I’ve been thinking about where I would go if time travel possible. I think my desires dictate that.
Also, the only book I read that involved time travel was Timeline by Michael Crichton.
Can we do this with Brian Singer as well. ‘‘Look dude what your Superman movie is gonna be like. Now be a man and finish you x-men trilogy!’’
Now that I think about it the movie business should invent time travel and make it mandatory to all sequel director 
See - admittedly, Id go back through my “timegate” (ala Stargate)and http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showpost.php?p=185702&postcount=14
However…
…yeah. That’d need to happen too 
how bout
just 2 see what all the fuss is about
Wow! What a wonderful and mind-blowing arc!
Time travel is something I’ve always been fascinated by- I loved Somewhere In Time! Christopher Plummer as Jane Seymour’s baddy manager! And it was a modern penny that sent him back with her screeching, “Richaaaaarrrd!!”
Time Traveler’s Wife is exceptional as an audiobook! Two narrators, each from the couple’s perspective, and Sean, it isn’t icky! The movie, of course, had some major differences, but the heart of the story is there. Fabulous listen! Unabridged version!
Right now I’m listening to Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Massive in it’s unabridged form- nearly 33 hrs! Beautifully narrated and I’m only about halfway through it. Just post-WW2 british nurse falls back in time 200 yrs in Scotland. Brogues ensue!
Furious weasel to the shorts?
Along with the screenwriter, Lucas should have hired different directors for the Episodes 2 and 3. As with Singer, should have done an original Superman film with no ties to Donner.
1776 Philadelphia! That would be excellent. As a lady I would not be allowed in Independence Hall itself, of course, but I hear that it was so damn hot that summer that they were always asking someone to open up a window 
Also, I’d stay there until 1789 and then get a job at the tavern where the Founders all retired after the day was done to hash out the thornier points of creating a new republic and make backroom deals while getting foxed.
I would also love to travel back to the heyday of Weimar-era Berlin.
One type of “time travel” (quoties deserved there because it’s not actual time travel, more like historical voyeurism) that I haven’t seen discussed but would LOVE and quite possibly kill for the chance to experience would be the Potterverse Pensieve. Imagine handing out in the salons of Renaissance Europe through the thought-stuff of leaders like Davinci or riding on the back of some ban’s horse as the Ottoman empire expanded in every direction in the 1400s. Or experiencing the first moonwalk from Aldrin’s actual perspective! How cool would that be?!
I imagine there would be a lot of quietly muttered swearing as he stares enviously out the window at Neil Armstrong.
Dammit, Starbuccaneer, why you gotta be such a dope sometimes?
Eh, much better than Michael Collins’s perspective.
I can’t really pick a place to go back in time to. Of course it is a little obvious for me but going back to talk to Darwin as he’s struggling with publishing Origin would be interesting.
I was always an optimistic future guy that would want to see what it would be like 100 years forward or so. However, of late I don’t think I would want to do it because I think it would too depressing.
If I could choose, I wouldn’t want to go back further than the conception of my kids. Butterfly effect stuff, any changes I made no matter how small could affect that mathematically brutal moment and delete/change who was born. A fraction of a second difference in timing and BLAM! One of my kids never existed and is someone else instead.
I see folks getting hung up on big details in these discussions all the time, but it’s the little things that matter to me personally, because our world is carried on the backs of countles trillions of microscopic events like this every day.
I was thinking the same thing as I was listening to the podcast. I do think the ‘butterfly effect’ has been under appreciated in this discussion. Not only in the realm of conception which is completely random, but just listen to the nightly news listing off random traffic related fatalities to realize only a few little changes can have a great effect.
I guess a related genera of the time travel story are those that deal in the concept of fate. I think the current The Adjustment Bureau and the Final Destination series deals with this issue but comes to the opposite extreme view from the butterfly effect.
One other thought that I hadn’t heard addressed: if time travel in the past is ever to become possible why has there never been any evidence for it? Is our time just so boring that no one ever bothered to visit?
It is my feeling that if I were to time travel, I would be adding a new variable to the time-line thus creating a new time-line. If some theories are true and there are multiple time-lines constantly creating and destroying themselves. A time-line with your children has already ran its course as well as several other possiblities. If all this is true (of course this is a huge stretch), then I couldn’t damage this current time-line. I could only create another or several others considering how many times I decide to frak around in the past or future. If I had a device that was so precise, I could mess around in the past and future and then return to this current time-line without any consequence besides my own aging.
Crush the butterfly. Steal the butterfly. Feed the butterfly. Frak the butterfly. Do whatever ya want. The butterfly don’t mean a thang. The time machine would have a nice shiny interface with choices. Click ‘frak the butterfly’ and visit that result, etc. Enjoy the ride.
While the mulltiverse theory has merit, I’m more inclined to go with the Resticted Actions idea. Where in should you try and do something that would alter the timeline it would be prevented. IE: You try and shoot Hitler and your gun will jam/miss/that Hitler would be a body double/etc.
Absolutely super required reading for this thread:
http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html
Anyone who has ever worked on a large Wiki project should enjoy this.
After helping lobby for a Time Travel arc forever, I’ve now shamefully fallen behind in listening. So apologies if this has been discussed, but one of my favorite TT flicks is 12 Monkeys. In that one, the timeline changes, but remains essentially the shame: Different people take on different roles, but the same big-picture stuff keeps happening.