The Dean R.Koontz book called Lightning versus the Terminator films...?
Not really a contest - several huge, gigantic bolts of lightning out of
the blue (so to speak) goes a lot further to dissipating the enormous
E=mc^2 energies involved with time travel than a few strands of
electricity, a bubble, and part of a juggernaut or fence disappearing
into the ether. Also, in Lightning, only travel into the future of the
machine was possible - although one could return; in The Terminator and
T2, the machine seems only to send people back in time, unless Kyle's
comment about there being "no way back" only meant that the machine had
been destroyed - although how would one take a recall device along if
clothes and guns get destroyed...? (Where would Kyle have put it... no,
don't answer that! Thank God it's academic anyway!) The Lightning
Tunnel (as the Nazis called their machine) didn't strip clothes away or
any cobblers like that! In fact, with the aid of a modern-day computer,
our hero was able to send himself directly into Churchill's underground
war office! (For the why, you'll have to read the book!)
As to the Napoleon being taken out of time thing mentioned by Steve D,
doesn't it sound rather like having to get back by whatever-o'clock San
Dimas Time in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? And didn't they take
Napoleon out of time as well? (I've already ranted about travelling
through time in a phone booth being a blatant rip-off of Dr.Who, so I
won't say it again) Incidentally, why do some people (usually script
writers) have this notion that insane people go around thinking they are
Napoleon (among other things)?
Don't tell me - it's more acceptable to a family audience than thinking
he's Hannibal Lekter or Satan's messanger or something like that!
Later, dudes.
D.Chilard
"Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there?"
"Two, actually - I've just been to Royal Hollow... I mean, f*** you,
***hole!"
-- The Terminator (IFIS edition)
Not really a contest - several huge, gigantic bolts of lightning out of
the blue (so to speak) goes a lot further to dissipating the enormous
E=mc^2 energies involved with time travel than a few strands of
electricity, a bubble, and part of a juggernaut or fence disappearing
into the ether. Also, in Lightning, only travel into the future of the
machine was possible - although one could return; in The Terminator and
T2, the machine seems only to send people back in time, unless Kyle's
comment about there being "no way back" only meant that the machine had
been destroyed - although how would one take a recall device along if
clothes and guns get destroyed...? (Where would Kyle have put it... no,
don't answer that! Thank God it's academic anyway!) The Lightning
Tunnel (as the Nazis called their machine) didn't strip clothes away or
any cobblers like that! In fact, with the aid of a modern-day computer,
our hero was able to send himself directly into Churchill's underground
war office! (For the why, you'll have to read the book!)
As to the Napoleon being taken out of time thing mentioned by Steve D,
doesn't it sound rather like having to get back by whatever-o'clock San
Dimas Time in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? And didn't they take
Napoleon out of time as well? (I've already ranted about travelling
through time in a phone booth being a blatant rip-off of Dr.Who, so I
won't say it again) Incidentally, why do some people (usually script
writers) have this notion that insane people go around thinking they are
Napoleon (among other things)?
Don't tell me - it's more acceptable to a family audience than thinking
he's Hannibal Lekter or Satan's messanger or something like that!
Later, dudes.
D.Chilard
"Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there?"
"Two, actually - I've just been to Royal Hollow... I mean, f*** you,
***hole!"
-- The Terminator (IFIS edition)