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Unread 04-26-2015, 09:07 PM   #13277
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EDIT 2: Like, you know the really easy way Hussie could've written this to give the protagonists a shred of agency and actually make this whole subplot interesting? Have Terezi, John and Roxy know that retconning is going to lead to a timeline with the 'birth' of Lord English, but have them talk it over and realize they miss their dead friends so much in this timeline that they're willing to do that anyway. Sacrificing entire universes to selfishly revive those they love and preserve the friendships that are important to them, costs to others be damned -- is there any more prototypical a choice for teenagers to make? It gives those characters sufficient agency that I'm like, okay, everything we just witnessed these past couple years actually is important because it's about those three characters -- explaining a difficult decision they made, rendering them less than perfect but all too human.
Okay, that would have been a lot more interesting. And also still play into what Hussie is (I think) trying to play up which is the whole concept of free choice/fate in a universe where you CAN technically do anything, but you'll doom your entire universe to a slow death if you do the wrong anything.

I mean, that's why I'm kind of okay with how it's been going down, though. The Great Question or whatever it's called, that we've been dancing around, IS pretty much, "Is it free choice if the choice is death for the universe, or do this other thing" and I think this latest sort of "WELP, Retcon power made the bad guy" is still sort of playing into that. And, to me, that's the whole motif of the story, which is why I'm okay with what's going on. To me, it's never been about character agency, it's always been about "What even IS character agency, when there are infinite timelines, and anytime they make the wrong choice, they're in a dead one?"
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