Quote from: FenGiddel on Feb 29, 2020, 01:35:10 AMQuote from: Huggs on Feb 27, 2020, 11:57:00 PMhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200229/f4576a7ef0027b8c45a0a252d09703f3.jpgQuote from: FenGiddel on Feb 27, 2020, 09:56:53 PM
In an alternate universe, Parker won the argument.
And ate the something else.
I'm telling you, there was chemistry there.
Quote from: Huggs on Feb 27, 2020, 11:57:00 PMQuote from: FenGiddel on Feb 27, 2020, 09:56:53 PM
In an alternate universe, Parker won the argument.
And ate the something else.
I'm telling you, there was chemistry there.
Quote from: TC on Feb 27, 2020, 07:36:28 AMQuote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 27, 2020, 04:50:08 AM
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Actually, I can deal with it without losing my sense of direction. I mean, I know what's canon. I know it's necessary. But that doesn't deprive me of the benefits of being a geek. That is, I like the idea of alternate realities that can coexist with the original.
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Aha! According to my theory (actually a hypothesis really, since it's somewhat notional and I have no way of testing it to see if it contains any truth) you are from a generation that has been raised in the era of reboots, popular science discussions on the multiverse, EU material (including fan fiction), and alternative universe stories. The result being a diminunition of the importance of canon Congrats! You may be the future of fandom!
TC
Quote from: TC on Feb 27, 2020, 07:36:28 AMQuote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 27, 2020, 04:50:08 AM
.., I dig the idea of the Derelict as an artifact capable of distorting reality...with all and its impossible geometry. A bridge or section of the "original universe" which is much larger inside than out. In the interior, there is a variant of the original reality. It's similar but different.
In another of your threads you demonstrate some "what if .." questions wrt. Alien/Predator. I sometimes do a similar thing by making notes on various story mashups (it's a fun way of generating story ideas). One of them is a mashup of Alien and Event Horizon: So, what if the derelict comes from another dimension? That would make the Space Jockeys and the xenos other dimensional beings, who do not follow the normal physical rules of our universe (at least, not while inside the derelict itself, which is more of a dimension-hopping teleportation device rather than spaceship). So human astronauts who enter the derelict travel to a kind of hallucinatory demon 'verse. Kind of H P Lovecraft-style. And of course, Alien being Alien (and Giger being Giger), what they experience there is kind of deviant and perverse... but we needn't go into that
There's some crossover there with your idea.
TC
Quote from: Huggs on Feb 27, 2020, 11:57:00 PMQuote from: FenGiddel on Feb 27, 2020, 09:56:53 PM
In an alternate universe, Parker won the argument.
And ate the something else.
I'm telling you, there was chemistry there.
Quote from: FenGiddel on Feb 27, 2020, 09:56:53 PM
In an alternate universe, Parker won the argument.
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 27, 2020, 04:50:08 AM
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Actually, I can deal with it without losing my sense of direction. I mean, I know what's canon. I know it's necessary. But that doesn't deprive me of the benefits of being a geek. That is, I like the idea of alternate realities that can coexist with the original.
...
Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 27, 2020, 04:50:08 AM
.., I dig the idea of the Derelict as an artifact capable of distorting reality...with all and its impossible geometry. A bridge or section of the "original universe" which is much larger inside than out. In the interior, there is a variant of the original reality. It's similar but different.
Quote from: TC on Feb 26, 2020, 12:30:54 PM
I have a theory that there's this new thing happening in sci-fi/fantasy that is a fusion of reboot and alternate universe stories: Where in the past reboot was a dirty word and the one-true canon was all important, we are now getting used to the concept of different versions of the same story co-existing.
In fact, this phenomena has gotten to the point where actual plots about reboots as alternate universes have appeared (e.g. Into the Spider-verse, Crisis on Infinite Earths).
But even prior to this TV shows like Fringe, The Man in the High Castle, Counterpart, as well as movies like the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot, the rapidity of Spider-man turnovers (Maguire/Garfield/Holland), and reboots that ignore unwanted sequels (Halloween, Terminator), as well as one particularly powerful movie franchise that rewrites itself (Avengers Endgame); these have all had the effect of softening us up to accept "retellings" as legitimate entries.
IOW, canon just ain't what it used to be.
Just a theory
TC