There was much debate yesterday about July 5, 2010, and movie time travel. That it was one of the future destinations that Doc Brown had set the flux capacitor to in Back to the Future. Now we know that it was more movie lore, spread in a new information age.
But it got some thoughts going.
Jake's never had the Delorean but he has time traveled. Not once, or twice but three times in movies, just like Marty McFly.
Donnie Darko, Prince of Persia, and soon Source Code.
Trying to put Donnie Darko in a nutshell is nearly impossible but here's a shot. According to The Philosophy of Time Travel a Tangent Universe branches from the Primary Universe. "The inherently unstable Tangent Universe will collapse in just over 28 days and take the Primary Universe with it if not corrected." It was up to Donnie Darki as the Living Receiver to close the Tangent Universe thus saving The Primary Universe, thus the world.In PoP, Jake's Dastan has the dagger holds the power to control time, and change the outcome of what happens in their current world.
In Source Code, he's Colter, a soldier sent back to a train for the seventeen minutes before it explodes. He gets sent back again and again, always for seventeen minutes, each time bringing him closer to the answers, the truth about who he is and to prevent the terrorist attack.
Variations on a theme when you look at them. Jake is a time traveler with a mission. You wonder what drew Jake to them.
And now a little .back to the future
And spreading the heatwave because its too damn hot on the Eastern seaboard ...
