| 1 | * InformedWrongness: The book reveals that the CorruptCorporateExecutive who owns the TimeMachine at the center of the novel is planning to market it to the rich and powerful, to host tour groups to the past. AndThatsTerrible, so much so that the heroes use the time machine strand him in the middle of the Bubonic Plague as punishment. Except, as the novel repeatedly reminds the reader, this form of time travel doesn't cause paradoxes because the past can't be changed: instead, it's more like traveling between identical {{Alternate Universe}}s that are out of historical sync with one another (this is presented a little inconsistently, since the heroes first got involved via a letter from the past, but the book holds to that explanation regardless). So, apart from an assumed AlienNoninterferenceClause towards those other timelines that doesn't actually exist in the book (since it takes place in today's world), there doesn't seem to be anything really wrong with his plan. It's just confirmed as wrong by the horrified reactions of the heroes. This apparently wasn't lost on the movie producers: TheFilmOfTheBook instead has the villain [[HoistByHisOwnPetard accidentally stranding himself in the past]] while trying to kill the heroes. |
| 2 | * SpecialEffectsFailure: One of the castle ruins at the beginning of the film look like something on a poorly photoshopped postcard. |
| 3 | * {{Squick}}: |
| 4 | ** The description of the tannery. Pretty much TruthInTelevision. |
| 5 | ** The protagonists stumbling upon the dead bodies of a woman and her children. |
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