In "Dial of Destiny", I think Indiana Jones should've stayed in the past.

Asked by luigirovatti (3001

) August 27th, 2023

I think he, as an archaeologist who loved studying ancient findings, had the opportunity of a lifetime, wasted out. Yes, I get it, they needed him in the present to milk for his future films, but, come on, he’s old.

I get also history “could’ve” changed if he stayed in past Greece, but let’s think it out. The grandfather paradox actually prevents anyone from directly influencing his own timeline, and even though in the movie they said a few times the present wouln’t exist, they’re not experts in time travel.

What do you think?

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I’ve only seen clips from people criticizing the film, but I think I quite agree.

I also think time travel stories are almost always very lazy & sloppy in their thinking and presentation of the implications of time travel.

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@Zaku: It’s impossible to portray time travel accurately, because it can’t be practically done. Paradoxes and all that. :)

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@luigirovatti True, but it is possible to posit some more-or-less self-consistent notion of how it works in a fictional story, and to write stories consistent with that notion. Some do much worse than others in that regard.

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