I prefer media to not have multiple universes or timelines at all.
Each timeline having its own muitverse makes no sense to me.It sort of does, it creates situations where hefty situations can branch off based on cascading effects. Ie, what if Peter Parker didn't get bit by the spider? Because it was just random chance and the spider could have bitten anyone.
It sort of does, it creates situations where hefty situations can branch off based on cascading effects. Ie, what if Peter Parker didn't get bit by the spider? Because it was just random chance and the spider could have bitten anyone.Doesn't the third option cover that? You could just say that multiple timelines are identical up to a certain point where they differ because an event turned out differently.
There is not time travel, you cannot go backwards, you can't go forwards, but you can possibly jump to different universes. It's a way where you can have some sort of smaller cascading effect but not have to rewrite the entire world, and it's a way to showcase how little any of our personal decisions truly matter overall.
The other ones just get kinda confusing.
I don't understand how the first two options are meaningful different to one another.First option have the entire multiverse share a single timeline, and other timelines have their own multiverses in which they share that one timeline.
Doesn't the third option cover that? You could just say that multiple timelines are identical up to a certain point where they differ because an event turned out differently.Yeah, it does. That's why I was saying it can make sense.