Speaking of '90s cynicism. I just had this thought about time travel fiction I read during that decade. @arthur_affect
I mean, it's not unique to that time period, there's the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve that's basically a reverse Kate and Leopold (a man becomes obsessed with traveling to the past because he's in love with a woman in a photo)
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That's true. God, I hated that movie.
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It's based on a Richard Matheson novel (Bid Time Return, 1975) but Matheson was clearly imitating a more famous and influential novel from 1970, Time and Again Which is a straight up tract about the guy desperately wishing to abandon the 1970s for the 1890s
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Or the Back to the Future trilogy itself, which vacillates on how much it believes in progress (they joke about how backward attitudes were in the 1950s, or the 1880s, but the movie doesn't *care* that much, the emphasis is on people being people all the same)
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The future as shown in Pt II is just wacky nonsense that doesn't take the idea of social or technological progress seriously, the ending of Pt III is Doc being perfectly happy moving to the 1880s permanently
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