How do they get back into the time sled?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Timecop
MuggySphere — 13 years ago(September 28, 2012 09:39 PM)
This bugged me a little. They ride the time sled to their destination but where does it go, and how do they magically appear back in their seats strapped in when they return from doing time travel?
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matt_shade — 13 years ago(October 08, 2012 05:11 PM)
Simple. They don't ride the sled to their destination.
The sled is sent to one point in time, the time traveler to another. The time traveler's module basically 'rewinds' them back into the sled at the point between disappearing and reappearing. As far as the sled is concerned, the time travelers never leave. As far as the time travelers are concerned, the sled is frozen between two points in time waiting for them.
Well, it's simple as far as comic book pseudo-science goes.
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matt_shade — 13 years ago(October 09, 2012 03:02 AM)
Yep. It was based on a comic book and there was a comic book based on the movie. Just like
The Mask
and
Barb Wire
, also from Dark Horse.
They didn't really need to explain it, just like
Back To The Future
doesn't need to explain how plutonium magically becomes 1,21 gigawatts or how time starts erasing people in the future by the top of their hair (?!).
But that's just me. -
stevenkickstart — 13 years ago(January 13, 2013 09:22 AM)
sorry to disagree matt but they should have explained where the pod went lol
most people that have seen timecop havent read the comics so we need to know whats goin on and if u disapear into the future in a pod and come out the other side without a pod then it would have been cool to know whats goin on
ur explanation about what happened didnt help either lol im still mixed up and if they ever remake timecop im sure they will rectify this issue -
thunderztorm — 13 years ago(January 29, 2013 11:23 PM)
We don't really need to know. It has no relevance to the story as such, so there's no point spending time telling us.
Remember this is a '94 movie. People were less critical about scientific "facts" in movies back then. I kinda wish we still were, tbh.
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cljohnston108 — 12 years ago(August 31, 2013 09:36 AM)
Yes, actually, we
do
need to know what happens to it.
It's not like when we see a character get into a car and drive off to meet somebody at a restaurant, then we cut to them walking in through the front door of the place we don't actually need to see them driving along the street and then parking the car at the destination, because we're all familiar with how that works.
Here, we establish that a rocket-powered Time Sled is required to build up a whole lot of power to PUNCH through some sort of "time membrane" but then our hero just STROLLS out of it on the other side?
When I saw this film in the theatre that one-and-only time, I actually said out loud, "Whuh? Where's the sled? Did he just
park it
somewhere? How's he supposed to get back
kick
a hole in the membrane?" -
Lunchbox-3 — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 05:05 PM)
I would equate the sled to a catapult. When the projectile from a catapult lands the catapult is not along for the ride with it. But it's more like a catapult flinging you straight up in the air, and then gravity returns you to the ground on its own, without a vehicle being necessary.
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cljohnston108 — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 08:32 PM)
Yeah, well, at least
somebody
out there took this matter "seriously"
4 Reasons Timecop is a Modern Masterpiece | Cracked.com
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-timecop-modern-masterpiece/
#3. Time Travel Is Not the Most Improbable Thing in
Timecopsnip<
For instance, here's their intimidatingly sophisticated time machine:
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/1/8/319818.jpg
Why in the Wellsian butt-thunder is there a concrete slab at the end of the time runway? Why wouldn't they just leave the back wall open, or put in a ball pit or something? Why does the approved method of time travel consist of tying a time explorer to a drag racer and sling-shotting them into a giant stone wedge? They tie cushions to the goal posts at a football game, you'd think they'd at least bungie-cord a mattress to the Time Stone. "Hitting concrete at the speed of light" has to be just above "running in place" on the list of time-travel methodology.
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/2/0/319820_v1.jpg
If you aren't hip-deep in Jesus and dinosaurs by the time you hit this wall, you were never meant to be a time-traveler.
Also, every time someone successfully bursts through the fabric of our universe and journeys into the past, the rocket sled time car is nowhere to be found. They either fall out of the sky in some random area of Washington, or materialize in the middle of a busy highway with an 18-wheeler bearing down on them like the angry mechanical specter of God's vengeance, punishing the TEC for having the audacity to piss science into his face like R. Kelly in a labcoat:
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/3/6/319836_v1.jpg
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/3/8/319838_v1.jpg
And yet every time an agent returns to the future/present, they're back in the car:
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/8/2/8/319828_v1.jpg
Is the car just waiting in the time stream like a cab with the meter running?
