Time Traveler’s Wife Show Already Answers The Movie’s Biggest Question

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This article contains spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife episode 1.

HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife series has already answered one of the movie's biggest unanswered questions about time travel. Following the love story of Henry (Theo James) and Clare (Rose Leslie), The Time Traveler's Wife is a six-episode adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling 2003 novel of the same name. The bookwas also adapted into a 2009 movie, which starred Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, although the two adaptations possess distinct differences.

The central premise revolves around Henry's genetic ability to time travel, although it's something that he cannot control. As a result, Henry and Clare's love story happens all out of order, with their meetings scattered across their timelines, making their romance decidedly non-linear. As well as causing The Time Traveler's Wife's characters to repeatedly meet at different points in their respective timelines, Henry's involuntary time travel also comes with another inconvenient side effect: whenever he travels through time, his clothes are left behind, causing him to appear naked at his destination.

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As Henry repeatedly appears naked in seemingly random locations around New York, it would seem that people would likely seek to do something about it—or, at the very least, Henry would become a cryptid-like figure or urban legend. Despite this, the public's reaction to Henry's appearance isn't addressed in the 2009 film. Interestingly, 2022's episodic HBO version of The Time Traveler's Wife has gone some way toward explaining the reason why Henry hasn't become infamous. His naked body and hasty retreats make it difficult for people