HBO’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” series brings a freshness to the story after the 2009 film adaptation of the same name. The version of Clare, who had known Henry all her life, waited for the man she thought she knew because young Henry was not the mature, sensible man she had known for fourteen years of her life. The one who had already married Clare in his reality. Even though Clare knew him, she knew an older Henry. Because 28-year-old Henry had never met Clare before the library incident, that version of himself did not know about the impact Clare would have on his life. He was taken aback when she started sharing her memories with him. After growing up and while working as an artist, she finally met Henry, a young Henry who had no idea who Clare was. Clare knew about various instances in Henry’s life that he would talk about after experiencing them. From a young age, Clare was attracted to Henry. Clare had a diary that was all about Henry and his visits. She used to wait for him with clothes, and later, he asked her to write down the dates when he visited her. Young Clare was initially scared of the man who spoke from the bush, but soon he became her best friend. Though Henry’s future self, who had fallen in love with Clare and had married her, traveled to the past when Clare was young. What was worse was that he could not decide how long he was going to travel it could be a few hours, or even weeks or months.Ĭlare became a part of his life once they met at the library Henry worked. Those were the things he had to learn to survive against the odds he had to encounter. Time travel had taught him to steal, fight, and run.
According to Henry, one of the major problems of time travel is that he cannot carry any clothes from the present time and always ends up naked after transporting to a different reality. Henry travels within his life span and mostly stumbles upon the significant moments of his personal life. It almost feels like a fit, and within a few seconds, he is transported to a different reality.
Henry cannot travel time at his own free will it occurs involuntarily.
Henry can travel through time, and his present self is often dictated by Henry from the future, who knows how his life is going to be.