Re: Time travel nonsense 4/24

"Anybody" <anybody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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).  :-(


I think it is coming here -- a reset.