I fear for the future of time travel. Not the real thing: Thatseems to be coming along swimmingly, according to a handful ofrenegade physicists (more on that in The Future! rails of this column). No, I'm more worried about that venerable popinstitution fictional time travel. It's getting airier, subtler,distressingly less Rube Goldbergian: No fewer than four extantnetwork shows — Heroes, the soon-to-return Lost, and two newcomers, Life on Mars and Fringe — involve some form of time travel minus any obviouschronos-crunching machine. The new time travelers epoch-hop on purelonging, head injury, or strength of will alone — sizzlingportals and sparking gizmos are now rendered beside the point.Sure, some might see this as the genre maturing, but to me it looksan awful lot like downsizing. Hello McFly Whither the DeLoreansof yesteryear Outta time, it seems.From www.chinatopsupplier.com
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