Comments on: Dave Davenport Has Come Unstuck in Time: August 18-23, 2003

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:02:11 +0000

That episode of Quantum Leap originally aired in ’90, three years before Dave’s point in external time.

By: Mental Mouse

Mental Mouse — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:07:24 +0000

In reply to John Campbell (jcampbel). This sort of thing is the basic for Niven's Law of Time Travel: "If it is possible to travel in time and change the present by doing so, then the only stable timeline will be one where time-travel capabilities are never invented, or at least never used." This rule isn't airtight (among other things, there are edge effects), but it's pretty solid unless multiple timelines can exist simultaneously. This was already suspected for the Narbonicverse, but Skin Horse has since made it canon.

By: So It Begins (soitbegins)

So It Begins (soitbegins) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:40 +0000

Mell?!

By: Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity)

Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:39 +0000

Well, future Dave is SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER evil and insane.

By: Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae)

Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:38 +0000

I'm with you, Joshua. Dave asking Mell out even once is mind boggling. What's even more puzzling is that he apparently survived the experience.

By: Joshua Macy (jamused)

Joshua Macy (jamused) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:37 +0000

The most disturbing thing about the future is that apparently Dave has asked Mell out. More than once.

Creeepy

By: Ed Gedeon (eddurd)

Ed Gedeon (eddurd) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:36 +0000

(TUNE: "Only The Good Die Young", Billy Joel)

Well, I'm steeling my nerves and I'm seizing the day!
Saying the things that I wanted to say!
Too many chances I let slip away,
Watching my life unfold ...

Now I'm zipping and slipping, and what do I see?
Mell says she won't go out with me!
I know that my past was just misery ...
But what will the future hold?
See, only the bad get old!

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:35 +0000

Saturday:

This is definitely one of the more memorable exchanges in this webcomic. Those two have surely had an unjustly rocky professional relationship over these long, cold, lonely years.

By: Justin Kane (avatarjk137)

Justin Kane (avatarjk137) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:34 +0000

What a twist!

You know, for people who have been ignoring the spoilers, and who got here from a spoiler-free source. Which is NOBODY.

By: Joyce Melton (halfelven)

Joyce Melton (halfelven) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:50:33 +0000

Majel has that Betty Boop thing going, doesn’t she? 🙂