It's a timeless question: what can you fix? What does that say about you? Should you interfere? CAN you change the past or is time deterministic? All these questions and more as we read H.G Wells The Time Machine! With Hellsite's Only Book Club!
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Rod Taylor, The Time Machine, 1960
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The final shot of Link Click's season 2 ending theme feels veeerrry reminiscent of the prop used in the 1960 movie The Time Machine (especially that red seat!) but interestingly enough, the actual plot being animated before us—screenshots below—seems to borrow elements from the 2002 release of The Time Machine, which is quite different from its predecessor.
In the 2002 movie, the main protagonist's motivation for building his time machine actually wasn't in the original story (both movies are based on an H. G. Wells novel published in 1895). Care to take a guess at what that motivation was?
His fiancée was murdered, so he travels back in time to find a way to save her.
While the motivations behind the character in Link Click's ED aren't really clear, it sure does imply that this man's (implied) wife is dead.
Now, if you haven't yet and really really want to see the 20+ year old movie I'm referencing entirely unspoiled, you should probably stop reading here. For everyone else...
In the 2002 movie, the time machine inventor travels back in time over and over again to try and save his wife, but no matter what he does...something always kills her in the end. She was destined to die. Hmm, sound familiar?
These are lines spoken by Lu Guang to Cheng Xiaoshi during the earthquake episode (s1 e5), while Cheng Xiaoshi was still in Chen Xiao's body.
SO. What does the fact that Link Click chose to reference this specific movie and this specific plot point from the movie mean for season 2??? I'm terrified excited to find out—all I know is that the implications here are making me lose my goddamn mind.
(Also the fact that this time machine is only revealed by making the figurines of the couple touch palms which directly mirrors how CXS and LG clap in order to time travel DOn'T tALk tO ME)
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Star of 'The Time Machine' and Hitchcock's 'The Birds', Australian actor Rod Taylor photographed at home in the fifties.
(Photo: rodtaylorblog.com)
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Yvette Mimieux and a Morlock in The Time Machine (1960).
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giggles!!! hi!! guess who else got revamps!!!
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1988 Richard Powers cover to The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
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H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (1895)
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