During the year 2023, time and space travel was part of the plot of some of the most popular movies and series. From the gigantic version on alternative dimensions of Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse to the mystic world between worlds of Ahsoka. Cinema and the small screen delved into narratives that allowed him to reimagine reality. All thanks to the great topics of science fiction.
Of course, this is not something new. From its beginnings, the genre gave rise to the idea that time and material can be flexible and its rules broken. Even becoming a bridge to alternative realities — the case of The Flash— or new worlds, as he told it Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . What we assume is true, may only be a predictable fact, premise of Foundationor a great simulation, depending on the version of Silo . Whatever the point of view, everything coincides in one common element: what we consider tangible can deceive us.
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We leave you five series of Star+ which include travel in time, space and reality. From an animated classic that takes on new life, to a visiting alien trying to understand humans through time. They are all options that tell the world from a completely different sphere. Its main quality.
Futurama
Matt Groening’s animated classic, revived for a new season, is a rare journey through the ages. Fry (Billy West) is a pizza delivery man who ends up frozen by a cryogenic process and wakes up thousands of years later. The world he finds is not just the most pessimistic and cynical future imaginable, but a place where anything is possible. Which includes space, interdimensional and chronological travel.
But the strongest element of the series — which has become more adult over the decades — is its vision of life and its many facets. Each of her characters, of different races, origins and planets, analyze the world from often opposite angles. Also, they explore coexistence to an eccentric limit that is combined with very dark humor. Which makes each chapter an exploration of mass culture, time, science and the simple human condition.
Devs
Alex Garland’s story is mysterious in the way of his best-known films. But especially in the way he uses science to explore the idea of the future and alternative realities. The script he authored imagines the possibility that a predictive algorithm could allow us to understand the substance of existence through mathematics. That causes the enigmatic company Amayahave the power to influence events both in the future and in the past.
However, the creator and writer avoids commonplaces on the subject and leans much more towards the capacity of human beings to use such power. Which also leads him to question whether feelings, decisions or ethics can or should intervene in free will.
The series shows little and hints at plot lines that are not fully developed in its eight chapters. But even so, the notion of predestination, inevitable events and destiny are analyzed as part of a dangerous form of control. A theme that transforms the production into a philosophical reflection on technological ethics in the middle of a suspense drama.
Connect
The South Korean production incorporates into its plot one of the great obsessions of science fiction: immortality. At the same time, how human consciousness can be transferred and linked through unusual methods. The story focuses on Ha Dong-soo (Jung Hae-in), an evolved humanoid incapable of dying, whose eye is stolen.
The script, based on the webtoonof the same name, uses the violent event to raise the question about what defines identity. The android, who recovers from any injury and wound, discovers that, on this occasion, the mutilation he suffered is also a link with another reality.
Soon, Ha Dong-soo You will see that the eye – now in the possession of someone else – connects you with that person’s experiences. What everything that the world, time and even the human spirit believed in, changes completely. By the time he discovers the true mystery behind the inexplicable circumstance, the life of this creature who cannot understand death will never be the same.
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Luke (Christopher Von Uckermann) is a young seventeen-year-old magician, whose tricks seem surprisingly realistic. Which baffles Rene (Damián Alcázar), expert in stage tricks. But, everything will become more strange and will touch the limits of understanding reality, when the second discovers that the boy, in truth, has control over an inexplicable type of magic. In particular, the ability to achieve physical prodigies that could be considered miraculous, except for having a dark complexion.
With three seasons and a closed ending, the production reflects on the use of power. But also what we consider real and what might not be. Magic, which is closer to above-average psychic and physical abilities, becomes an unusual point of view on morality.
Luke and Rene, they must explore to what extent illusionism is a joke that seeks the complicity of the audience and not a real deception. Something that the young apprentice uses to his own advantage. Much more so, when the mystery about the origin of his abilities becomes more tortuous and harder to admit.
Resident Alien
Harry (Alan Tudyk) is a good doctor who has gone a long way to understand his patients. As long as the one that separates him from his planet of origin. The story, which combines a medical comedy with science fiction, also explores the meaning of time and evolution.
This alien, with apparent good intentions, must understand that his life depends, sooner or later, on his ability to understand our world. But especially, the way in which time passes and reality manifests itself.
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With only one witness able to see his true nature, Resident Alienasks valid questions about identity. Everything, related to how far we are from our place of origin and the way in which that affects our vision of reality. The most curious trip of all.