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123Chikadee:
@isoycrazy: Oh for sure. I also like the idea that Prime!Harry also gets to see how people look without his positive influence in their life. I'm still not sure if even Mirror!Marcone will get a sort of redemption, but you never know.
I'm still not wild about the idea of Mirror!Harry running around to kill alternate Harry's, it seems a bit redundant, I think anyone would just stop falling for it. Unless, he's doing it b/c he thinks all Harry's are evil or something?

Kindler:
Agreed. I often compare Ghost Story to It's a Wonderful Life, but that comparison might end up being way more appropriate for Mirror, Mirror. Harry saw how his death (and all of his choices from Storm Front ---> Changes) impacted everyone around him. Getting a look at how a different set of choices might have impacted everything could serve one of a handful of outcomes. Either A) it reaffirms Harry's confidence in the decisions he's made, and might go a long way in reducing the burden of guilt he still carries with him (which is slowly fading away, as seen in Skin Game—though he still has moments of doubts, like during his conversation at Michael's kitchen table), or B) it makes Prime Harry's choices seem a lot worse in comparison, either because Mirror Harry's world is overall better (for instance, the White Council has soundly beaten the Red Court, Marcone has turned his criminal empire into a force for Good, all three Knights are still alive and holding back the Denarians, but Mirror Harry has paid a tremendous personal cost for it (Susan died in Grave Peril, Mirror Harry is basically a terrorist on the run from Winter and the WC, Molly was never saved in Proven Guilty, etc.)

Personally, I think it'd be closer to A. I think Harry is very much the kind of person who would happily sacrifice his own happiness, but would view a world where either the people in his life are unhappy or flat out no longer (or never have) exist (Maggie, Molly, maybe others) as entirely unacceptable.

123Chikadee:
Ooooh, I like those options. I wonder if we'll get a combo of them somehow so that basically, Harry will be more mindful/long reaching with his choices but also won't second guess or blame himself all the time, b/c sometimes you just have no idea how something will work out.
But yeah, agreed about Harry's loved ones. Maybe he learns something from Mirror!Harry? I hope their conflict with each other is more than Mirror!Harry being some type of baddie. I'd like to see a different flavor of anti-hero myself, like its just applied in a different direction.

morriswalters:
If it follows the theme of It's a Wonderful Life then something will happen in Harry prime's world that will cause him to doubt the choices he has made.  If Peace Talks becomes a bloodbath that could be the inciting event for that storyline.  If on the other hand it uses Star Trek  for the inspiration it could  be more a story where the Council decided to become more involved in mortal affairs and became an authoritarian government.  His mother never died and so on and so on.

Kindler:
Jim stated that the Mirrorverse's point of divergence is a choice Harry made in Grave Peril. So everything up until Grave Peril happens the same way, it's only from then on that things are different. So Harry's mom should still be dead, but the Red Court war might've been delayed, the Summer Lady might have not gone schizo, the Denarians may have gotten the Shroud, the Darkhallow might not have even started (or was successful), etc.

Personally, I think the War was delayed until about Dead Beat or Proven Guilty, then the Red Court attacked when they were ready. I think the White Council was either taken out or damaged so badly that they're a shadow of what they used to be. Remember that attack in Dead Beat? The one that took out so many Wardens? Imagine if the RC had been doing that since Summer Knight, and opened with assaults like that. If the WC wasn't expecting it... well, Peabody very well might've ensured that they weren't.

I was never a Trekker, so haven't seen that particular episode (though we've all seen it parodied time and time again), but if there's an Authoritarian regime in place, I dunno if it could be the White Council. I'd think it'd be more like a Vampire Consortium (White and Red Courts working hand in hand; White Court manipulates the authority figures, Red Court works as the muscle). Meanwhile, Harry's one of a handful of Capable People standing up for Humanity. In his position, he has to make "tough" decisions. I can picture Harry compromising at each step, one at a time, slowly turning from the one we know now into the one Nicodemus wanted him to be. More... Knight Templar—like a more twisted Morgan—than Mustache-Twirling Villain. The kind of guy Odin praises Marcone for being, almost, except based on survival rather than organized territorialism.

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