What about recursive time traveling paradoxes like in that one episode of Pinky and the Brain (When Mice Ruled the Earth) or the messed-up version in Sealab 2021 (Lost in Time)?
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What about recursive time traveling paradoxes like in that one episode of Pinky and the Brain (When Mice Ruled the Earth) or the messed-up version in Sealab 2021 (Lost in Time)?
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The Farnsworth Parabox episode of Futurama is the best (and funniest) dealing of alternate realities I've seen. "Now, now. Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything."
That's a different episode. The ep where (or should that be when?) the gang traveled back in time to 1947 was "Roswell That Ends Well".
Even though I believe in the grandfather paradox, for the sake of storytelling, I like it when when the future can be changed by tampering with the past.
A Darkwing Duck episode or two dealt with Time Travel paradoxes.
One dealt with Darkwing not changing his past, and as a result going to a future in which it had changed drastically (Darkwing even meets an alternative version of himself). It's more or less the Back to the Future effect.
The other episode in which DW went into the Future, and Darkwing never finding her. This resulted in a rather drastic change in the hero, and a a darker future. However, when DW goes back in time, she effectively nullfies it.
What did I learn? Time travel episodes are largely a plot device to explore what makes a hero a hero. That, and Time Travel makes no sense.
The Gargoyles approach is the only one that works for me.
Though... which one was the Futurama one?
The Bill and Ted cartoon (in the first season on CBS) kept the predestination paradox angle of the movies up (they encouraged Henry Ford to get into building cars by bringing him back to the present to fix a classic car Ted's dad owned), though one episode had Rufus warn them against going back in time to the 50s to meet Bill's dad as a kid (lest they alter the past)---which they try to do anyway, only to find they were tailing the wrong kid. :-p
The second Fox season, on the other hand, put more emphasis on the booth's newly gained ability to enter fictional realms (TV shows, fairy tale books, etc.); one notable episode had them prevent Columbus from going to America, thus altering the present by preventing Europeans from going to the new world (San Dimas turned into a forest undeveloped by man, and Rufus became British...). Making it even odder was that they'd already met Columbus during his 1492 voyage on an episode from the CBS season...
The BTTF cartoon kept the usual past-is-mutable motif of the movies...
But what I liked to wrap my brain around, was how their visit to the past could have 'caused' the original Roswell visit of 1947.
Basically, if it werent for them going into the base, then the incident wouldnt have happened.
Xiaolin Showdown ended on a two-part time traveling story, where Omi ended up in a bad future where Jack Spicer ruled and all his friends were eventually killed. Then he went to the far past to try and make the present better, but he screwed things up even worse.
The final episode goes in a different direction. Basically Darkwing and crew go back in time to find out the origin of a museum amber in which the person trapped inside is DW. Needless to say the trip through time leads into him being trapped in the amber. Launchpad and Gosalyn arrive to the present to free him from it.
Thanks for the info.
Aside from Gargoyles since it's been brought up, has any other show stuck with their established time travel rule. Or do all of them just go back and forth?
Xiaolin Showdown did in Days Past/Citadel of Doom... but not in Sands of Time or the Time After Time two parts...and... I *THINK* Futurama did.