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7 Stories That Prove Time Travel Is Best When It’s Complicated

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11/22/63

The creepy, supernatural undertones of 11/22/63set it apart from other time travel stories. As Jake Epping gets drawn into his late friend Al’s mission to save JFK and change the world, history actually fights back. Jake is inexplicably covered in spiders, almost run over, and nearly crushed by a falling chandelier. This might have felt like Final Destination just subbing out death for history, but, in this case, it drives a terrifying and otherworldly menace within11/22/63. The performances and design are flawless, transporting audiences into a fully realized 1960s America. 11/22/63 takes strange detours and withholds exposition, trusting viewers to follow along. That faith is rewarded with a strange, unique, and engrossing romantic thriller.
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12 Monkeys (Film)

12 Monkeys is a masterpiece. A chilling, sci-fi spin on the Cassandra myth, Terry Gilliam’s film lives in a space of grim ambiguity. James Cole might not be Bruce Willis’ most iconic role, but it is his best executed. He must simultaneously appear dangerously deluded, but also believable and appealing. Brad Pitt and Madeleine Stowe also turn in incredible performances, buoyed by a disorientating and endlessly intriguing script from David Peoples (of Blade Runner fame.) The questionable nature of everything in the film allows for 12 Monkeys to sidestep the usual logical pitfalls that stand in the way of many time travel tales


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12 Monkeys (TV Show)

SYFY’s reboot of the above-mentioned time traveling classic takes advantage of its medium to fully explore the ideas of the original film. The apocalyptic future is barely glimpsed at in the movie, but the show fleshes that world out, creating a variety of interesting factions. The series also changes up its leads, with Railly being a virologist instead of psychiatrist/love interest, and swapping out Pitt’s manic animal rights activist for Emily Hampshire’s unpredictable math genius. Cole gets a little more moral clarity, and whole lot more hair. The show is every bit as trippy and intense as the film that inspired it

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All Star Superman #6

At their heart, time travel stories deal with the pain of lost possibility. They explore the connections that might have been, and open long-sealed doors. Processing regret is an abstract action, but time travel gives it form.All-Star Superman #6 – Funeral in Smallvilleapplies all of that to a story about grief and loss. Comic books tend to use death as a motivational tool, as backstory to provide a hero with depth. All-Star Superman #6brilliantly uses a time travel plot as a frame to explore the messy reality of loss, making it one of the most poignant Superman issues in any run.


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Continuum

Fast-paced, action-packed, and full of smart twists, Continuum is the perfect example of a show that understands the tropes of its genre and how to use them. Rachel Nichols plays Kiera Cameron, a tough-as-nails cybernetically enhanced cop from the future who is mysteriously transported to the past along with a group of terrorists. With a surprisingly complicated plot and well fleshed-out mythology, Continuum explores the consequences of changing the past with a tremendous degree of nuance and clarity.

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