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Originally Posted by issybird
I said upthread how extremely lame I found the DNA explanation to be. I have no problem with a time-slip and prefer it to torturous explanations, especially if there's nothing inherent in the explanation that will affect the story. A drug that opens the mind to perception of a simultaneous world? That's all I need to know.
But really, you could argue anything you wanted about that particular drug and variations, which sends you back to the, "it just happened that way."
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I suppose that
any type of Time travel is bound to be very speculative and the drug method does have some narrative advantages. Many time travel stories emphasise the problems of temporal paradox and the time loop. These are neatly eliminated by the drug and allows the plot to a focus on more naturalistic actions in both time areas. It even makes the death of Magnus a logical consequence which perhaps might have been more difficult to arrange with a simple time slip (which I still think would have been a better method).