Idyllshire: Expanded

[Shougun]

Harry Potter was one of my favourite uses of time travel for Fun With Stable Time Loops. I like how the second time around fitted into the first while totally changing their understanding of what happened.

All I thought was if children can do it, so easily... And for freaking "classes" lol, why not Voldemort, and with the might of the magic someone would have clearly used it to be on top.


Maybe how that specific section might work well for you but to me it just opened up way too many cans of sand worms. Way too easy, vague warning, given to kids, at first for a pretty LOL reason (here kid a super dangerous tool, go take some extra classes), etc.. big nope from me lol. Although I generally am not impressed with the use of time mechanics in stories, as they seemed they didn't need it and most usually just create more questions and problems that have no interesting solutions.



Not that I haven't been impressed or just went with it because because... But I've no eagerness to see someone leap into that . To me it usually just reads as a gimmick to make things superficially more convoluted or 'deeper' (but without actually obtaining value from that over just being extra to be extra). So it isn't a sin I guess (sometimes it's funny to see how wacky the rabbit hole can get), but as I said, I don't often cheer for the usage or find it added much value (I could have done without that whole bit in harry potter, giving children time turners... Yikes, to me. Just hand them the complete deathly hallows while we are at it, lol.)