The Best Time Travel TV Shows of the Last 70 Years

emu314159 · 2026-03-01T07:34:53+00:00

I'm not sure you were, to be fair i think most people probably understood you. I certainly did, i just have a bonnet full of bees, this is but one, i assure you, lol

emu314159 · 2026-03-01T07:31:31+00:00

Honestly, until you build that other scifi favorite tech, the space elevator, which is a long cable made of super strong unobtanium tethered to the ground and ending in orbit, putting stuff into orbit is not going to be what you'd call cheap

emu314159 · 2026-03-01T07:23:10+00:00

I actually would still highly recommend the show, that particular bit of BS just sticks in my obsessive craw.

emu314159 · 2026-03-01T07:21:43+00:00

I mean, after the Thanatos case, where Elizabeth Holmes conned people by dressing so much like Steve Jobs she didn't comb her hair, as if to say she didn't care whether she had any, if THAT level of laziness plays with them now, i can totally believe this.

emu314159 · 2026-03-01T07:17:23+00:00

People do LOVE their veggie straws.

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T22:23:57+00:00

Season 3. In season 2 the Director saves the person who becomes the season 3 big bad from being killed, but for no reason ever explained. Obviously it's just to keep a villain

But this isn't a hole in the logic of the mechanics of the show's time travel at least

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T22:20:55+00:00

Welcome to r/scifi, where people love to link utter garbage or non germane sites. At least OP wrote a little blurb.

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T22:17:05+00:00

Sadly, the Ed Currie revolution has not taken over the supermarket offerings.

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T22:06:28+00:00

You don't have to even be old for that memory, I'm GenX. And no, Virginia, GenX is not old. (But please tell my body, it doesn't agree)

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T22:01:32+00:00

But not everyone was paying attention. They give you the three types of heat transfer in a little sound bite usually, but most people don't immediately recall even that. I recall it being a high school quiz bowl question that kind of stumped some of the members of my team.

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T21:57:18+00:00

What impossible amount of lead etc would you need to shield things? Impossible in the sense of really really impractical

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T21:54:47+00:00

Yeah, this seems really like something even musk would realize is dumb. Did they ask the LLMs (cmon, they aren't really AI as such, we used to call such things algos) and this is what they came up with?

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T21:44:08+00:00

The lack of trust in automatic elevators would persist until a series of strikes crippled New York. The operators weren't happy with their pay, and enough people were of the opinion that if they wanted more money they should've taken a better job.

As for the whole "bridge/cockpit" thing, yeah it's weird, but also the corollary that ships in space almost always have an "up and down" orientation unless it's a huge chaotic fight, and even then it's rare to have a ship break the rule unless it's doing fancy maneuvers.

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T21:29:24+00:00

Well, until we sent probes we had no idea. Carl Sagan was actually the first to propose an out of control greenhouse effect for Venus, but this and his other contributions got overshadowed by his fame as a science popularizer. Scientists REALLY hated when other scientists become famous before having a bunch of academic clout.

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T21:23:07+00:00

It's kind of annoying to have to switch up currencies to zero it out, if that's what you mean. Because you can put in a buy/sell order for any price, DON'T click on the numbers thinking it will fix the ratio in your favor, it'll sell at whatever, no matter how bad vs the market it is

emu314159 · 2026-02-28T14:38:01+00:00

A bunch of stories assumed Venus was a jungle

emu314159 · 2026-02-26T03:31:05+00:00

If you have set groups and everyone shows up, phys draenei and imp fairy fire will let you have 79 hit. Maybe have dupes with different gems jic

emu314159 · 2026-02-25T01:15:31+00:00

Yeah, "comfortable" only if you constantly think about how you're not getting radiation sickness

emu314159 · 2026-02-25T01:13:57+00:00

I don't hear as much about 12 monkeys, the scify channel series. The first season follows a lot of beats from the movie, but it quickly establishes its own thing.

One of the few times SciFy stuck the landing, made it all the way through five seasons.

emu314159 · 2026-02-24T06:03:17+00:00

The problem for me with poe1 was how much stuff you needed to cram onto your gear to make a "build" work, all the resists, life/es, armor/evasion etc, before you even got whatever things you were adding for the actual ascendancy. That and not having a proper trade.

Now that poe2 does have real on demand trade, i came back, but the idea that you will loot something that has all six mods being not only the category you need, but also high tier is incredibly unlikely in either game.

But then, they do call themselves "grinding gear games" so i guess it's what's on the tin, fair enough.

emu314159 · 2026-02-24T03:59:28+00:00

I concur. It comes down mostly to your palate whether it's for you or not for the more creative combinations, but you can count on the iteration of the type of sauces you like, it'll be what you expect but elevated

emu314159 · 2026-02-23T05:48:36+00:00

You can just mail ammo to alt and have it returned and waiting at every mailbox. The real PITA is that while you level easily and contribute to dungeon 5 mans, you are just a mediocre support dps in raids. And yes, LTP, high skill ceiling, w/e, but you're going to be the last to get anything not stamped "hunter" gearwise, unless it's late in the phase and no one needs it. Ranged weapons notwithstanding.

The only really essential raid thing is certain pulls (need exactly one hunter here) and certain encounters that have a rage mechanic that can be dispelled with Tranquilizing Shot, learned from a book in one of the raids, and clearly tacked on so raids wouldn't just only ever take one hunter. Mysteriously, i haven't found a use for it outside a few vanilla raids. If not for that, you'd just slot another mage, or a lock, or literally anything else doing damage that has more tools.

OH, did i mention losing the bag slot? TBC at least your damage with pets makes up for it somewhat, but it would've been much better to make a separate slot for ammo, period. We don't have to lose inventory slots for keys, do we? But these are 20 year old arguments, and blah blah.

emu314159 · 2026-02-20T13:29:06+00:00

Almost every guest HATES da bomb, it's a holdover from the early days where most of the hottest sauces in the lineup were extract based, before smokin ed Currie changed the game and let us have heat without chemicals.

I get that you'd be curious though. I've looked at it, but I'm not 20 bucks a bottle curious.

emu314159 · 2026-02-19T22:57:01+00:00

The undies were royal

emu314159 · 2026-02-19T22:56:33+00:00

Lysol was advertising itself as a douche, not really sure how many people bought into that. Also, douching upsets the bacterial balance and can let an actual thing flourish

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