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Originally posted by Dazey:
The Wishverse is neither a parallel nor a divergent universe. If we imagine time as linear (which it isn't, but we perceive it that way), then we can picture the regular Buffyverse as a line on a page. When Cordelia's wish is granted, it distorts that line, pushing it off-track, as it were. When the wish is ended, the timeline reverts to its natural shape. However, the distorted line remains and rejoins the natural line, creating a sort of bubble on the side of it, which contains the alternate events depicted in "The Wish". That's what the pendant does, it creates little bubbleverses of distorted timeline...as long as a wish remains in effect, the distorted timeline continues. If the pendant is destroyed, the timeline reverts to its normal, non-wish-affected shape, but--and this is the key--the bubbles remain. They are not full parallel or divergent realities because they are finite, but they still exist. That explains how VampWillow could be brought into the Buffyverse, and also why that demon guy that Anya cursed showed up in "Hell's Bells", even though the destruction of Anya's pendant should have reversed the wish that made him. It did get reversed, and that guy (what was his name?) led his regular life and died, but the bubblebverse containing his demon self still existed, and he found his way out of it (we know it's possible given "Doppelgängland") to torment Anya in "Hell's Bells".[/B]
I am willing to believe in alternate/bubble universes, breaking of amulets, pretty much anything if what Joss & Co. offer us as long as at then end of S6 Tara and Willow are still alive and in love.
The only reason I'm holding tighter to the possibility of the AU theory is from a quote in the latest N.A. Buffy magazine, from Christopher Golden (who has written, many, many Buffy novels). He was discussing the process in getting Lost Slayer published and the difficulties thereof. It dealt with a future timeline idea he had bouncing and... well, I'll let his quote speak for me:
The other folks weren't quite as impressed with the idea as I had hoped. The series' writers had yet to put together a little episode they would entitle "The Wish", which would introduce Anya for the first time and -- more importnt to my purposes -- introduce the concept of alternate dimensions and parallel universes into the mythology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Now, I realize this did not come from Joss or Marti, so it isn't canon. But it does kinda fit into my theory. And it's just that. A theory. A hope. Nothing more. But if it is relevant and plays into the coming episodes, I'll be doing the Snoopy dance for weeks.
[This message has been edited by Corinthian (edited March 16, 2002).]
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