The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
More foreshadowing?
morriswalters:
All time travel stories are the same. In the case of the DF there is no reason to go forward. So if Harry must go, he has to go back. The only questions are how far and why.
For anyone who hates the multiverse there was a story that I read somewhere that says branching timelines are ghost timelines. That there is one primary branch and all branches off the primary eventually fade out or merge back, if it makes anyone feel better.
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 13, 2021, 02:44:30 AM ---The merlin is not that interested in free will. It is more like "She is dangerous: kill her"
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The Merlin believes that Black Magic removes free will.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 13, 2021, 06:56:53 AM ---All time travel stories are the same. In the case of the DF there is no reason to go forward. So if Harry must go, he has to go back. The only questions are how far and why.
For anyone who hates the multiverse there was a story that I read somewhere that says branching timelines are ghost timelines. That there is one primary branch and all branches off the primary eventually fade out or merge back, if it makes anyone feel better.The Merlin believes that Black Magic removes free will.
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The time travel stories and multiverse stories are a good crutch or an easy way to get an author out of a corner he or she has written himself or herself into. However one can go to that well one too many times. I don't think you can call flash backs time travel, they are simply memory.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 13, 2021, 10:48:45 AM ---The time travel stories and multiverse stories are a good crutch or an easy way to get an author out of a corner he or she has written himself or herself into. However one can go to that well one too many times. I don't think you can call flash backs time travel, they are simply memory.
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you say that, but what story and what author uses it as a crutch to escape what impossible situation they've cornered themselves into? That's not a feature of TT or multiversal stories, that's a Deus ex machina and it's generally just lazy righting. That has nothing to do with them as actual plot devices and such uses wouldn't be prepared for the complexity of multiple timelines. In other words, don't blame plot hooks for crap authors writing crap stories.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on August 13, 2021, 06:56:53 AM ---Merlin believes that Black Magic removes free will.
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I do not think he denies that Molly can be saved. It is just that he thinks the whole thing is to dangerous and the resources can be better used somewhere else. He thinks it is a waste of time and effort. He was under Peabodies influence at the time but I do not think that shifted his opinions that much. Only a small push.
I never read him saying anything about free will.
morriswalters:
He would have executed Molly without a single qualm for something he believed she would become. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
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