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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 4997426" data-attributes="member: 20715">The problem with time travel in popular science fiction is that the vast majority of stories completely ignore the implications of time travel, using it as a convenient reset button in a bottle.  At its best, speculative fiction explores the implications of technology on the human condition.  Rather than doing that, shows like this episode of Stargate Universe use it as a simple plot device to explore dramatic change without ramifications.In effect, not only does the series ignore the more troubling questions of time travel, but it also drains the gravitas from dramatic character development when we know that anything truly awful can be snipped off and discarded as part of a time loop.My first impression of the episode Time when I started watching it was that it was brilliant.  The Kino gave the characters a mechanism for growth, and for confronting failure and their own mortality in a very vivid fashion.  Then the writers at the end wiped that all away by having Scott's Kino be the only one sent forward to the third cycle.  It would have been far better to have Eli go to the planet and send out two Kinos -- the old one and a new one with a message like the one Scott recorded.</blockquote>