10 Questions
What is the main focus of the video according to the text?
Analyzing how time travel can influence causality in fictional stories
How is time travel portrayed in Ender's Game according to the text?
The characters experience time dilation, allowing them to travel forward in time at different rates
What is a key similarity between the time travel in Ender's Game and the original Planet of the Apes film?
The characters in both stories experience time dilation, allowing them to travel forward in time
What are the two big distinguishing features between different types of time travel in fiction?
The impact of time travel on causality and the ability to change the past
What is the main purpose of the video according to the text?
To discuss the different ways time travel is portrayed in various fictional stories
According to the passage, what is one distinguishing feature of time travel?
Whether the time traveler is there when history happens the 'first time around'
What does the passage say about whose actions are allowed to move history onto a different trajectory when someone is time traveling?
Both the time traveler's actions and the actions of people in the original timeline can move history onto a different trajectory
What is an example of 'do-over' time travel given in the passage?
Groundhog Day
In the video game Braid, what happens when the time-traveling version of the player goes back to the past?
The past version of the player has no free will and just does exactly what the player did the first time around
According to the passage, what kind of time travel is where the very act of going to the past or future creates a fully new trajectory of history?
Time travel where the time-traveling version of the player wasn't there the first time around
Explore how time travel influences causality and plot in various fictional universes. Spoilers ahead as we delve into different stories such as 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card.
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