Responses · 8:50pm Mar 9th, 2015
Alright then, only got one question, but that's fine.
SFAccountant ask:
I do have a question.
Why do all Mac's kids like being in an alternate universe where they never existed and their parents don't know them?
Really, that's the only thing that seemed consistently perplexing to me throughout the story. At the end, the kids seemed depressed that they were going home to their actual families and actual friends, and came back at the first opportunity. Why? Are their lives in their home dimensions that awful or dull?
I'll be completely honest here, I never came up with a good reason for why they did.
Looking back I could handwave something like "Due to the similarities in their brainwaves and what not, it naturally brings them together quicker", or "Their presence starts to screw with the fabric of Space/Time" but it's still me kinda bullshiting and not really answering it.
It's a plot hole that I never figured out how to even cover it up.
Maybe their father was dead in all those worlds.
Or the reason they could een appear in that place was because they were really unhappy with their own world, each for a different reason.
I kinda viewed it as them treating Rhapsody's dimension as a meeting ground. Instead of them going over to someone's "house" they were drawn towards a universe a little more neutral.
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No. one of the potential endings I had was that each Big Macintosh and his wife of that universe would have popped through the magic mirror to pick up their kid.
And the only one who really had a poor relationship with her parents was Gem.
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that actually makes sense too.
It wouldn't have bugged me so much, except that all of them were so hung up on their alternate-universe "father". I could totally understand being generally interested in exploring an alternate world with a whole bunch of inter-dimensional half-siblings (and whatever Belladonna is), but the way they seemed to struggle for Mac's attention and seek out their mothers - neither of whom had any memory of or real connection to them - made it seem strange to me.
Oh well. It was still fun!
perhaps because they have the traditional strong family ties saying goodbye forever to members of their family while surrogates of their parents are nearby seemed wrong to them