Inside Doug's Head

Time travel as a story telling mechanic has always been… unreliable, at best. When you get to the end, everyone is asking the same question, “But, why did you have to travel back in time to 1493 to save the professor? Why didn’t you just go back to yesterday and stop him from going back to 1493?” Your father was trapped in the 1980s for 15 years because he travelled back in time? You spent 15 years without him? How come he didn’t return to the moment he left? How is time in the past colinear with time in the present? It’s so confusing. I was lost in the past for a decade, and I returned the day before I left, 10 years older? It never makes sense. Because it is stupid.