Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale

On 6/13/2025 11:38 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:50:44 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 12/06/2025 10.24, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:32:26 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 09/06/2025 19.06, Tony Nance wrote:

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The Time Machine - Wells

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This is the second classic Wells you've recently mentioned (the other one
was _The War of the Worlds_), neither of which I've read. (I have seen the
George Pal interpretations of both, of course.) I need to fix this.

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Yes. You do.

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Pal's version of /The Time Machine/ is -- awful. No, seriously, read
the book and forget the film, if you can. (The main problem is that it
is obsessed with Nuclear War which, of course, the book knows nothing
of.)

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Nuclear war? Wells didn't even know about the Blitz when he wrote it, or
even WWI.

 Thanks for confirming my point.
 I didn't notice this when I saw it as a child, but the Eloi are lured
into the Morloch domain /in the movie/ by the sound of an air raid
siren and the opening of an air raid shelter's doors -- a siren we
heard and a shelter we saw earlier in the film.
 The problem for me here isn't that they changed the book, the problem
is that the changes are modern-day (well, "modern" when the film was
made) concerns.
 Maltin, who likes the film, calls it a "cartoon version" of the book.

HG Wells wrote of atomic bombs all the way back in 1914, in "The World
Set Free". Of course, he got them wrong, but people were already seeing
the potential energy in the atom.
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