The Question is “When?”

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Novel Series

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Time after Time

  • by Dee Davis
  • 5 books (Jove et al., July  2000)
In the first book, 20th-century Katherine St. Claire returns to the Scottish hotel where she had a passionate one-night romance eight years ago with the man of her dreams, and from there, she’s drawn back to the man himself in the 15th-century Highlands.The other tales in the series also have various lovers pursuing the object of their romance, traveling to past or future centuries in Scotland and (in the final book) in the San Juan mountains of Colorado. —Michael Main
He moved, and then his mouth was covering hers, hard and demanding. His arms closed around her. She was soft and yielding. He pulled her tighter into his embrace. Even with the passing of years, she felt right there as though he had held her through countless nights instead of just one.
A sparkling amulet swirls through mist around a castle.
  • Romance
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

John Cusack exhibited his most excellent judgment by not reprising his role as Adam from the first tubfest. Nevertheless, we did spend several enjoyable hours up in the ITTDB Citadel trying to devise a timeline model that fits this second adventure of Adam’s three cohorts—one of whom (Jake) also attempts an explanation of how a mortally wounded Lou manages to jump into his future, healthy body. In his explanation, the trio of travelers go to 2025 in a timeline that branched off from their own timeline—in particular, a timeline where Lou was never shot. Perhaps they are even in the very timeline that was created after the trio returns to 2015 and Lou is not shot. That means that they’re living in the 2025 timeline at a point in their personal lives that’s before their actions created that timeline. —Michael Main
So, Lou was killed in our present, which means that here in the future, he should still be dead. Well, clearly he’s not fucking dead, because he’s sitting here, still bothering me. So what that tells me is we’re in a completely different future on a completely different timeline. [. . .] Anyway, the repairman said that the past is actually the future of the present that we’re in right now. So I think what that means is the killer is from the future. So clearly, someone from 2025 will go back in time and shoot Lou.
The move’s four main yahoos, dressed as astronauts, pose in front of a full moon.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Escape 2120

  • written and directed by Brian K. Bennett
  • (premiered at the Peoples Bank Theatre, Marietta, Ohio, 10 July 2020)
A young man, orphaned as a child, is taken in by an elderly couple who want his help traveling a century into the future. —from publicity material
Undoubtedly, you’ve heard the phrase “suspended animation.” Well, forget everything you knew about that. Thats not what happens here, but its close enough.
A teenage boy stands in wilderness with a modern city seen behind him through a transparent clockface.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Cartoon

The Creature Cases, s02e01

The Missing Mammoth: A Holiday Mystery

An intense story about Sam, Kit, and R.O.N. going back in time to the ice age with wooly mammoths and how they got back to C.L.A.D.E.
—Manachu
You’re right. We’ve got to help them, even if we are stuck in the Ice Age.
Sam and Kit try to hang on the a rampaging wooly mammoth.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: Preschoolers
  • Definite Time Travel