It seems to me those are more fantasy based modern fiction than anyone actually thinking you are going to transported in time.
I've heard of legends about being able to see things going on - like you said, seeing a battle but that's considered a haunting and not that you are actually being transported back in time. Or there are reappearing towns(like Brigadoon:) but again, no one is actually being transported in time, it's just something that is invisible and unreachable becomes visible and reachable for a short period of time.
The way this is shown in the sides isn't anything like a haunting, or even the invisible become visible, it's actual physical time travel to a place in the past and being to interact with and potentially change things.
I googled it and I pretty much found nothing that fits into the already established ethos of Supernatural. The closest was something like astral projection but even that just involved being able to watch, not interact.
To me this too far fetched, it's Sci Fi, it's not horror or folklore based. Let's put it this way, there are stories about people being abducted by actual aliens(as opposed to frat boys just being made to believe that by a pagan demi-god - and that fits too, because it's folklore:) but that wouldn't fit on Supernatural, because it's a sci fi theme and to me it's the same thing with real time travel.
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Date: 2008-07-23 04:57 pm (UTC)I've heard of legends about being able to see things going on - like you said, seeing a battle but that's considered a haunting and not that you are actually being transported back in time. Or there are reappearing towns(like Brigadoon:) but again, no one is actually being transported in time, it's just something that is invisible and unreachable becomes visible and reachable for a short period of time.
The way this is shown in the sides isn't anything like a haunting, or even the invisible become visible, it's actual physical time travel to a place in the past and being to interact with and potentially change things.
I googled it and I pretty much found nothing that fits into the already established ethos of Supernatural. The closest was something like astral projection but even that just involved being able to watch, not interact.
To me this too far fetched, it's Sci Fi, it's not horror or folklore based. Let's put it this way, there are stories about people being abducted by actual aliens(as opposed to frat boys just being made to believe that by a pagan demi-god - and that fits too, because it's folklore:) but that wouldn't fit on Supernatural, because it's a sci fi theme and to me it's the same thing with real time travel.