Post by dgrrr on Apr 13, 2007 18:30:15 GMT -5
First, let me apologize in advance if this question is addressed elsewhere. It must be. If so, just provide a link and I'll try to delete this thead. I did a LOT of reading here while waiting for my membership approval, and in the meantime I found most of the answers to my questions about DD were here already. But I don't remember finding this one.
It's pretty simple. As I understand it, the artifact must be returned to the PU, thru the body of the LR. The artifact is the jet engine that initially misses Donnie, and is then taken away to a gov't hangar (in the TU).
Therefore, the jet engine that comes off of the airborne plane in the TU is the wrong "copy" of engine. The other, correct engine -- the true artifact, which must be returned to the PU -- is still in a hangar in the TU.
My assumptions are based on reading that suggests the need to return the artifact is basically cleaning up after "corruption" rather than restoring the "imbalance" of having two copies of the same object in the same universe, as some have suggested -- in which case, perhaps any copy will do. (I do remember reading that, somewhere....)
The wording of the POTT emphasizes the return of the Artifact to the PU. It says "Artifacts returned to the Primary Universe are linked with religious iconography," and mentions the Artifact's "journey back to the Primary Universe". I want to say that the object, imbued with this terrible corruption, would have to be the same exact object. Because that's "neater", more satisfying to me. But I can't really say WHY.
What do you think?
Thanks
It's pretty simple. As I understand it, the artifact must be returned to the PU, thru the body of the LR. The artifact is the jet engine that initially misses Donnie, and is then taken away to a gov't hangar (in the TU).
Therefore, the jet engine that comes off of the airborne plane in the TU is the wrong "copy" of engine. The other, correct engine -- the true artifact, which must be returned to the PU -- is still in a hangar in the TU.
My assumptions are based on reading that suggests the need to return the artifact is basically cleaning up after "corruption" rather than restoring the "imbalance" of having two copies of the same object in the same universe, as some have suggested -- in which case, perhaps any copy will do. (I do remember reading that, somewhere....)
The wording of the POTT emphasizes the return of the Artifact to the PU. It says "Artifacts returned to the Primary Universe are linked with religious iconography," and mentions the Artifact's "journey back to the Primary Universe". I want to say that the object, imbued with this terrible corruption, would have to be the same exact object. Because that's "neater", more satisfying to me. But I can't really say WHY.
What do you think?
Thanks
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