Summary
"You don't screw with time," Mama Petrelli warned Peter -- technically, Future Peter -- in the season premiere of "Heroes."
Peter didn't heed the warning, and TV producers are ignoring it, too, using tricks of time to rev up storylines and add excitement to tired genres.See the full content of this document
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Now or When? Tricks of Time Keep Tv Shows Hopping
For television, embracing the fourth dimension can mean everything from setting a show entirely in the past ("Mad Men") or future ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"), to outright leaps, as on "Heroes," to flashes forward and backward, a la "Lost."
Flashbacks were hardly a new dramatic device when "Lost" began telling its stories that wa...See the full content of this document
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