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March 9, 2003 Rodette Vision
Comparing Other Time Travel Shows…. When I think of someone crossing into Time Travel, in my mind, I see Dr. Sam Beckett – his goodness and mercy and his gut instinct going through time and saving souls that would have been lost without his intervention. But there were other shows out there – other movies, even, that showed Time Travel. Shall we compare? Why not?
Quantum Leap: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the Project's Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia, and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brainwave transmissions with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear. Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life - putting things right that once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Twice In A Lifetime Recently departed souls are given the opportunity to have their case argues before Judge Othneil, who decides whether or not they should be allowed to return to Earth and attempt to set their own lives right.
Early Edition The series features Gary Hobson who, after falling on tough times, mysteriously begins to receive a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times with headlines from tomorrow. After struggling with what to do with this foresight, Gary ultimately chooses to use the information to try to make the world a better place. With the arrival of each new day Gary receives tomorrow's headlines and faces a race against the clock and prevents some of the tragic headlines from happening.
Seven Days Seven Days, tells the story of Project Backstep, a secret U.S. government project set in an isolated military compound in the Nevada desert. Project Backstep had been developing a time machine that has at its core alien technology rescued from the 1947 Roswell crash. The project is more than a year away from a test run with a human pilot, when fate forces the team's hand. They are only able to "back step" 7 days, a race against the clock begins to correct a wrong.
Time Tunnel Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages; during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project... the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time.
Dr. Who The Doctor, an alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who, by virtue of his people’s unique physiology, is able to recover from mortal injuries by "regenerating" into a new body with a new personality. In direct contravention of his people’s edicts, the Doctor fled in a stolen time machine – a Tardis. The Doctor traverses the universe, usually in the company of companions he meets along the way, aiding the oppressed, fighting injustice and putting his unique and indelible mark on the broad canvas of time and space.
The Time Machine Desperate to alter the course of time, a visionary scientist invents a revolutionary machine that propels him 800,000 years into the future. There he discovers that humans have evolved into two groups – the hunters and the hunted. Now, he must fight to save himself, and all of mankind, in a final desperate battle.
Frequency All of his life, police officer John Sullivan has been haunted by one tragic event. When a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon of nature opens a mysterious channel into the past, John is stunned to discover that he is able to communicate with his dad Frank… who’s been dead for 30 years. But by changing the past, they set in motion a string of brutal, unsolved murders, with John’s mother – and Frank’s wife – the next victim. Racing against time, the son and father must now find a way to stop the crime that could destroy the future for both of them.
Back To The Future With the help of a wacky scientist, a young teen travels back to 1955 in a Delorean turned time machine. Once there, he meets his parents, still teenagers, but his presence throws things out-of-whack and he must ensure they fall in love and get married or else he'll never come to exist.
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Amazingly enough – even after going through all of these, I can see a common theme(s) running throughout any of the Time Travel shows. You have one of two things going on – someone goes either forward or backward in Time, messes with it and has to fix it or they are traveling in Time to fix a problem that was already there to begin with. Either way, they are responsible enough to realize that they are there to fix the problem – to put it right and move on. They each have a conscious that fixates on not creating ciaos. They have a morality and an integrity that will not be squelched. They travel in time, meeting people along the way (albeit if they are family or not), aid the oppressed, fight injustice and each put their mark on the time that they were there.
So here’s the question: What if you were one of the people who were put in that situation? What if you could reach back into Time and change the one event that forever altered your life? Would you do it? And what would it be?
Reaching for that unreachable star, If you’d like to e-mail MJ about any Quantum Leap information regarding QL: The Virtual Seasons or any Rodette-Vision Column, please do so at mjcogburn@austin.rr.com In my soul, this hope burns free – oh, please let there be one final leap! |
