Last Saturday, we saw that the traveler had awakened in a mysterious village, the home of this movie’s version of the Eloi. One Eloi, Mara, can speak English and is kind enough to nurse him back to health. She also helps him find out more about her people — plus, she knows where the time machine is. She’s willing to take him to the machine the following morning. It looks like the traveler is going to narrowly avoid disaster and will be able to return to his own time the next day. I won’t go over the issues with the scenes that lead up to this moment in detail again. But I do want to reiterate that the amount of luck the traveler experienced in just getting to this point in the story cannot be overstated. It’s lucky that, when he was knocked out, he woke up just long enough to turn the machine off when he did. It’s lucky that his machine didn’t fall off a cliff then, because it turns out that outside …