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Posted by CHris Blair on January 06, 1999 at 15:10:31 in 156.3.254.177:
Here are two experts from Mark's rules:
5) Don't make any permanant changes. In other words, don't have Kevin killed off, don't make Julius smart, and don't start a
romance between Lana and Stacey. If you do any of these things, undo them at the end of the episode. Put everything back the
way it was. (Note: I am exempt from this rule.)
6) Stay in character. Don't turn Rick into a ballet dancer. Always keep the characters' personalities in mind when writing them.
You can have someone's personality be altered temporarily through technology or magic (like Kevin's was on "THE
FRACTURED FANTASY OF CAPTAIN N"), but you must always have it changed back at the end of the episode. (Note: I
am exempt from this rule.)
Yeah, he would say that, because of his changing Lana and Zelda into lesbians.
I know, I said I would stop critizizing his work, but in a sense, I'm not. I'm pointing out his excuse for changing estabilished heterosexual oriantated characters.
By saying that Zelda is Bi/Lesbian, he's saying that it's so in the games as well.
Mark, you can't exempt yourself from your own rules.
Cynthia made a mistake in writing my rules for me. I am not exempt from my rules. Here's the same type of rule from my rules.(Same numbers too!)
5) Don't make any permanant changes. In other words, don't have Kevin killed off, don't make Lana or Zelda a Bisexual or
Lesbian(Mark Moore did this in his mini-series "CHANGES" and, in my opinion, it really kills Lana and Zelda's characters),
and don't start a romance between Kevin and Stacey, since they already broke up before Kevin arrived in the Game World. If
you do any of these things, undo them at the end of the episode. Put everything back the way it was. (Note: I have a limited
exemption from this rule.)
6) Stay in character. Don't turn Rick into a ballet dancer, or something like that. Always keep the characters' personalities in
mind when writing them. You can have someone's personality be altered temporarily through technology or magic (like Kevin's
was on "THE FRACTURED FANTASY OF CAPTAIN N"), but you must always have it changed back at the end of the
episode.
People, we know that Mark is very restrictive in his rules. Forbidding time travel practically kills 50% of the total plot ideas.(At least the people I've spoken with had a lot of Time Travel ideas. THis is just unoffical. The offical total, I don't know.)
I allow Time travel.
9) Time Travel. In "MEGA TROUBLE FOR MEGALAND", the N-Team is sent a week into the future, and stays there.
There's no travelling into the past, so no alteration in the timestream occurs. In "ONCE UPON A TIME MACHINE", Kevin,
Link, and Pero travel through time, but this was because it was Pero's video world, and time travel is part of the game "Puss 'n
Boots:Pero's Adventure". Kevin and Link returned to their own time at the end of the episode.As far as I'm concerned, only X
can safely travel back and forth through time, since he has the only existing Time Slider Chip(Yes, I know that time travel
doesn't exist on our world yet, but I believe it will one day become possible). So, no time travel in any episodes unless the time
travel is because of X(and in Power Knights, the Ocarina of Time and/or the Sword of Time). Also, time travel doesn't create a
paradox unless a person from the past dies while in the future, and their future self is still alive. A person can not be alive and
dead at the same time, and so it would unravel the entire space/time continuum. This also applies to killing a person in the past
when their actions are what cause your existence. Chonon didn't realize this when sending the termination unit into the past, and
if not for X, the entire universe might have been destroyed. Time travel will create alternate timelines, such as in the movie
"Back to the Future"; when old Biff went back and gave his younger self the sports almanac from the future, it created an
alternate timeline. This only effects going into the past, not traveling into the future. As Yoda said in The Empire Strikes Back;
"Always in motion, is the future," meaning the future is never certain or predetermined. It can always be changed.
Mark's theory on Time travel is pretty much, "You can only go forward, never back, or you'll destroy the past, present, and future."
That's bull. The only way to create a paradox is to have, for example, Kevin from the past dying while his future self is still alive.
now if say, Mother Brain went back and killed kevin in the past, it would create an alternate time line, such as in back to the future.
Mark, get a clue.
