Tag: Time-Travel Trope

futuristic calendar with years, months and weekdays, the time passing, or concept of time travel (3d render)

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post

Gary Varner
Date
November 1, 2025

Categorized
Science Fiction

Tagged
Back to the Future, Magic in fiction (soft vs hard), Terminator franchise and time travel, Time travel (in science fiction), Time-Travel Trope}

Time Travel: How and Why the Terminator Series Worked—Then Didn’t

_{Part 2: Time travel works well enough as a soft magic system but time-travel stories run into problems when it is treated as a hard magic system} _{Gary Varner
November 1, 2025

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Science Fiction}

Terminator 3 crossed into hard magic territory when it added the concept of fate to time travel, which means that specific rules began to matter.