The Doctor always travels with at least one companion.
In Poul Anderson's "Flight to Forever," Martin Saunders loses Sam Hull and gains Belgotai of Syrtis but then travels alone around the circle of time.
Saunders returns whereas the Time Traveler does not and the Doctor is on-going, I think, although I lost contact several regenerations ago.
We appreciate Wells's and Anderson's characters and wonder how the BBC might realize the undoubted potential of its serial time traveler.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I think we do see some speculations by the narrator at the end of THE TIME MACHINE wondering what might have happened to the Time Traveler.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Oh, yes. I quoted some of them recently when I discussed whether it can make sense to say that someone is NOW doing something at a different time.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
English doesn't have the semantics necessary to make that kind of conversation truly satisfactory. We would need something like the Temporal language of the Time Patrol.
Ad astra! Sean
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