How Does Time Travel Work in The Time Traveler’s Wife?
This article contains spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1.
HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife introduces viewers to a very different form of time travel — and here's how it works. Based on the bestselling 2003 debut novel by author Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tells the story of Henry DuTamble, a time traveler whose ability is rather more of a curse than it is a blessing. At age 28, Henry learns he is destined to fall in love with and marry Clare, a woman who has encountered his future self many times.
Time travel is a theoretical science, and precious few films and TV shows really explore the concept in a consistent way — simply because they're telling stories rather than presenting a treatise in temporal mechanics. The Time Traveler's Wife is relatively unique in that it only explains its time travel in the most general terms; there's no TARDIS or DeLorean, and its stars aren't scientists who specialize in their understanding of time travel. It's easy to see why this approach drew the attention of former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat, whose love for the book is displayed in his Doctor Who character River Song. He's now writer and producer for HBO's new series, The Time Traveler's Wife.
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The Time Traveler's Wife is presented as a romance, with only the lightest touch of science-fiction added as a justification for its central plot device. For all that's the case, though, it handles time travel in an unusually consistent way. Here's exactly how time travel works in this story — and what this model of time travel means for Henry and Clare.
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