Re: Time travel nonsense 4/24

In article <AceRj.227118$pM4.117081@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Bradster"
<bdhayREMOVE03@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Ken Arromdee" <arromdee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:futqnr$irt$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > If Kara was in the past and had sent a message to Swann, Clark
wouldn't 
> > have
> > noticed it suddenly appearing in the journal, he would have remembered

> > that
> > the message had been there all along.
> 
>  Not necessarily.  Time travel presents many paradoxes and incongruities

> that are hard to reconcile in our finite minds.  One rational
explanation is 
> that time travel results in the timeline branching which means that the 
> Clark from one timeline would be a different Clark than the Kal-El born
on 
> Krypton that Kara was trying to save.  The time travel paradox with the 
> potential for multiple universes could provide the writers a way for
tying 
> together multiple universe storylines. 

It's extremely rare that a time travel storyline actually works and the
writers simply ignore any problems. 

Such storylines are usually also used by lazy writers who have run out
of ideas that fit in with established storylines. This is because they
can simply push a big red reset button at the end of the episode and
pretend it never actually happened - a favourite trick of the
incredibly incompetent Star Trek's Berman & Braga (aka Beavis &
Butthead).  :-(