Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "Trope Talk: Time Travel" video.

Have you ever noticed how certain understandings of time travel come in and out of fashion? The 2000s were the decade of the closed time loop (Timecrimes, Blink, Lost, Harry Potter), but now most new fiction scoffs at that, says "time is a river," and happily indulges alternate timelines.
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@TerenceClark There were at least two contributing factors: 1. The 2000s saw a big vogue for string theory. 2. The 2000s saw a big vogue for anti-heroes, and the closed time loop is very conducive to stories where the protagonists are horrified (or at least surprised) to discover that they are responsible for everything that's happened, which you can only do so much of before it gets old.
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@TerenceClark For a time in the mid-2000s there was no getting away from Brian Greene.
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