love, the unafraidness of loving and accepting humans rather than how they look (no fat people, though)). (Thank you).
• Seven days(Go back 7 days to fix big calamities)(Okay, but formulaic)(3 seasons)
• Si no t’hagués conegut(if I hadn’t met you) (Catalonia, 2018, 1 season, might be renewed for 2022, even if I cannot see how to progress from the end. It’s perfect as it is!)(Man loses his wife and children to a car accident, which he believes is his fault. And that’s all you get. Google it as your own loss.)
• Sisyphus The Myth(2021, Korea) (I can’t remember shit after ep 1, but it was really weird in a South Korean way, I mean, like not doing stuff and things in a familiar way. But I promise I’ll re-watch it, as I believe it was a TT-series, and those are hard to come by.)(And actually: I had crazy far-out morning last-stage REM-sleep dream of a Korean nature. I think its somehow infectious. It was really weird!)(Ah, wait. There was the plane-scene! Well, I could watch that again! Taking the “look where you are driving!” TV-trope to whole new hights!)
• Sliders(great 1st season, then 4 not so amazing, but I did love the concept of alternate worlds – 1 new pr episode!)(Kind of did for travelling between dimension what Quantum Leap did for time travelling in minds)
• SolarOpposites(2020, anim, US, s01) (Someone called this a lightweight Rick & Morty. After 1 ep I would agree, but lets see… See what I did there? Was I not being super-fair? For loving Roilands other show I’ll give this one a 3 ep-go.) (Crazy rhymes, I know. SO show!) (Go, go, go) (BTW, its about these crazy stranded super brainiac aliens stranded on Earth, waiting to go somewhere else, and while stranded they are being really ha ha ha ha funny crazy weird doing weird crazy fucked-up shit. Really!)(Well, kinda okay, but very much R&M with other characters and a different story) (Now renewed for s03. We see money at the horizon.)(All right, gotta give credit to THE WALL. The wall! The see-through multi-layered aquarium in the alien “children”‘s bedroom for humans shrunk by the alien teen only bent on capture, while his emphatic “sister” is revered as a deity by the shrunken ones for her kindness and consideration, THAT WALL!)(And then it all became better. I don’t want to live inside Justin Roiland’s head. End of story. Oh, and there’s a holiday special too. )
• Stargate Atlantis(Wasn’t for me. The aliens from an alternative universe – because the kinda “spent” all room in ours for new development – felt contrived. Boring)(5 seasons)

Jun 04, 2022 03:32PM

SPOILERS AHEAD!!

TT series or with relevant TT element, 1

12 Monkeys(2015, TV version of the Terry Gilliam movieTwelve Monkeys)(The problem with remakes is you can only do SO much – OR deviate totally from the story and ending. And the ending of the movie was very bleak. As of 2017 the TV-series is still going. (Apart from money) I wonderhow come? There is not much of the the quirkiness of the movie here, just a “save the universe by travelling to the past and discovering what the layman’s version of free will really means”.) (3 seasons, good production value, medium fare.)
• 5ive days to midnight(time travel mini-series)(fine)
• A Discovery of Witches(2018)(A woman is discovering her powers and falling for someone, who has never mated)(S01 had way to much naked skin in it, as if any self respecting fantasy today has to appeal to more base instincts and nightly fantasies, but with mating identification out of the way it recovered in S02 and became a TT-series with good reason, which is a rare phenomenon these days.)(I am actually enjoying the historical part of it – and how it takes place in two realms at the same time – though apparently without causing any changes to the future… Ah, you can’t win them all! But it is see-worthy)(S02E03)(renewed for S03 in 2021)(S02 end: I DO despise the use of the child as pure function: It has an important task to perform, and as such has to be kept in reserve for that function – and every time the script cannot avoid having the child in frame, it is ushered out of the picture in order to focus on the romantic entanglement, which leaves no space for mum-dad-normality. Seriously, this is dramatic child abuse, which reflects back on the characters – from allowing this they appear cold and uncaringly focused on their own desires. Ass wipes.)
• ad vitam(French, 2019)(Humans have stopped the ageing proces. If you want. And some don’t. And some are not compatible.)(ep1, it’s kinda hard to figure out, what it’s about. Nice, gritty atmosphere, but it seems the idea is: If you don’t have to die, you don’t age mentally, which IS a theory, but kinda lame.)
• Alice[2020, Korean, 16 eps, finished) This was a weird trip. Not just a very convoluted time travel story probably extended from maybe 8 compressed eps to fill 16, with forays into parallel realities (dimensions, so called), but also many tangents, sudden backstories, Deus ex Machina, character mutations, plenty plot holes, fantasy and magic painting over unresolved science (= much), and lots and lots of tears, streaming tears in every episode, plus a view to a very strange culture, where no one kisses on TV, and there’s nothing strange about hitting children, and ridiculously immature and co-dependant behaviour is almost expected of women as well as young men, plus pedophilia between the main characters may or may not be averted.)(It begins with a book predicting the end of Time Travel, and by consciously or through bad writing keeping you confused about when and how you are yanked in all directions, while every cliché in the book of daytime TV is thrown at you smothered in tears. I mean, it’s crazy how much they cry! But for some reason I watched it to its end. You can too, there are many reasons both to and not to. It’s quite simply a very, very weird culture clash and mash of tropes and clichés and immature adults, and did I mention tears?)
• Ark(TT, 2009, 9 eps, cancelled)(strangers from 2 time periods wake aboard a space ship)
• Beforeigners(Norwegian/English 2019) (People arriving from the past to settle in present day. Brilliant concept taken to the max: Imagining the behaviour of these people not easily converting to modern day “civilisation”.)(Most certainly a refugee/migration analogy, but good fun and exciting.)(S02, 2022) (Luddites subversing all, and Jack the Ripper back on the scene. Dual-direction timetravellers, MI6 sending TT-agents back, King Olav on coke, options are open i all directions with this openness to the past, the series can run for decades, if they can keep the characters interesting. Much to be happy about. Alfrildr is a GREAT viking character!]
• Best friends whenever(2015. Teen time travel)(Too Disney. There IS such a thing).
• Bloom(2019) (Berry restores youth…)(Simply theBesttime of your life…)
• Boku dake ga inai machi(2016,Erased, animation,13 eps.) Sent back in time to prevent his mother’s death.Brilliant!)
• Class(2016) (Teenagers in time. Not holding my breath, but giving it a shot. Brit teen-angst, here I come)(2016, 1 season, cancelled?)(Coal Hill School/Acadamy, where it all takes place, is a spin-off from Doctor Who)(Well, it’s very BBC YA-like, with recognisable YA identificators such as bullying, masturbation, homosexuality etc. Similar in style to Wizards vs Aliens, but probably owing more to the narrow minds of British YA TV altogether than the mind of brilliant and former Doctor Who writer, Russel T. Davies, whose ideathatwas.)(Hmmm, kind of liking the street-freshness – but then again, Russel T.. Davies always was better at the dark things than whats-his-name, who fucked up the good Doctor the last few years) (Time Travel is breaking down the walls to “the other place” and teenagers are destined to save existence, again. Might be prudent. We all know, what will happen, when we send adults!)
• Come back alive(aka. please come back, Mister) (2016, Korea)(Man is worked to death, but gets a second chance. Then everything devolves into normalcy. Kind of.)
• Continuum(Corporate, fascist regime in the future, and our heroine travels back in time to defend just that. Seriously.)(Okay, maybe she WILL realize her mistake and become a good person…)(She did.)
• Counterpart(Parallel dimensions. S01E01, J.K. Simmons incredible as the double agent, so to speak, and the whole idea is crazy in a good way. Completely changed my mind after the first ep. Just get it up, you people!) (Diplomacy across dimensions is such a fucking cool concept! And I love that it takes place in Germany!)[E05 – J.K. Simmons, you ROCK!]
• Crime Traveller(a bit dated, even in 1998, but good time travel concept)
• Dark(German, children vanishing, S01E02 so far interesting)(Concept with the nuclear plant as part of the villany is a bit… predictable. Simple drama technique: Show the gun, use the gun) (10 eps in S01 – okay, you got me!)(Absolutely Fucking Brilliant seasonal ending!) (S2 now belongs to Netflix and it’s been synchronised into English. Really. Is that what we want? Eradicate cultural differences?!)(S2E1 nothing spectacular, not holding my breath)(2020 Havent gottten past e01 yet)
• DC’s Legends of tomorrow(Hard not to try to follow this shallow actors-must-hate-it piece of crap story writing about sailing the time stream… Yeah, how often does a time travel series swing by?! I haven’t read the comics, but I assume its onthe same level ofstereotyping – intelligent, but psycho, dumb, but psycho, brilliant, but psycho, but can learn empathy, loving, and loving, and brainy, but nerdy, but handsome… oh, god, and nothing is saved by brilliant CGI and violent and sloppy fights.) (1s/2016)(S02 did not improve)(And no one misses the guy with the hapless diction, overplaying psychopath, macho freak. He’s just gone.)(Oh, and Suddenly it was named DC’s Legends of… rather than just Legends of… – taking on Marvel on the nam egiving level. This present increase in Super Hero series and movies is wearing thin.)
• Debris(2021, 13 eps, cancelled, no big loss) (A jumble of tropes with a base in techno-magical effects on humans and human affairs from debris from an alien ship fallen to Earth, but the idea soon wears out. If you get past the first couple of eps, you will probably want to stay for the rest. Like emptying the candy bowl, though you know it’s bad for you. But you then most likelywillmarvel at the magnificently alienness of the debris and how difficult an actual contact would probably be, yes, so, so much!)(But, my gods, the time travel/dimension skipping/parallel worlds dual-episode, with its 50% “but it was all a dream” should figure as worst episode writing of the year candidate! Shame on you lazy bum writers for this burnout. An affront to all time travel logic accumulated over the past 30 years.)
• Doctor Who(the resurrected Doctor, seasons 1, 5 and 6 are excellent in my eyes, David Tennant playing the Doctor in s.2,3 og 4 I find less interesting, even if the arcs here are better than anything before and after. The last doctors (S07-09) arestraight out boring, and only for the die-hards, who cannot get enough. The Who-Universe is being emptied out. Nothing new is coming is. The companions arelife-less and un-threatening. I have stopped caring.)(The seriesis actually being killed by incompetence masked as good story writing. There is an utter fear of women present – for lack of initiative to have the doctorgrow up, as he was on his way to in the first eps. StevenMoffatis terrible! A brilliant populist w/oanything on heart, sadly.)(Now, 2o18, the long awaited female incarnation of the doctor. The writing is much better, so far (e06), but it’s now become sightseeing historical events and meeting Real Historical Characters, the most boring way to spend Time. Giving the writers time to land it differently, but not holding my breath. Actually not much difference in the character – the quirky peace loving childishness is still there. Which in a way is a good thing. So, why am I bored?)(She is SO fake and OVER-directed that I cannot BEAR watching it. Totally screwed it up! Absolutely and totally!)
• Dystopia(UK, 2019, 8 eps.) (Research on a teleportation device leads to accidental discovery of Time Travel! I should be all exited.) (I was.)
• Early Edition(1996) (He gets tomorrow’s new in tomorrow’s paper. What is he gonna do about it?)(The belief in humans is strong in this one!) (I always wondered what he did, when he wasn’t working for the rest of us. Very long and plenty workdays there).
• El Ministerio del Tiempo(The Time Ministerie)(Spanish, 2S, still going (2017), have seen e1 and 2, and I am not holding my breath.)(3 people from 3 ages broughttogether to prevent changes to the Spanish History. Refreshing that other nations than USA matter!)[It is packed with cryptic references to the history of Spain, none are explained, everyone are expected to know them.]
• Farscape4 seasons/88 episodes + 2 double episodes “The peacekeeper War” (A looong way from home, and Sci-fi TV’s greatest villean!) (Cancelled due to stupidity and adult darkness, then rounded off with a miniseries). (How ever fantastic and mold-breaking Farscape was, it still was not allowed to become really painful. “Don’t tamper with a well-proven formula” and all that… But viewers also grow up, the world around changes. Darkness is nuanced. There were the slightest hints at that – and then “goodbye”.) (Fear kills many good things.)
• Find me in Paris(2018) (Ballet and Paris, and Time Travel) (What more do you need?) (3 seasons)
• Flash Forward(cancelled due to studio stupidity!)
• Futurama(killed by the studio and revived years later, now on S07. Good, light entertainment 1000 years in the future. Thishowof “continuouslybeingfor salewithout learning anything” could only have come from the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening! Lovely!)

Mar 11, 2022 01:08PM

Feb 26, 2022 06:15AM

Its been close to 6 years since the last entry.

In the meantime DUST has very successfully introduced a lot of various tropes as SHORT films.

I wonder if anyone has a full list of TT shorts``

I have for 11 years maintained the TT film list. I have over the years included many shorts, but never made real headway towards a proper TT shorts list. Help would be much appreciated. I will however condense the above list, unless someone has already done it?

Presently I am in the midst of updating the film list altogether - offline - while working towards a different way of presenting the list. Some easy java-fold-out fields, containing necessary info, or something :-D Good ideas for WP plug received with direct gratitude .
https://krabat.menneske.dk/kkblog/all...