History Headscratchers / DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency

*** Actually actually, that was the point of the headscratcher, and it absolutely has everything to do with possibility. It's not a question of whether there is supernatural stuff going on, that much is always clear. But what is happening in this case is the first, and to date only, point at which the Universe's intervention in Bart's actions ceases to be simply "things falling into place" and outright changing a system from one state (three bullets left in a gun) into something it wasn't only moments before (at least four bullets in the gun). Ironically, the in-universe magic subtracts from the out-of-universe magic, reducing Bart from a CrazyAwesome CoincidenceMagnet to mere boring, InvincibleHero.

* What did they do with the mage's wand? Destroy it? Put it in a box?

* [[SarcasmMode It's time for fun!!]] So anyways, can someone explain to me how Dirk and Todd only lived through the time loop once? I assumed it was an infinite loop, but apparently it isn't, so I'm just wondering if there's some logic to the not-gradual build-up of Todd's and Dirk's or [[MST3KMantra if that's just how it works and I shouldn't be thinking about it too much]].

* [[SarcasmMode It's time for fun!!]] So anyways, can someone explain to me how Dirk and Todd only lived through the time loop once? I assumed it was an infinite loop, but apparently it isn't, so I'm just wondering if there's some logic to it or [[MST3KMantra if that's just how it works and I shouldn't be thinking about it too much]].

* [[SarcasmMode It's time for fun!!]] So anyways, since it appears that the time loop is all happening in one timeline does that mean that there's just an infinite amount of Dirk and Todd's doing the same thing, gradually building up? [[ClockRoaches It's not like the universe tries to fix this paradox]]. Because if this is the case, then that's a funny thing to imagine, just a bunch of future and past Dirk and Todd's catching up to each other as everyone else starts to notice and well, the time loop gets fucked up (because unless the universe conspires to stop people from noticing a gradual build-up of multiple people, which is implied to be the case with Ken and Bart, it's gonna mess up the whole thing). The future!Todd seen in the first episode would imply that the events that happened after said scene occurred after the moment, what with them walking away onto the docks and all.

* [[SarcasmMode It's time for fun!!]] So anyways, since it appears that the time loop is all happening in one timeline does that mean that there's just an infinite amount of Dirk and Todd's doing the same thing, gradually building up? [[ClockRoaches It's not like the universe tries to fix this paradox]]. Because if this is the case, then that's a funny thing to imagine, just a bunch of future and past Dirk and Todd's catching up to each other as everyone else starts to notice and well, the time loop gets fucked up. The future!Todd seen in the first episode would imply that the events that happened after said scene occurred after the moment, what with them walking away onto the docks and all.

* [[SarcasmMode It's time for fun!!]] So anyways, since it appears that the time loop is all happening in one timeline does that mean that there's just an infinite amount of Dirk and Todd's doing the same thing, gradually building up? [[ClockRoaches It's not like the universe tries to fix this paradox]]. Because if this is the case, then that's a funny thing to imagine, just a bunch of future and past Dirk and Todd's catching up to each other as everyone else starts to notice. The future!Todd seen in the first episode would imply that the events that happened after said scene occurred after the moment, what with them walking away onto the docks and all.