Leah
- by David Weil, directed by Zach Braff
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Leah” by David Weil, directed by Zach Braff (Amazon Prime, 21 May 2021).
While talking to her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, brilliant scientist Leah Salavara’s subconscious brings up just the idea that’s needed to video chat with herself in other times and eventually complete the final step that leads to actual time travel with a surprisingly complex set of motives.
—Michael Main
Okay, so in order to run a reverse dimensional location search, I need to know what the interdimensional VIN is on your computer.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Leahs from 2019 through 2029
- Timeline Models
- Pruned Timeline: When Leah-2024 sends Leah-2019 to an unspecified future time, both Leah-2024 and Leah-2029 mysterious dissolve. And yes, we agree that the whole panicked handwaving around this isssue mentioning the [tag-butterfly effect is just sloppy writing.
- Time Travel Methods
- Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Something scientific, it would seem, but we never really see the machine.
- Themes
- Fix Your Own Past!: In the end, Leah’s motivation is to fix her own past from about 2019 to 2024.
- Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time: video chats
- Self-Visitation
- Selves-Visitation: Leah-2024 has a kind of video conference call with herself in 2019 and 2029.
- Groupings
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- “Leah” by David Weil, directed by Zach Braff (Amazon Prime, 21 May 2021).