Where's my pitchfork and/or torch? I'm siding with the mob on this one. Not the worst, but it did not engage me at all.
I don't mind leftist time-travelling stories, per se, but I do dislike non-Daikaiju music at the end, no matter how relevant it may be to the story. That was slt in the wound.
Personally, I love time travel stories. I love "The Time Machine," Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book" and "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and that Ray Bradbury story where the tourist go back to prehistoric times to hunt dinosaurs but one kills something that wasn't supposed to die and when they get back, all the signs are misspelled. My favorite Star Trek episodes are the time travel ones. I love Dr. Who. And, one of my favorite shows when I was a kid was "The Time Tunnel." I'm a time travel geek.
I like time travel stories too, but they're very rarely done "right". I keep reading them the way Charlie Brown keeps trying to kick the football that Lucy whips away at the last minute. I keep hoping "maybe this time...".
It
does work sometimes (see Robert L Forward's
Timemaster), but it's pretty rare.
I think one of the biggest reasons that
ST: Enterprise lost its audience was because of the time travel business. A pity, because I liked the crew (except for Archer). ST:Voyager had some time travel episodes too, but at least they didn't spin them out into multi-season story arcs.
I enjoyed that Bradbury dinosaur hunter story you referred to, but only because it was the first time I had ever read anything like it. I was very young at the time.
If the time travel is incidental and counter-balanced by much humour or adventure (eg.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Back to the Future) then all is forgiven. See
"Lampshade Hanging".
I'm worried I'm going to lose all my credibility for saying this, but...
I REALLY LIKED THIS ONE!!!!
Sorry, I had to say it. In fact, it's one of my favourite EPs yet. Up there with Friction.
Bartender ... give me whatever he's having.
(sorry)
But seriously, *applause* for being willing to express a contrary opinion.
in case people haven't seen it yet, why not Hitler?
It is to laugh.