OCS: Controversy over serial time traveler’s wife, responds creator

A time traveler’s wife under criticism from critics! Filmed from a 2003 novel, Stephen Moffat (Sherlock, Dr. Hu) tells the story of a romance between Henry (Theo James), who travels involuntarily through time, and Claire (Rose Leslie), who was only 6 years old. Was years old before she married him later.

A relationship that raises the big question: Is it a wonderful love story that can stand the test of time, or an unhealthy romance?

Taking an interest in time travel often means opening the door to a whole range of inconsistencies or moral questions. In the case of a time traveler’s wife, several critics have noted that regularly visiting a child in her 30s and then a teenager whom she knows is her future companion is problematic.

“A man over 30, who is practically raising his future wife from the age of 6 to become his ideal partner, has even more awkward connotations today than in 2003.“, We can read Time. “The duo create what the show wants to call friendship, but I prefer to see it as a sexual predator“- writes the journalist of the site rogerebert.com.

The Chronicle of San Francisco He goes even further and declares:The all-encompassing sense of exploitation in this series culminates in a soothing reflection of the relationship between adult Henry and child Claire. Henry goes back in time to befriend a young girl and seem to force her to fall in love.

This conspiracy point may have something to do with maintaining a timeline. But it feels like narcissism, highlighted by strong predatory propositions.

This prerequisite was disgusting in 2003, when Nieffenager wrote the book. In 2022, after the #MeToo and Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen scandals, while everyone knows it, a series based on secretly growing up and meeting a child in the woods (…) should not have been done.“

Note that the term “grooming”, which can be translated as “sexual predation” in French, is when an adult befriends a child and gains his trust to have sex, used by the characters themselves. But the series presents the situation as a “condition of love” rather than a “condition of sex.”

Indeed, when at the age of 18 Claire tries to have sex with 41-year-old Henry, he begins to refuse and realizes that he has practically educated his future wife and forces her to love him. But the latter replies that the opposite is true, that it was he who made Henry the man of his dreams.

He asked TVLine On these allegations of predation, Stephen Moffat, who is a big fan of Audrey Nieffenger’s novel, from which he takes the conspiracy and whom he believes “PerfectHe replied:

“It does not happen in a book, movie or TV series. She is married to him. He meets her in adulthood, falls in love with her, marries her, then, without his fault, throws her into the past and confronts the childish version of the woman he already loves. Moreover, in the serial version, he reveals to her that he is just a friend.“

And let’s add that the old version of Henry, who is visiting Claire, is “A responsible person who has very strict rules “. Then we conclude:”If one of these two replaced the other, it was Claire who replaced Henry. Claire is exactly the same person she was when she was a little girl as we are when we see her in her 70s. Henry flows around Claire like a river around a rock. He becomes the person he wants to be because he loves her.“

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