Some days, it’s not even worth the price of admission to wake up. Phil Connors discovered the power of turning a bad day inside out, but he had the advantage of nigh-immortality to help push him along that path. Having managed to pour a glass of water into my laptop moments before the recording of our latest Major Spoilers Podcast, I have been ruminating about the nature of the do-over in pop culture, and wondering if the chance to be a better Bill Murray and winning Andie MacDowell is worth the possibility of becoming Ashton Kutcher without any hands. Or, for that matter, ANY type of Ashton Kutcher…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) knows that you wanted more than Channel 9, Pittsburg, asking: If you were given the option to travel back in time and change something, would you take the risk, knowing that doing it might make things worse?
Yes. I would make sure firefly wasn’t cancelled. Because theres nothing wrong that could happen there.
Nathan Fillion as a bloated Elvis-like uber-Shatner, coasting on the success of the show, telling us all to get a life and mocking Browncoats as “NERRRDS.”
Awesome.
No, seems too dangerous. Especially cause I have it pretty good, and who knows what insignificant detail could change my life course entirely.
Now traveling forward to alter events, that’s another story entirely, and one I would totally get involved in.
Without a doubt. Even if it meant blowing up the time-space continuum, I would go back in time.
While I normally come to the conclusion that changing things is bad thanks to Doctor Who, there is one event I would change in a heartbeat. I really don’t think there could be a bad outcome to her not dying, though, since it isn’t like I’m affecting something major like killing Hitler or stopping Lincoln from getting shot.
Yes. If I could go back and change one specific day of my life, then yes. Although this is being selfish as I am changing my history instead of world history. But less risk this way. And I can’t think of many ways that day could end up being worse. I would be trying to alter a really bad accident that destroyed my life. So if I could give myself a cold so I won’t leave the house or maybe just slash my car tires so I can’t leave the house, maybe things would turn out better.
Keep Elvis from having all those fried banana sandwiches.
No, I am not wise or knowledgeable enough to try to make changes or even determine what changes would be ok to make.
Don’t we change the future EVERY time we make a decision?
If I could go back in time I’d change things all the time.