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An odd feeling regarding movies, animation and reality.
4 years ago
A thought keeps coming to mind and puts a weird twist onto the world regarding media. But first we must imagine.
So imagine if you were to live in a world of dragons and you were a Viking. Then events happened and you and dragons became friends. (Referring to How To Train Your Dragon) You would be in that world but only aware of that world. Things like dragons and Viking battles and wonderlands exist, but things like TVs, phones, cartoons and such don't exist.
Put that thought aside and now imagine being a rabbit in a small group of rabbits. Running away from your home because one of your fellow rabbits had a vision of disaster. Having to find a new home which that rabbit also had a vision of. (Referring to Watership Down)
You can basically take that logic and apply it to any movie or show, animated or live-action. Rather the worlds depicted are happy-go-lucky or dark and grim. I get the feeling that being here, as a human in this human world. It can be viewed like we have access to windows of other realities. Because when one thinks about it even from the viewpoint of science, Everything can exist (With infinite universes.)
So then there is another version of reality where the How To Train Your Dragon world is reality, but they wouldn't be able to see the world of Watership down. Being able to view a window to that possible reality is available to us here as humans. As with the rabbits in that world, the world of How To Train Your Dragon doesn't exist to them.
Or even in this case. In the Star Wars edit about who shot first. In infinite realities, there would be a set of realities where Solo shot first, and then another set where he didn't. It's a weird twist because they are both windows to other realities, yet humans have the power to craft which reality that window portrays.
So imagine if you were to live in a world of dragons and you were a Viking. Then events happened and you and dragons became friends. (Referring to How To Train Your Dragon) You would be in that world but only aware of that world. Things like dragons and Viking battles and wonderlands exist, but things like TVs, phones, cartoons and such don't exist.
Put that thought aside and now imagine being a rabbit in a small group of rabbits. Running away from your home because one of your fellow rabbits had a vision of disaster. Having to find a new home which that rabbit also had a vision of. (Referring to Watership Down)
You can basically take that logic and apply it to any movie or show, animated or live-action. Rather the worlds depicted are happy-go-lucky or dark and grim. I get the feeling that being here, as a human in this human world. It can be viewed like we have access to windows of other realities. Because when one thinks about it even from the viewpoint of science, Everything can exist (With infinite universes.)
So then there is another version of reality where the How To Train Your Dragon world is reality, but they wouldn't be able to see the world of Watership down. Being able to view a window to that possible reality is available to us here as humans. As with the rabbits in that world, the world of How To Train Your Dragon doesn't exist to them.
Or even in this case. In the Star Wars edit about who shot first. In infinite realities, there would be a set of realities where Solo shot first, and then another set where he didn't. It's a weird twist because they are both windows to other realities, yet humans have the power to craft which reality that window portrays.
A great piece of world-building is when a world is shown to have their own myths and legends. In Watership Down, there’re the tales of El-ahrairrah, their version of basically a hero, and from that we learn a bit more about rabbit culture. Star Wars occasionally brings up what are considered legends in their own world, first notable one being the story of Darth Plageuis.
These are what helps the world feel more alive, seeing what they themselves view as fantastical stories.
Earth-Prime. The site of the biggest self-insertion fanfiction ever written.
In this context, we as humans effectively determine the fate of these universes. They can exist outside of our knowledge, sure. But that is unknown to us unless we bring it to the forefront. Its a crazy idea that basically makes us the architects of whatever Xenoverse exists.
In a nutshell, it started off as just something for parents to use to prep kids for mascot or theme park character meet-and-greets -- something to explain why they are the way they are without breaking any kind of immersion so they don't cry or freak out at first sight. It started as that, but as the hows and whys all piled up, it's become more of a philosophic coming-of-age story about understanding the bigger picture, and learning to cope, both with the unknown and unknowable, and with your own insignificance to the bigger picture.
One of the big questions is "Do the humans create the characters? Or are visions of the characters reaching the humans?" For the most part, they accept that the answer is "kind of a mix" in the sense that they believe in the infinitum; that everything can exist and the "creation process" just narrows down which worlds -- and which versions of those worlds -- connect to the bridge.
The other big question is "Why do they come?" Why do they put their entire lives on hold and exit their fantastical worlds just to put up with us? And, while a lot of them eventually have different answers for staying, most of them start by saying "Information" or "Curiosity".