RickiTarr,
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Okay, what movie/TV show/ book has the best take on time travel and why?

sezduck,
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@RickiTarr #TimeTravel
Movie: Back to the Future
(simply because it’s so damn entertaining)

TV Show: Quantum Leap 1989 - 93
(entertaining, most episodes have a message, Sam & Al are awesome, Al’s wardrobe is awesome)

Book: 11/22/63
(what starts out as a story about trying prevent JFK’s assassination turns into much, much more as the 21st century protagonist makes a life for himself in the early 1960s)

MichaelPorter,
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@sezduck @RickiTarr Loved 11/22/63 - The book, that is. There was a television adaptation, but it was a bit of a let-down after reading the book… By necessity, they had to leave a lot out.

Rhaedas,
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@MichaelPorter I've only seen the TV series, but I enjoyed it. Loved how temporal inertia gets in the way of changing things.

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veirling,
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@RickiTarr I adored the last episode of Star Trek TNG, "Paradox". Was it accurate science? idk. What really caught me is changes to a timeline reverberating both backwards and forwards and the anomaly kept getting bigger in the past. btw, Q (John de Lancie) always just kills me. I miss the chemistry of those old trek shows.

Rhaedas,
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@veirling I think you meant "All Good Things..."

Star Trek has used time travel a lot, sometimes good and something not so much. I do think "First Contact" was one of the more successful ones, perhaps because it was a movie and able to expand out things better than a TV episode. "Time's Arrow" (the two-parter with Mark Twain) was pretty good as well.

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