Time Traveler’s Wife Hints At A Major Story Change

HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Spouse hints at a attainable story change from each the ebook and film, based mostly on the occasions in season 1, episode 1.

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HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Wife season 1 episode 1 hints at a major change from the film and the ebook upon which it is based mostly. The novel The Time Traveler’s Spouse by Audrey Niffenegger was first printed in 2003. The genre-bending story of a lady who retains assembly the person she is going to marry all through her life with the information that he’ll die tragically was an enormous bestseller. The Time Traveler’s Spouse movie adaptation got here in 2009, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana because the doomed couple Henry and Clare. Now, HBO’s adaptation that includes Rose Leslie and Theo James is bringing new consideration to The Time Traveler’s Spouse.

Like Outlander, The Time Traveler’s Spouse is a romance that facilities on time journey, however The Time Traveler’s Wife’s time travel mechanism is exclusive. Henry has a medical situation that forces him out of the current and into seemingly random durations, largely inside his personal lifespan, creating private issues and bodily hazard. In HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Spouse adaptation, nonetheless, the story could contain one main change.

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HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Spouse appears to indicate that Henry could have some management over when and the place he is ready to journey, which isn’t the case within the ebook and film. Within the latter two, Henry ultimately meets his future daughter, Alba, who does possess this capacity. Alba is taken into account a prodigy, and it’s explicitly acknowledged that Henry is unable to intentionally journey to locations and occasions of his selecting. Nevertheless, in The Time Traveler’s Wife season 1, episode 1, the younger Henry returns to a museum instantly after wishing to go there. This implies some factor of management, and a serious departure from the film and ebook.

Thus far, HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Spouse usually sticks to the precept that Henry can not management his “chrono-impairment.” The scene during which he returns to the museum is an exception. Within the film, Henry about to be killed in a automobile accident when he’s spontaneously transported again in time. In HBO’s streaming adaptation, Henry is mendacity in mattress about to go to sleep. He asks his mom if they’ll return to the museum that very evening, and moments later, he travels there. In neither adaptation does Henry have full management of his chrono-impairment, and the principles of time journey, reminiscent of the truth that Henry must always time travel naked, are constant. Nevertheless, the situation and time of Henry’s locations are defined as much like a gravitational pull. This might be learn as contradicted by the truth that younger Henry traveled to precisely the place he wished for on the time he wished to go there, which suggests a component of free will.

Henry’s daughter Alba (who has not but appeared in The Time Traveler’s Spouse sequence) possesses this capacity in full power. Within the film, she makes use of it to go to her deceased grandmother, her youthful self, and even to return and see Henry earlier than his loss of life. It is attainable that she has additional discovered to regulate the flexibility, whereas Henry could solely be starting to know it. Within the museum scene, he wished to go to a time and place and was in a position to obtain it. Later in his life, The Time Traveler’s Wife shows Henry visiting Claire at key moments. Whereas he describes that as gravity pulling him to vital folks and deadlines, it is attainable that it is pushed by his want to be with Claire.

Henry’s needs (and presumably fears) directing his travels could also be what HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Spouse is hinting at. It is a departure from the film’s onerous rule that Henry cannot management his time touring. In doing so, it provides an interesting new dimension to the story.

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New episodes of The Time Traveler’s Spouse air on HBO Sundays at 9PM EST and launch on HBO Max afterward. Subscribe to HBO Max here.

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