Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Outer Limits: "The Man Who Was Never Born"

What I thought was most interesting about this episode was that it had a different method of time travel than everything else we've read or watched, and he traveled to the future, rather than the past. A man was traveling through space, when, without realizing it, he went through some kind of disturbance type thing which caused him to travel into the future. Once there he finds out that the human race is almost extinct because of one man who messed around with some extraterrestrial genes. The one 'human' he does meet looks nothing like a human. This makes him want to go back in time and warn people of what is going to happen, so it can be stopped. He takes the future human, named Andro with him. But when they are traveling back,  for some reason the man who originally came to the future, dies. So Andro is left alone in the spaceship. He ends up back on Earth in the past and has to use 'hypnotic suggestion' so people don't see what he actually looks like. He soon meets a girl and falls in love with her, but he soon figures out that she is going to be the mother of the man who created all the problems. And she is about to get married to the father-to-be of that man. Andro tries to prevent this from happening by causing a commotion at their wedding. He runs away and the girl follows him. She says that she doesn't think she ever really loved her fiance and he tells her the truth about where he came from and why he came. He says that he has to leave and she convinces him to let her go with. They are traveling back to the future when Andro starts to disappear. This was because he prevented this baby from being born, which in turn created a world where Andro was never born. And this leaves the girl floating through space, alone.

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