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Glitchee123z wrote: I’m...just gonna assume that was a joke. The way you wrote that comment is what makes me unsure. Ok I'll go into it again, but this time being completely serious so there's ambiguity. There's and infinitude of things that could go wrong or take things in a completely different direction - but that could be said of anything on one level or another.

I'm just saying, the fact that RT is now leveraging a god-tier writing trope that's so powerful it basically allows you to administer retcons without them technically being retcons presents some startling possibilities, however remote. (And no, not "god-tier" in the sense that it's a good trope. There no such thing as one trope being better than another in absolute terms. I mean in terms of how it can be applied.)

There are some obvious limitations to using time travel, least of all the effects of postmodernism making it difficult for the audience to accept something that cleans up the narrative so effectively. (Poor Celtic has no idea how badly duped he is by his culture because of it, as an aside.) But given the nuclear ground zero of bad writing the fallen Fatman revealed the series to be, anything they do to produce a clean slate is going to be better than what we've got and he of all people has no right to complain.

Put simply, RT writers are saying, " You do realize this means war. Screw the rules! -- we're gearing up for round two, motherfucker!"

"And this time we're smarter."


 * studio building collapses behind them *

"...ish."