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Where have I heard this before? Oh right, that was the plot of Kamigawa block.
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Jan 7, 20149
fnord posted a message on [[BNG]] Planeswalker GuidePosted in: The Rumor Mill
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Roidh posted a message on [[M14]] Return of SliversPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from XenphireRemind me again why people are trying to argue against the Sliver's evolution in a fantasy-based universe with real world science?
Because it ends up going against my suspension of disbelief as to what differentiates each species within the this fantasy world. Despite the fact that this all exists in a crazy fantasy world filled with magic it still needs to run on internal logic that makes sense to people. If every time we had re-experienced Slivers they were given a radically different look to show how they evolved in the environment you wouldn't have people mad about this iteration because there was precedent that they dramatically changed form every time they came back, although I would question the choice of name if this were the case.
Instead we have had 3 different iterations of Slivers that all used a basic body shape to represent themselves so people have a specific look in their mind as to how they are supposed to be represented. In addition, since the Sliver's revival by the riptide project it was 200 years before we saw them again and in that time they continued to have have a unique, consistent body shape in all that time. Now you may be saying well those are the Slivers from Rath, these are the Slivers from Shandalar. To which I say that if the species has diverged this much they have ceased to belong to the same species at this point (it doesn't help that the name no longer makes any sense in the context of their new form).
This isn't even mentioning that these creatures seem to lack any internal consistency between each other to the point that I wouldn't even place them as being part of the same species. Oh yes there is supposed to be moving exoskeleton parts that allow them to reshape their bodies or something like that. Well that should have been more obviously clear because I wasn't able to see that at all just looking at them. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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I guess it joins Leovold as Sultai cards with abilities I firmly believe should be primary in white.
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(It's Thran, by the way, not Thranian.)
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TL;DR: they could have a Harry Potter (new IP that sets the standard in a particular genre), but are settling for a Percy Jackson (a less-than-exciting ripoff).
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And again, I do understand that keeping the same characters / names / etc help in the storytelling; as in, it gives people known quantities to compare between the two timelines. I'm just saying that, in my pesonal opinion, they went to far here, thanks to the incredibly high time gap and the cataclysmic proportions of the time-altering event. It's just not able to suspend my disbelief enough, due to how blatant those perceived flaws are in my eyes. It just doesn't make for good, or even passable storytelling in my eyes. Yes, it will vary from person to person, but I obviously can only speak for myself.
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I just want to point out that in the case of something like Back to the Future, it's a bit different. That movie doesn't really take itself too seriously, so when you see absurd stuff like Marty's image slowly vanishing from a picture when he intrudes on his parents getting together, you laugh it off. It's the same thing on something like Futurama, with the "Fry is his own grandfather" storyline. Personally, if someone is doing a time travel story, I'd rather it be something like that. If they're going all straight-faced about it, I'll expect them to handle it in a believable manner, and chances are they will fail.