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Subj : Re: What TPTB Coulda Done
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Ellen K Hursh
Date : Sun Oct 02 2005 00:16:10

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

Dropping The Helicopter wrote:
> npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> > Was just thinking about possible storylines involving a surrogate
> > arrangment that would have been
> > a) more interesting
> > b) more believable
> > c) more compelling and emotional.
> >
> [snip]
> > Any other ideas?
>
> Now that you ask, yes.  TPTB should have instead:
>
> 1.  Built a time machine.
> 2.  Went back in time.
> 3.  Murdered their grandfathers.
> 4.  Thus preventing their own birth.
> 5.  Thus preventing them from ruining ER.
>
> Frankly I can see no flaws in this plan.

Intriguing idea, but there *is* a flaw:  the female ancestor is the one
to eliminate, to ensure the desired disruption of the timeline.
Maternal ancestry is, barring adoption or switched babies or what-not,
certain, but it does no good to go back in time and murder Granny's
husband if the old gal was screwing the mailman on the side.

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