ars Paradoxica
- by Daniel Manning et al., directed by Mischa Stanton
- Audio Play Series
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- ars PARADOXICA by Daniel Manning et al., directed by Mischa Stanton, 3 seasons (arsparadoxica.com, 1 June 2015 to 6 June 2018).
—pending
Tags
(25)
- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: 1943
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: beginning in Season 2
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: Sally’s older self, now in 1967, comes back to the 1940s to visit her.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Sally’s home time in the early 21st century
- Timeline Models
- Outside of Time: the time bubble (aka the CAGE)
- Timey-Wimey Paradigmy: In episode 4, Barlowe’s death was perfectly set up to be part of a causal loop in a single consistent timeline, but alas, the end of the episode made it clear that there was another timeline where Barlowe died in a different way, and even more timelines seem to be floating around, although it’s unclear whether branching occurs. Also, at the end of episode 5, in which Sally was “in eight places at once,” Donovan asks Cornish which version of Sally he kept. What?! I have given up trying to understand the timeline model, and will try to just enjoy the ride.
- Time Travel Methods
- Chronoscopes: So you’re telling me you built a window through time?
- Luggable Time Machine: It’s unclear what the Timepiece is. A chronoscope? (So you’re telling me you built a window through time?) A machine that Sally can bang her head on? (Hey, are you ok—OW!) Something she can lug around with her? (And you're taking Timepiece with you?) For now, we're just calling it luggable, but also marking it as a chronoscope.
- Temporal Disruptor
- Time Rifts: The original time jump seems to be an accidental rift from the 21st century to 1943.
- Themes
- Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time: the time travel mailman
- Self-Visitation: 1960s Sally visits 1940s Sally
- Stuck in Time
- Time Travel Research Program
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: Hey everyone! Time travel is bad for you!
- Travelers Must Account for Earth's Movment: Wyatt and Roberts spent their Fourth of July weekend synchronizing the Timepiece’s acceleration with the Earth.
- Wisdom or Consolation to Your Younger Self: Donovan repeatedly sends information to his younger self, creating a new timeline each time.
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
(6)
- ars PARADOXICA by Daniel Manning et al., directed by Mischa Stanton, 3 seasons (arsparadoxica.com, 1 June 2015 to 6 June 2018).
- chapter 1.
Hypothesis
by Daniel Manning and Mischa Stanton, directed by Mischa Stanton, ars Paradoxica, s01e01 (arsparadoxica.com, 1 June 2015). - chapter 2.
Blackout
by Daniel Manning, directed by Mischa Stanton, ars Paradoxica, s01e02 (arsparadoxica.com, 1 June 2015) . - chapter 3.
Trinity
by Daniel Manning, directed by Mischa Stanton, ars Paradoxica, 2 pts, s01e03–04 (arsparadoxica.com, 1 July 2015 and 15 July 2015) . - chapter 4.
Bullet
by Daniel Manning et al., directed by Mischa Stanton, ars Paradoxica, s01e05 (arsparadoxica.com, 1 August 2015) . - chapter 5.
Midnight
by Daniel Manning et al., directed by Mischa Stanton, ars Paradoxica, s01e06 (arsparadoxica.com, 1 October 2015) .
- chapter 1.
Indexer Notes
(3)
- Title—We don’t know why ars, –ica, or the odd capitalization is used in the title, so we standardized it according to our rules, which allow for lowercasing the intial word, but not for all caps in PARADOXICA.
- Possible Error—Sally Grissom says her parents took her to the USS Intrepid. “A lunar lander was there, and my parents had wanted me to see the capsule my grandfather had land on the moon in.” But Gus Grissom died in a fire before the first manned Apollo flight, and he never went to the moon. Perhaps Sally is in an alternate history, or maybe her grandfather was someone other than Gun Grissom.
- Get-Your-Authors-Straight-Department—Future Sally: The literature doesn’t exist for you yet, but it’ll be called “Butterfly Syndrome.” Sally: They really named it after the Heinlein story?