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User Reviews for: The Time Traveler's Wife

Funkybuff27
4/10  2 years ago
Calling it a romance is almost misleading. I guess it is romantic to the right person.

Because honestly, this whole thing just seems like a pedophile fantasy. Feels pretty gross.

Oooh no it's all predestined. 28-42 year old me, who's already married to this girl is gonna time travel to the time and place where she is 7, I have no choice or control over it. Better get to the grooming so that I can fulfill the self fulfilling prophecy marriage. Because whatever I do I can't change it. Oh and every time I time travel I'm naked too sorry.

All the arguments I've heard defending it like "he doesn't have a choice" etc. Is right up there with the anime "1000 year old god in a 10 year old body" excuse.

I know it's adapted from the book. I haven't read it, and I don't know if they presented this whole thing as a romance or a tragedy( I guess that would improve things?) but as of now the only conclusion here is that all of it was a conscious choice. They *could* have made it at least relatively normal, instead of repeatedly having a grown naked man meet a child, who becomes increasingly horny for him with every interaction.
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Reply by olilaz
2 years ago
@funkybuff27 She doesn't become increasingly horny for him while she is a child, it is only when she becomes a teenager and that is because he is a good looking guy. You can't honestly claim that if the roles were reversed, we wouldn't see the same thing occur. Also, he never has sex with her when she is a child. The reason why he is drawn to her past is because his powers are most likely tied to his subconscious, which would think mostly about the people who are close to him.<br /> <br /> Also, it's not the older version of him that is having a romance with the kid version of her, because they don't kiss and they don't have sex.
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Reply by Funkybuff27
2 years ago
@olilaz don't know what you mean. It would just as creepy and manipulative if the roles were reversed. A 40 year old woman going back in time naked to meet the 6 year old version of her current(?) husband. It's okay though, they're just spending time together while his entire libido forms around her(as the show states).<br /> <br /> &gt; You can't honestly claim that if the roles were reversed, we wouldn't see the same thing occur.<br /> <br /> Is it realistic to show a teenage girl being convinced by an older gent that she can get into a relationship with him? Probably. As is evidenced by plenty of the real life counterparts from both genders, the victims are often made to believe that they're just more mature than the others, something most if not all of us were desperate to prove to ourselves when we were overflowing with hormones in our teens. But you can't possibly call that shit romantic would you? Most would just call it predatory.<br /> <br /> And about the never has sex with her thing, I was being farcical I admit, but the latest episode dropped *that* bombshell and gave us the finger. Don't tell me you're gonna say its okay because she just turned 18. Fresh as they come amirite.<br /> <br /> Sorry I took so long to reply. I only realised you commented because I got an email.
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Reply by trakth
2 years ago
@funkybuff27 just standard recipe. Step by step keep showing something that is unacceptable. Every step stop making excuses a little more, to the point to finaly normalize it and get accepted by the crowed. In The Netherlands the pedophiles are the victims of a desease they can't do anything about it. They get police protection from anyone who wants to harm them.<br /> Yet all privacy infringing laws are to catch pedophiles and terrorists.
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Reply by TheNiall
2 years ago
"this whole thing just seems like a pedophile fantasy. Feels pretty gross" - Man who watched the whole show
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