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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 4522026" data-attributes="member: 18182">Time travel is one of the most difficult sci fi and fantasy tropes to pull off effectively.&nbsp; But it can be done.Hiro's jump to the future in Season 1 was very well done (IMO), but they used practically the exact same plot device again in Season 2 and then yet again in Season 3 with Peter jumping into the future.&nbsp; It's not so much that it &quot;doesn't work&quot; but that we've seen this dog-and-pony show before, twice.And it's the big time jumps into the distant past (Feudal Japan) and somewhat distant future (the various &quot;4 Years Later&quot; alternate futures) that are problematic (or have become so).&nbsp; The little time jumps, like Hiro's trick when he &quot;killed&quot; Ando are much easier to pull off without overly complicating the show.The writers don't need to remove time travel from the show, they just have to be very careful with how they use it and not bore us with yet another jump &quot;4 Years Later&quot; when everybody is grumpy and wears more black . . . .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 4522026, member: 18182"] Time travel is one of the most difficult sci fi and fantasy tropes to pull off effectively. But it can be done. Hiro's jump to the future in Season 1 was very well done (IMO), but they used practically the exact same plot device again in Season 2 and then yet again in Season 3 with Peter jumping into the future. It's not so much that it "doesn't work" but that we've seen this dog-and-pony show before, twice. And it's the big time jumps into the distant past (Feudal Japan) and somewhat distant future (the various "4 Years Later" alternate futures) that are problematic (or have become so). The little time jumps, like Hiro's trick when he "killed" Ando are much easier to pull off without overly complicating the show. The writers don't need to remove time travel from the show, they just have to be very careful with how they use it and not bore us with yet another jump "4 Years Later" when everybody is grumpy and wears more black . . . . [/QUOTE]

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