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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
This is why people should study math. It's like Inception comes out and everybody loses their minds over some simple recursion. Is the concept of having something inside of something else really that hard to understand?
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayI hate time travel because I feel that, unless it's a Stable Time Loop or actually traveling to an alternate universe, it interferes with causality too much.
As I understand it, time as we experience it is a line going from point 1 to point 2. That means events occur in a set sequence. A occurs, causing B to happen in the future. If you time travel so that C happens instead of A, B cannot occur as it originally did, because You Already Changed the Past and A already didn't happen.
If time and causality don't work that way in reality, I don't even know what to think.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/The best time travel works I've ever seen are Primer and Achron. It's very rarely done right though.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayOne possibility is that cause and effect aren't as directly related, ie the Time Finds a Way method - if something in the past is changed something else will move in and cause the same(Or at least a similar) issue in order to justify the trip.
An example of this is in Night Watch - Sam Vimes goes to the past and becomes his own superior officer(Through a series of happenstances that are unimportant to the conversation). Except, he happens to remember that his superior officer from those days looked nothing like him. So causality is still relatively stable - the event leading to Vimes becoming a cop, and therefore returning to the past, are stable even if the details are somewhat different.
At least, that's if I'm remembering the book right. I may not be.
Either way, since Time as we know it is theoretical(That is, our system of measuring it is arbitrary and we understand it as a linear sequence of events, but we don't perceive most of the light spectrum so who's to say things don't exist out of our sensory recognition?), Wibbly Wobbly Time Ball antics are not wholly unreasonable.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.My main gripe with time travel in stories is that it often ends up being a plot tumor; as soon as you introduce it, it very often dominates the story, which is frustrating if the story didn't otherwise have much of a TT element to it. That and the existence of it often opens up a lot of plot holes unless the time travel itself is very tightly regulated.
Reaction Image RepositoryThe worst part is when it doesn't dominate the story. Because time travel by it's very nature will radically change the world and the plot, and yet it's most commonly just uses as an excuse to visit the Time Period Of The Week with no concern for the plot holes this creates.
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Yeah, that's the plot hole thing I was talking about. For instance, when we got the summary for "It's About Time", I really hoped that it wouldn't introduce time travel as a recurring element, because it would distract too much from everything else in the show. Time Travel in a work is very much an all or nothing thing, and there are some cases where I'd prefer that they just didn't bring it in to start with.
If the writers clearly didn't think something through, I'll usually just ignore it.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWho's approach to time travel has been "whatever the hell I feel like" since pretty much the start.
Really, the only problem with time travel is that it opens up the question of why the characters don't use it to solve all of their problems.
I actually sort of love time travel stories when its a major element that is properly thought out. But when it's just thrown in with no consideration for the effects it bugs me. Especially when they can't keep their own rules straight. Men in Black 3 was a recent offender of changing the rules halfway through and pissing me off.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter as long as the rest of the story is good. The time travel rules in Back to the Future make little sense but it's still a great trilogy of films.
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I played both, though I feel sonic has more personality.