The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

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Corrected entry: In the zoo scene, where Henry meets Alba for the first time, he already knows her name, and addresses her as such. She never reveals her name to Henry. He had just time travelled back from a time when he and Clare were still undecided and searching for names.

nipplezipper

Correction: It is a self fulfilling prophecy. As soon as he says her name it becomes her name. He goes back and tells Claire that her name is Alba.

Corrected entry: Wedding night: He returns from his travels while Claire is lying in the middle of the bed, watching T.V. with the left lamp on and right lamp off. He gets into the left side of the bed beside her only to be found on the right side of her with the right lamp on and the left one off during the same conversation and scene.

Correction: The first shot, as Henry gets into bed, is actually seen in a mirror. Once you realise this everything becomes clear.

martinharper

Correction: Moles can occur anytime in a person's life, and we are meant to interpret that Clare got the mole as she got older. Not a mistake.

GalahadFairlight

Factual error: When Henry travels back to when his mother is still alive and is riding the el train with her, when he gets off the train downtown there are color coded signs on the platform. Specifically, a brown and purple sign indicating that those color trains stop on that side of the platform. This scene took place sometime in the 1970s since his mother was still alive, but el trains were not color coded until 1993.

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Question: Why can't Henry save his mother from being in the car crash? Couldn't he have warned her when they met on the subway?

Answer: He could have had Claire distract her long enough to delay her car ride and miss the accident.

Answer: Of course not. Why would she listen to him? He's a total stranger. And if he tells her he's her time-travelling son, she'll think he's a nutjob to boot. It's well-established in the book that he tried everything to save her but could never do so, which made him recognise a well-accepted convention of time-travelling lore: big past events can never be changed. Diana Gabaldon wrote an excellent and extensive essay on time-travelling laws, which is probably still available somewhere on the Internet.

Sereenie

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