Part 1: This doesn’t seem like the same story as H.G. Wells’s 19th-century tale! But there's still a time machine, Eloi and Morlocks here, so let’s look at it anyway
It almost seems like they could have repeated the girlfriend getting killed some way or another a la "Groundhog Day" before the Traveler wises up.
But remember that this is not the first time Hollywood f'ed up a literary source, nor will it be the last...
And Wells saw this happen in his lifetime- the original film adaptations of "The Invisible Man" and "The War Of The Worlds" are miles away from their sources. "Things To Come" (based on his non-fiction speculation book "The Shape Of Things To Come") was a little more accurate, but only because Wells participated in making it.
It almost seems like they could have repeated the girlfriend getting killed some way or another a la "Groundhog Day" before the Traveler wises up.
But remember that this is not the first time Hollywood f'ed up a literary source, nor will it be the last...
And Wells saw this happen in his lifetime- the original film adaptations of "The Invisible Man" and "The War Of The Worlds" are miles away from their sources. "Things To Come" (based on his non-fiction speculation book "The Shape Of Things To Come") was a little more accurate, but only because Wells participated in making it.