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12th Jun '13 1:34:38 PM moderator Fighteer

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10th Jun '13 11:45:12 PM EarlOfSandvich

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8th Jun '13 3:16:01 PM DougSMachina

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* ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' establishes that "[[SanDimasTime the clock is always running in San Dimas]]" -- that is, that however long Bill and Ted are in another time, that much time will have passed when they return to their "home time". This is held up for the first film and most of the second... [[spoiler:and then utterly discarded for the ending of ''Bogus Journey'', where they zap away for 18 months and return seconds after they left.]] Of course, the first film kludges it a bit as well -- when initially going back to their own time, they actually end up at the same point they left, and have to be told by Rufus that they need to dial 1 digit higher for the next day.
** Even more odd, Rufus never tells the two of them his name. They hear it from their future selves, who presumably heard it from ''their'' future selves who...
* ''TheButterflyEffect'' has the events of roughly half of Evan's blackouts caused by his older self [[MentalTimeTravel going back to them]], while the other half were normal initially, but could be changed by his older self. One blackout even has examples of both. Also, it is established early on that Evan is the only who has any memory of the old timelines, but at one point another character notices a change in the timeline for no apparent reason.

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* ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' establishes that "[[SanDimasTime the clock is always running in San Dimas]]" -- that is, that however long Bill and Ted are in another time, that much time will have passed when they return to their "home time". This is held up for the first film and most of the second... [[spoiler:and then utterly discarded for the ending of ''Bogus Journey'', where they zap away for 18 months and return seconds after they left.]] Of course, the first film kludges it a bit as well -- when initially going back to their own time, they actually end up at the same point they left, and have to be told by Rufus that they need to dial 1 digit higher for the next day. Even more odd, Rufus never tells the two of them his name. They hear it from their future selves, who presumably heard it from ''their'' future selves who...
* ''TheButterflyEffect'' has the events of roughly half of Evan's blackouts caused by his older self [[MentalTimeTravel going back to them]], while the other half were normal initially, but could be changed by his older self. One blackout even has examples of both. Also, it is established early on that Evan is the only who has any memory of the old timelines, but at one point another character notices a change in the timeline for no apparent reason.

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*** A fan [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Deja_Vu_Timeline.GIF theory]] suggest that the timeline would have to have run 4 times to get the desired results seen in the film.
* In ''Femme Fatale''... y'know what, screw it. You watch it and tell me what the hell that movie was about. [[spoiler:Was it TimeTravel? OrWasItADream?]]
* ''{{Frequency}}'' is one big TimeyWimeyBall. You've got the son talking to the dad on the same ham radio, and even the whole "changes happen in sync with each other deal" mentioned in the ''KamenRiderDenO'' note above.
** Not to mention that the first time John changes history and saves his father, he suddenly has memories of both timelines, which is promptly dropped for the rest of the film as from then on he only has memories of how things originally happened.
** In ''Johnny and the Bomb'' Pratchett explains that most time travellers forget the original timeline when they return to the new one because of the human tendency to accept what's around them as normal; but if you really try (or are reminded of it by some useful clue) you can remember how things used to be.
* ''The Lake House'' was a horrible mixture of TimeTravel ideologies. In some ways the timeline is constant - the guy she kissed at the party turns out to be the guy she's communicating with in the past. Yet in other ways the timeline is variable - she tells him how she misses the trees, so he plants one at the place she's going to live at - which she magically doesn't notice having grown until after she sent him that letter. And then there's the grandfather paradox involving the (lack of a) car accident at the end/beginning of the film, causing her to go/not go to the lake house and end up communicating/not communicating with the guy in the first place.
** And let's not forget the dog in the past timeline who responded to the name given to it in the future timeline.
* The movie ''LostInSpace'' contains a plot where the father walks into the future by an energy field just to find his son creating that energy field as a result to build a machine to travel into the past, because the entire family was wiped out as a result of the father disappearing by walking into the future...
** Then there's the future Smith killing his past self without a second thought or consequences.

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*** A fan [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Deja_Vu_Timeline.GIF theory]] suggest that the timeline would have to have run four times to get the desired results seen in the film.
* ''{{Frequency}}'' is one big TimeyWimeyBall. You've got the son talking to the dad on the same ham radio, and even the whole "changes happen in sync with each other deal" mentioned in the ''KamenRiderDenO'' note above. The first time John changes history and saves his father, he suddenly has memories of both timelines, which is promptly dropped for the rest of the film as from then on he only has memories of how things originally happened.
** In ''Johnny and the Bomb'' Pratchett explains that most time travellers forget the original timeline when they return to the new one because of the human tendency to [[WeirdnessCensor accept what's around them as normal]]; but if you really try (or are reminded of it by some useful clue) you can remember how things used to be.
* ''The Lake House'' was a horrible mixture of TimeTravel ideologies. In some ways the timeline is constant - the guy she kissed at the party turns out to be the guy she's communicating with in the past. Yet in other ways the timeline is variable - she tells him how she misses the trees, so he plants one at the place she's going to live at - which she magically doesn't notice having grown until after she sent him that letter. And then there's the grandfather paradox involving the (lack of a) car accident at the end/beginning of the film, causing her to go/not go to the lake house and end up communicating/not communicating with the guy in the first place. And there's also the dog in the past timeline who responded to the name given to it in the future timeline.
* The movie ''LostInSpace'' contains a plot where the father walks into the future by an energy field just to find his son creating that energy field as a result to build a machine to travel into the past, because the entire family was wiped out as a result of the father disappearing by walking into the future... '''and''' the future Smith killing his past self without a second thought or any consequences for himself.

8th Jun '13 3:05:57 PM DougSMachina

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8th Jun '13 3:01:04 PM DougSMachina

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5th Jun '13 3:58:37 PM sgamer82

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