Originally posted by leonidas
i'm not actually discounting your interpretation, actually.
i can see BOTH sides of this.
i just happen to think BOTH are equally valid.
Cool.
Originally posted by leonidas
like i said,
i think the only way to definitively answer the question
would be to have had the future declared 616 in the arc itself.
without that i don't think there is anyway to say it was
Well that's where we're at, cause nothing is said on panel,
we onluy know it was 15104 all along becuase of the Two official Bios.
Originally posted by leonidas
or wasn't intended to be the 'true' 616 future.
Without a doubt, it was not.
I state that with 100% confidence.
Both Bios state, it was just another possible Future.
Originally posted by leonidas
basically you're saying it was an alternate future from the get-go.
Not me, I'm only conveying what Marvel said.
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The Official "Here Comes Tomorrow" Bio clearly states this:
"Here Comes Tomorrow ... Earth 15104 ...
First appearance, New X-Men #150"
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Originally posted by leonidas
gs is saying it is NOW an alternate future but previously (before it was altered) it was the 'true' future of the 616.
Which is contradicted by Marvel right above.
Originally posted by leonidas
i think gs's interpretation is what morrison was intending, personally.
Glad to see you add the "personally" ... 🙂
But in actuality, as you saw in the official "Here Comes Tomorrow" Bio,
it was not.
Originally posted by leonidas
to say he was intending -- as he wrote it --
that it was just some meaningless future
that had no real relevence to the 'main universe'
seems to demean the effort of writing the story in the first place.
morrison has always gone for the 'grand plan',
so, imo, gs's interpretation just . . . fits better with me.
Again, unless you can show me a statement from Morrison declaring that,
it's an inconsequential opinion, but respected.
This is what Morrison thought of that Reality, through the eyes of Quintin:
"If it was me, I'd just let it die"
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If that was 616,
what Quintin is daring to stae is,
"if it was me, I'd just let ALL of Marvel die"
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WHY?
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616 dies, everything dies:
"After my last report however, we were forced to reinspect our fundamental principles.
We concluded that the destruction of This Universe,
while still bounded by the speed of light,
would occur within an expanding simultaneity, which would,
paratemporally, have begun immediately following the initial
nanoseconds of This Universe.
And then it would Expand outward from This Universe ...
we call it 616 ... to engulf All Others ... "
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Dr Stange is confused with the Uatu's explanation,
so Uatu tells him in plain engilsh the fact concerning the significance
of the 616 Reality:
Dr Strange says,
"I do not understand ... please explain more simply"
Uatu explains more simply,
"If your World Dies now, Stephen, it will take Everything with it.
Not only This Universe (616) but All the Other UniverseS as well.
Everything there is, will End.
Or rather put it even more simply, Everything will never have been"
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Originally posted by leonidas
the bios you showed can STILL be viewed as accurate, because, again,
that future HAS been relegated as a 'possible' future by virtue of its having been amputated.
of course, your own view is also valid.
lacking the definitive in-story proof,
i think it boils down to a choice of equally valid interpretations.
I'm flabbergasted. 😛