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NotSoBadassLongcoat
(Old as dirt)
28th Jul, 2019 12:23:44 PM
Didn't Legends of Tomorrow have an episode like this?
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Pisthetairos
Since: Apr, 2018
28th Jul, 2019 05:20:31 PM
YES! That's it. I hate that show so I wasn't paying too much attention, but now I remember. I dunno if the Atom or someone has a laser gun, but that was it.
I'm pretty sure the show I'm thinking of was a live-action show, not too old, but it might've been an adult animation... one of the episodes had a character go back in time to the early seventies and meet a bearded young man. He saved the man's life (I think from a car-crusher) and finds out the man is George Lucas... but, George becomes a wimp after the experience and refuses to make action movies, so the present changes, there's no Star Wars, et cetera.
So, our hero goes back in time again, with a laser, and helps George avoid the near-death experience. I think the hero has a laser gun, which gives George the idea "of making a sci fi story...with lasers..."
Edited by Pisthetairos