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Ron silver timecop
Ron silver timecop











Maybe Ron Perelman should try to buy Dark Horse next. Timecop (it should be noted) is based on the Dark Horse Comics series, giving Dark Horse two successful characters in major motion pictures in the past year, as opposed to DC’s two (three if you count Swamp Thing) in the past 50 years, and Marvel’s zilch in the past 30. It’s Jack Deth with a budget Quantum Leap with teeth. Walker travels down the time line, making sure (usually through violent combat) that miscreants don’t alter the fabric of reality. Hence the formation of an elite crew of Timecops, to which Walker is quickly recruited after the violent death of his wife (Mia Sara). When the means for time travel is discovered in the 1990s, the possibility of abuse immediately rears its head. Thus far I’ve only succeeded in pulling a groin muscle and accidentally kicking over our toaster oven.) Feeling the need to compete, I am now endeavoring to do splits while balanced on my kitchen countertops. (I should note that I’ve never seen a Van Damme film before. That’s where Max Walker, played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, comes in.

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The past comes back at you at high speed in barely recognizable form, and you jump back and say, “Ugh! Somebody clean up this mess!” But from Time Burps, it’s a short step to Time Heartburn, Time Upset Stomach and, finally, what Timecop actually deals with: Time Projectile Vomiting. Your newfound old friend, in his or her past, was a close buddy, but in your own past, you never met. The item you put down has vanished because time burped and you never put it there in the first place. You can’t remember what you wanted in the room because time just burped and suddenly the reason why you went in there ceased to exist. We chalk it off to lapsed memory, but it’s not. It’s part of your day-to-day existence you accept it and move on.Įver walk into a room to get something and suddenly you can’t remember what it was you wanted?Įver put something down, go back and look for it, and it’s not there?Įver run into someone who greets you like you’re old friends, and you are absolutely clueless as to their identity? Or think of time as telephone lines stretching from the present back to infinity (kind of like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure ) and you get line noise that screws the connection up. That there are fault lines in the time stream, and they’re constantly shifting in thousands of little subtle ways, just like tremors rearranging California real estate. This was a neat dodge, because it would immediately have posed the question: If Superman teamed up with Superboy, wouldn’t he then remember the entire event, since it happened in his own past? This from the old Mort Weisinger Superman comics, which added the wrinkle that you cannot co-exist with yourself-so whenever Superman would go back to, say, his days as Superboy, he would turn into a ghost and be unable to effect the world around him. Efforts to alter the past, no matter how determined, end up with things remaining exactly the way that they were. Little things, minor details here and there might change, but The Big Picture remains the same, usually through the heroic efforts of the time traveler who-it would seem-was fated to do whatever it is that he does.ĥ) Time is immutable, and nothing can ever change. Not only that, but you can even inadvertently wipe out your own existence-which, if that happened, would seem to preclude the notion of you having gone back and changed the past, because how could you do that if you were never born in the first place? A la Back to the Future, obviously. You, the time traveler, create a parallel universe that you have jumped into.

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The world you return to is not the world you know in some way, shape or form, à la Timecop (which is actually the main subject for this week’s symposium, but we’ll get back to that.)ģ) A combination of both. The “universe” would simply split off from that particular instant where the changed was made, creating a parallel universe, à la Larry Niven’s “All the Myriad Ways.”Ģ) The present is altered. What effect will that change have? Well, maybe:ġ) None. Let’s say you’re a time traveler, and you go into the past and change things. There are many theories about time travel and the effect that such theoretical activity might have on the world around us.

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Originally published October 28, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1093













Ron silver timecop