“The Time Traveler’s Wife”: The Doctor Who Met Benjamin Button

The person responsible for this editing is one of the most sought after screenwriters on British television. pen Steven Moffat He has been behind the cult titles and revival of the Sherlock caliber. Doctor Who in the new century. The showrunner created his own version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for Netflix last year, and now he’s returning to adapt one of his favorite books for HBO. It is a novel written by audrey niffenegger with the same name as this new mini-series and It was brought to the big screen in 2009. (Out of curiosity, he directed Theo James, the director of that film adaptation, on the films of the saga. Divergent). Some of the principles of time travel mechanics, a hallmark of the house, are repeated in this new adaptation. The author inspired Moffat in Doctor Who scripts by describing the romance between the character’s eleventh incarnation and another second installment in the series. River song. Both had their strange love stories. scattered encounters over time. Somehow, these chapters were an undisguised homage to this book.

In the HBO series, Henry works as a librarian and Clare is an artist. The two are destined to fall in love and eventually be together, and neither time paradoxes nor age barriers can separate them. The starting point is not without a certain irritating touch. He met her when she was just six years old, after an adult Clare announced to him that she was destined to marry in the future. If someone is still missing at this point, it must be explained that Henry is suffering. a rare genetic disorder. Jump in time completely randomly without any explanation. He didn’t stop reminding me Benjamin Buttonthe character played Brad Pitt in the movie David FincherHe He had the ability to grow backwards, from old age to childhood.

In Benjamin Button, her lover gets younger as she gets older; here Clare has a linear existence where she finds her lover in the disorderly moments of her existence. Henry is like a river that he traverses through the years at different stages of his journey. And sometimes the Henry she meets isn’t the person she fell in love with. At 28 and 38, we can be completely different people. Within twelve years of their first meeting, Clare and Henry will meet 150 times. Henry handed her a notebook with a roadmap of all his appearances. The controversy remains the story of Clare, who waits between jumping and jumping. In the case of both Henry and Benjamin Button, their special status is not about a superpower or ability. Rather, it’s a curse or a disability that the character has to live with. The age at which Henry met Clare was not without controversy, but it should be clarified that the protagonist is not in love with a six-year-old girl and is patiently waiting for her to come of age before thinking about anything with her. He. Just as Clare isn’t in love with the younger version of Henry. In those childhood years, Henry was kind to him. imaginary friend.

When approaching stories about time travel, many of us grew up with the rules explaining Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) inside, Return to the future. It was clear to us that we should try to avoid moral, temporal paradoxes, and that changing realities can cause you to disappear from history or create an alternative reality. With Moffat, we learned that while there are moments that can change over time, there are main beams that are destined to happen one way or another. they are inevitable. No matter how far you go back to change them. With Moffat, there is no multiverse, no butterfly effect. It’s supposed to happen, one way or another. The bitter lesson Henry learns in the most tragic moment of his life is the traumatic death of his mother. An event where we will explore the diverse existence of different versions of Henry. They learned that the only thing they could do was try to relieve the wrenching pain of their little selves.

The eighties don’t just live in this temporary displacement from Back to the Future mythology. In Terminator, another well-known movie series of that decade, it was said that inorganic matter could not travel through time. In the Moffat series, the killer becomes exactly the same as in the movie saga of cyborgs. Displacers pop up out of nowhere in a ball (yes, without an electrical storm), and one of their first needs after the jump is to buy clothes. Of course, the hero does not have fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger Saying “I like your jacket and bike” and taking action. Rather Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) when he arrives completely naked at a time that is not his. That’s why it’s important to have an ally who can easily provide you with clothes at every jump, without having to snatch them from the first suspicious person in your path. And that’s another of the keys to the beginning of his story with Clare.

It was originally announced that there will be a single season, but the fact that the plots were omitted from the book led to speculation as to whether there would be new sequels. Especially since we met much more mature versions of the characters who have not yet appeared in the series in those interviews. After seeing how they can prolong certain moments, I can say we have all the time in the world. And that they can be unfaithful even with different versions of themselves.