boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (08/17/85)
> From: harry@ucbarpa >>(1) In the issue in which Rachel first appears in the present (#184, I think), >>she freaks out when she sees a news report on the tv about Senator Kelly and >>his Mutant Control Bill. In *her* time stream, Kelly was killed by the Evil >>Mutants, whereas in "ours", the X-Men saved him. > > I had forgotten about that, BUT, the Evil Mutants are nothing if not > persistant, and could yet do him in. In fact, Our Heros are becoming > increasingly disillusioned about the rest of the world hating them. > Next, time they might say the h*ll with it, and let the Evil Mutants > kill Sen. Kelly. That *still* wouldn't make Rachel's past "our" future. In her past, Kelly was killed at a specific point in time --- at the Congressional Hearings on Mutants that took place in X-MEN #142. Since the X-Men stopped that assassination, our future *can't* be Rachel's past. It's as if someone went back to 1865 and stopped John Wilkes Booth from shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theater, only to have Booth try again and succeed a month later. Lincoln would still be dead, but it wouldn't be the past as we know it. >>(2) In the same issue, she has a flashback >>in which she recalls the death of Xavier in a govern- >>mental (?) attack on the mansion. In the current time stream, Xavier is >>(from rumors ... ) going to bite the big one in #200. > > I'd forgotten that too. I suppose I could invent a scenario to get around > this, but it would have to be pretty far-fetched. Exactly, it would have to be far-fetched. And Occam's Razor suggests that the most likely explanation is the simplest. In this case, the simplest is that Rachel's world is an alternate future from the rest of the X-Men's. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA