BOC: "No-Zilla"

SPRAWL sprawl at BLACKBOARD.COM
Tue Jun 9 16:21:04 EDT 1998


hehehe..
name one single instance in any work of fiction where the act of
altering the past was handled properly. the closest i've seen was in an
episode of red dwarf, and that was atrocious!
IMO, anytime time travel is introduced, things are bound to get silly.
Superman can fly around the earth backwards faster than the speed of
light, turn back time and fix any error he makes.  yeah right.

if time travel is ever to exist, then it must always have existed.

altering the past erases the continuum from which the action was
launched. if that continuum doesnt exist, then history was never
altered, so nothing has changed. loopty loop...

rj... going back to unsend this post.

John A Swartz wrote:
>
> >The thing
> that vexes me the most is that they go back in time, and stop
> Godzilla from ever having existed...yet when they get back, everybody
> still knows who Godzilla is...and, like, they know that Godzilla
> doesn't exist anymore...or something like that...pardon my
> non-gum-chewing-non-Elvis-imitating French, but that whole situation
> about Godzilla existing/not existing is totally fucked up! If his
> creation was  erased from human history, how does everybody
> know who he is? And why do they talk about the creation of a 'new
> Godzilla'?
>
> That, plus when Godzilla DOES destroy Ghidorah, the folks from the
> future tell how now Japan will basically be destroyed by Godzilla in
> the 21st century, yet they prepare to return to home in the 23rd
> century - but, isn't their home now altered by the fact that Godzilla
> presumably destroys it 200 years before they existed?
>
> Didn't Toho learn about time travel from Back to the Future?  ;-)
>
> John



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