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Post by johnreiter902 on Apr 17, 2019 17:31:26 GMT
You know while I wouldn't want the various different versions of LSH to meet, I wish there was a place storywise for the version that appeared around the Zero Hour event- they used names like Livewire, Apparition, etc. I once put that version as a possible E-4 future but it didn't work out. Now I wonder if they might still exist in some alt. timeline. I thought our policy is that there is no single canon future continuity, since the future hasn't happened yet, and we don't want to constrain it, and therefore when we write stories set in the future we can write whatever we want. That's right. As long as the future has a past which is constant with our "present day" stories (time travel is hard on grammar) it is still a possible future and not an alternate earth. I have two theories for why we tend to see futures consistent with the time of the pre-crisis Legion of Super-Heroes. 1) becasue it is the most probable future, or 2) becasue time travel is more commonly used in that timeline then in most (some days it seems like any petty crook can steal a time machine in the 30th century)
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Post by jonclark on Apr 17, 2019 20:52:30 GMT
I thought our policy is that there is no single canon future continuity, since the future hasn't happened yet, and we don't want to constrain it, and therefore when we write stories set in the future we can write whatever we want. That's right. As long as the future has a past which is constant with our "present day" stories (time travel is hard on grammar) it is still a possible future and not an alternate earth. I have two theories for why we tend to see futures consistent with the time of the pre-crisis Legion of Super-Heroes. 1) becasue it is the most probable future, or 2) becasue time travel is more commonly used in that timeline then in most (some days it seems like any petty crook can steal a time machine in the 30th century) I'd blame Superboy. Since Superman had adventures with the team as a kid and the team came back a few times to visit since then, it might be that the cross-continuity strengthened that timeline into a more probable future. Technically Jonah Hex or Nighthawk as residents on the 19th Century have no set future (from their perspective). Either could be involved in an event where Toby Manning (future Terra-man) dies, be pulled forward into a 1940's where a US-German alliance is at war with a British-Russian communist axis, or meet a time-travelling child of Batman and Batwoman. They are all just potential futures. But if you have a JLA member in that same story they can't do anything that prevents the Earth-1 1980's we read about. In the same way everytime the legion interact with "our" present they would be pulling us closer to their future by the fact nothing counter to their history can occur while they are there
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Post by johnreiter902 on Nov 13, 2019 14:05:10 GMT
That's right. As long as the future has a past which is constant with our "present day" stories (time travel is hard on grammar) it is still a possible future and not an alternate earth. I have two theories for why we tend to see futures consistent with the time of the pre-crisis Legion of Super-Heroes. 1) becasue it is the most probable future, or 2) becasue time travel is more commonly used in that timeline then in most (some days it seems like any petty crook can steal a time machine in the 30th century) I'd blame Superboy. Since Superman had adventures with the team as a kid and the team came back a few times to visit since then, it might be that the cross-continuity strengthened that timeline into a more probable future. Technically Jonah Hex or Nighthawk as residents on the 19th Century have no set future (from their perspective). Either could be involved in an event where Toby Manning (future Terra-man) dies, be pulled forward into a 1940's where a US-German alliance is at war with a British-Russian communist axis, or meet a time-travelling child of Batman and Batwoman. They are all just potential futures. But if you have a JLA member in that same story they can't do anything that prevents the Earth-1 1980's we read about. In the same way everytime the legion interact with "our" present they would be pulling us closer to their future by the fact nothing counter to their history can occur while they are there I like that reasoning. it makes so much sense to me. So, time travel itself makes time more organized. That has ominous implications.
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