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The Butterfly Effect. The moral of the story seems to be \
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The Butterfly Effect. The moral of the story seems to be \\\"Don\\\'t screw with time travel\\\", but the way it comes off seems a lot more like \\\"Don\\\'t screw with time travel if you are incapable of thinking ahead to even the painfully obvious consequences of your actions.\\\"
Surrogates. While I guess there might be some sort of hamfisted relate-ability to real world concepts of online avatars and the dangers of forsaking your real body\\\'s existence, it just feels too divorced from those ideas upon examination to really be taken seriously as a non-fantastic aesop, especially with how the surrogates are used to interact with the \\\"real world\\\" rather than being purely digital constructs. That said, \\\"letting robot bodies live your life for you is bad\\\" utterly falls apart with the ending, both immediately and in the realm of fridge horror. The aesop really more reads like \\\"Because Bruce Willis\\\'s wife and he couldn\\\'t get marriage counseling, and some people abused the surrogates who questionably might not have needed them, the entire world should go without, including para- and quadrapalegics, those with other disorders making their bodies non-functional, severe burn patients...etc.\\\"
And toss in a healthy dose of blatant transphobia to boot. (Dear lord I hated that movie on so many levels.)
And come to think of it there\\\'s some other examples on the talk page here, as well as on the page itself.
Surrogates. While I guess there might be some sort of hamfisted relate-ability to real world concepts of online avatars and the dangers of forsaking your real body\\\'s existence, it just feels too divorced from those ideas upon examination to really be taken seriously as a non-fantastic aesop, especially with how the surrogates are used to interact with the \\\"real world\\\" rather than being purely digital constructs. That said, \\\"letting robot bodies live your life for you is bad\\\" utterly falls apart with the ending, both immediately and in the realm of fridge horror. The aesop really more reads like \\\"Because Bruce Willis\\\'s wife and he couldn\\\'t get marriage counseling, and some people abused the surrogates who questionably might not have needed them, the entire world should go without, including para- and quadrapalegics, those with other disorders making their bodies non-functional, severe burn patients...etc.\\\"
And toss in a healthy dose of blatant transphobia to boot. (Dear lord I hated that movie on so many levels.)
And come to think of it there\\\'s some other examples on the talk page here, as well as on the page itself.
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The quintillions author probably did miss the \
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The quintillions author probably did miss the \\\"million clone warriors\\\" statement in chapter 18 of the Episode 2 Movie Novelization, and the part where they defined the term \\\"unit\\\" as a unit of production in chapter 16, which is probably why Lucasfilm went with the lower numbers in the end (they were closer to the G-Canon) and allowed the other authors to retcon things in the first place. But there are a lot of people who don\\\'t realize this and simply think there was author favoritism. I\\\'m pretty sure the only author favoritism that went on was the one between the authors who did what they were told by their superiors over those who tried to hijack the setting for their own ends.
That said, there probably shouldn\\\'t be so many paragraphs on the matter, they should be pruned or merged. Edit: Did.
That said, there probably shouldn\\\'t be so many paragraphs on the matter, they should be pruned or merged. Edit: Did.
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Thing is, I\'m pretty sure the original author who put forth the quintillions of droids wasn\'t using them with the intent to have them dismissed as propaganda. The propaganda claim was a retcon.
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Thing is, I\\\'m pretty sure the original author who put forth the quintillions of droids wasn\\\'t using them with the intent to have them dismissed as propaganda. The propaganda claim was a retcon. It didn\\\'t go over very well with some people who were invested in the quintillions claim.
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The quintillions author probably did miss the \
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The quintillions author probably did miss the \\\"million clone warriors\\\" statement in chapter 18 of the Episode 2 Movie Novelization, and the part where they defined the term \\\"unit\\\" as a unit of production in chapter 16, which is probably why Lucasfilm went with the lower numbers in the end (they were closer to the G-Canon) and allowed the other authors to retcon things in the first place. But there are a lot of people who don\\\'t realize this and simply think there was author favoritism. I\\\'m pretty sure the only author favoritism that went on was the one between the authors who did what they were told by their superiors over those who tried to hijack the setting for their own ends.
That said, there probably shouldn\\\'t be so many paragraphs on the matter, they should be pruned or merged.
That said, there probably shouldn\\\'t be so many paragraphs on the matter, they should be pruned or merged.
