DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '26 I => Current Talk '05 II => Topic started by: MagnusTrask on October 27, 2005, 09:53:14 PM
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Just a thought I'm throwing out there, for anyone interested... since I was bothered by Barn/Julia getting back to 1970 and their perfect, perfect reality where everything was fixed thanks to them... you know, Elizabeth knows them and is glad to see them even though all the events leading up to Barnabas and Julia being there in the first place have been retroactively cancelled out...
Well, my thought doesn't exactly straighten it all out, but it deals with the weird fact that Elizabeth remembers BC and JH as having been around yesterday, and the day before that, etc.. I decided I liked the idea of BC and JH each having at that point in 1970 two parallel sets of memories... one set is of the events as we all saw them, and the other is of the other chain of events that somehow got them to Collinwood in 1970, despite BC being cured in 1840, Julia not being drawn to Collinsport to investigate Barnabas....
They think back on their immediate past, and can actually distinctly remember it all happening, both ways. For them, it did happen both ways. If we were to stay in 1970, we could get caught up with the "new" past via their recollections, and consequences of those other events could start unfolding. We might even start to see flashbacks. Seems interesting to me.
Well, I haven't started a thread in a while.
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An interesting theory. I like the idea, and it would have been great to have seen how events would have transpired with regards to those two sets of memories. Time-travel on DS was always very strange and often inconsistent. I generally write it off as the unfathomable mysteries of time travel [hall2_smiley]
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I decided I liked the idea of BC and JH each having at that point in 1970 two parallel sets of memories... one set is of the events as we all saw them, and the other is of the other chain of events that somehow got them to Collinwood in 1970, despite BC being cured in 1840, Julia not being drawn to Collinsport to investigate Barnabas....
Such a situation came about in the movie Frequency after the main character changed history. He simultaneously remembered his original history and his 'new' history.
ProfStokes
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With every idea I have, someone always gets it done first.
This parallel memory thing would also mean yet one more opportunity for the writers to wipe the slate clean, and make a new DS "world", though with the same characters roughly. I suppose. Actually, some would probably be different.
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Such a situation came about in the movie Frequency after the main character changed history. He simultaneously remembered his original history and his 'new' history.
ProfStokes, you took the words right out of my mouth! When MagnusTrask mentioned "two sets of memories" that is exactly what I thought of, Johnny Sullivan telling his dad on the ham radio that he remembers when he was gone, and when he wasn't. [hall2_wink]
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Jeez....
Hope I'm not the only one on here who can't process this. Excuse me while I go bang my head into the refrigerator.
Signed,
Duh
[hall_undecided]
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Having travelled in time frequently, this kind of thing is old hat to me. I tend to forget the effect such talk has on the temporally-fixed. Sorry. Send me the repair bill for the fridge.
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Back to the Future was like this also with Marty remembering the old timeline and the new one.
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Send me the repair bill for the fridge.
[lghy]
That's mighty kind of ya!
Signed,
Living in the past