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Post by dans on Mar 6, 2021 13:02:52 GMT
BTW, the Time Cop noted that it is impossible to 'change history' to prevent either Caroline's death or the death of the second Liberty Belle. But he found a way to 'cheat history' by swapping Leeza Gibson for Candy Dean the instant before Candy was to die. So he saved Candy but killed Leeza.
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Post by DocQuantum on Mar 6, 2021 23:19:31 GMT
BTW, the Time Cop noted that it is impossible to 'change history' to prevent either Caroline's death or the death of the second Liberty Belle. But he found a way to 'cheat history' by swapping Leeza Gibson for Candy Dean the instant before Candy was to die. So he saved Candy but killed Leeza. Time Cop probably doesn't want to acknowledge that some things are possible to change, but not all, in case any of the Sentinels try again.
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Post by dans on Mar 7, 2021 15:44:19 GMT
I don't like Time Cop. Surely, since he has a time belt, he could have found some way to substitute some other body for Candy, instead of killing Leeza. With a time belt, he could take as much time as he needed to find a corpse of similar appearance to Candy/Leeza. Say, here's a thought. Suppose the atomic powered weapons the Atomic Knights used to kill Leeza instead activated her metagene - and instead of killing her, put her into suspended animation indistinguishable from death by the medical procedures used in 1986... and sometime soon she is going to awaken in her coffin, changed in who knows what ways?
I'm not surprised that Candy wanted to commit suicide by switching places with her sister so she could be killed instead of Caroline. Who would want to live is she knew that one of her best friends had been killed in her place? And that the best friend had no choice in the matter. That has to be an incredible burden to live with.
Anyone want a story idea? Or two?
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Post by DocQuantum on Mar 7, 2021 21:36:37 GMT
I don't like Time Cop. Surely, since he has a time belt, he could have found some way to substitute some other body for Candy, instead of killing Leeza. With a time belt, he could take as much time as he needed to find a corpse of similar appearance to Candy/Leeza. It's probably impossible to cheat death according to some cosmic rules of time. If one person is saved from death, another has to die in their place. Tons of sci-fi stories are based on this concept.
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Post by dans on Mar 7, 2021 22:04:38 GMT
I really have no interest in writing about Candy Dean. But Time Cop wasn't attempting to cheat Death; he was attempting to cheat History, which is much easier. I don't think Time Cop made his best effort to save Leeza as well as Candy.
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