| The Big Bad |
05-03-2008 03:41 AM |
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Originally Posted by Wildcat
(Post 606666)
Nah I dont want a Bishop vs Future Bishop...the whole problem and what has me a bit worried about the new season is the fact they are going too acknowledge "Fast Forward".It just seems to be too hard to write present day plots and problems because of everything the Turtles know about the future cause there will always be "don’t do this/do this because it will alter the future" and there will always be room for ridiculous arguments about if something happens or travels through time will it will contradict future and present storylines.
Like the second comment on here...President Bishop travels back in time sees his evil-self so thats why he wants to become President?...well that’s impossible, at whatever point Bishop decided to become President has nothing to do with him traveling through time, thats saying...he becomes President, travels back in time to Present day and sees his evil-self and then decides to become President ???...he already became President for a totally different reason and may have even become President before time-travel was even invented....
See thats what I mean about storylines that will contradict themselves and arguments that will try to explain it all,which is impossible because at this point everything’s a mess, and why I wish they would just pick up after the Lost Season.
FF was, what it was...it had some pretty good episodes but its better left as its own side series.
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You're thinking too hard about this. All the writers need to do is to avoid creating obvious paradoxes (for example, killing of Agent Bishop or restoring Baxter Stockman's body) and everything should be fine. After all, what do the turtles know? That April and Casey start a family; that they, along with Donny, create O'Neil Tech; that Bishop and Stockman are still in black-ops until sometime in the 2050s; and the circumstances leading to Bishop's change of heart. Not only that, if the events of The Journal taught them anything, is that willfully trying to change the future is not a good thing.
Besides, what's to say they can change the future, even if they tried? So far, the series has used the Gargoyles model of time travel: you can change things, but these will result in the already-established present (or future); the second Savanti Romero story—where history is unchanged despite the turtles’ three-month long stay in the Cretaceous Period and butterfly effect warnings—suggests this is also the case here. So in effect, the guys are safe—they can do what they will without worrying about making Cody non-existent.
Put it this way: yes, the guys will change the future. What will it change into? Into the future we’ve already seen. Had the turtles not traveled to the future, O’Neil Tech would have most likely not existed, and the year 2105 would have certainly been far different from what we saw in Fast Forward.
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