I find I can't really think too much about the timeline-sacrificial characters
I find myself thinking a lot about things like timelines and AU. I've always found the concept of time-travel fascinating. And whenever there's a fix of the timeline in canon I'm always wondering what happens to the other timeline... does it disappear, never to have existed, or did they just create an AU that branches off the original timeline, that keeps existing... (and often it's a quite miserable existance, otherwise there wouldn't have been the need to fix it.) I think ultimately the multiple universe approach comes with less paradoxa. ;)
Have you watched SG-1? I once read an interesting fic that took place in the AU from the ep 2010, which continued to exist after the timeline was changed at a point in their past (our present). Even more possibility for fic, in the end. Which is good. :)
But yeah, I can't dwell too much on what happened to those characters like Rodney in Last Man, who gave themselves up for a future that's not theirs. At least Rodney still had Jeannie.
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I find myself thinking a lot about things like timelines and AU. I've always found the concept of time-travel fascinating. And whenever there's a fix of the timeline in canon I'm always wondering what happens to the other timeline... does it disappear, never to have existed, or did they just create an AU that branches off the original timeline, that keeps existing... (and often it's a quite miserable existance, otherwise there wouldn't have been the need to fix it.) I think ultimately the multiple universe approach comes with less paradoxa. ;)
Have you watched SG-1? I once read an interesting fic that took place in the AU from the ep 2010, which continued to exist after the timeline was changed at a point in their past (our present). Even more possibility for fic, in the end. Which is good. :)
But yeah, I can't dwell too much on what happened to those characters like Rodney in Last Man, who gave themselves up for a future that's not theirs. At least Rodney still had Jeannie.
Wah.