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Posted By: Andromeda_5[Kilo] | Date: 1/26/05 10:47 a.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Durandal & Rubicon (Forrest of B.org) : We just went over this a while back, which devolved into some thread about
: Literary-artistically, I have a problem with saying that a story's end point
They use that a lot in Star Trek, I find it quite interesting. Showing something that could-have-been without making it permanently screwing up the whole story. : Temporal-mechanically, there's no reason to think that just because the
Well, the character can only go with one timeline, (unlesss he's a paradine). So the other timelines wouldn't "dissappear", they'd just never again be experienced by the characters. : Lets take a simpler, more real-world idea for comparison, not involving suns
: Now, why would I suddenly find myself in the FIRST timeline, except now, the
Then you will end up dying several million times over, but the "story" won't focus on all your dying selves...instead you'll continue to live in the one timeline where things are changed. : Replace "gun" with "nova", "bullet" with
: Though if you ignored Infinity entirely, Marathon 2 never said explicitly
Pretty much.
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Durandal & Rubicon | tcm | 1/26/05 9:07 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Forrest of B.org | 1/26/05 9:35 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Andromeda_5[Kilo] | 1/26/05 10:03 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Forrest of B.org | 1/26/05 10:27 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Andromeda_5[Kilo] | 1/26/05 10:47 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Forrest of B.org | 1/26/05 11:18 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | thermoplyae | 1/27/05 7:28 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Steve Levinson | 1/26/05 11:41 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Forrest of B.org | 1/26/05 11:50 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Andromeda_5[Kilo] | 1/26/05 11:53 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon - well Forrest... | Blayne | 1/27/05 11:43 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon - well Forrest... | Andrew Nagy...mb | 1/27/05 8:24 p.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon - well Forrest... | Steve Levinson | 1/31/05 8:21 p.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Steve Levinson | 1/26/05 9:49 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Mark van Laere | 2/11/05 1:30 p.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | ukimalefu | 2/11/05 8:11 p.m. | |
embedded spam image? sounds EVIL *NM* | Andrew Nagy | 2/12/05 9:38 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | Roguexcx | 1/26/05 10:02 a.m. | |
Re: Durandal & Rubicon | tcm | 1/26/05 2:58 p.m. |
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