Some Bart and Kon from Teen Titans #88

[dreamreaver]

Hmph, photographic memory in fiction is only as permanent as the plot demands...odds are that all the stuff he's written down is going to play a part in Flashpoint...

...nonetheless, that ability would be really convenient for me right about now.

Comments

[elf]

Um, the future he visited is going to be retconned away soon and the only record of it will be whatever he wrote down?

(And geeze, Bart, why not look into sports scores? A bit of careful non-excessive betting could give the team plenty of operating funds without disrupting the timestream. Unlike, oh, creating transparent aluminum a few decades early. Or inventing a teleporter for Lexcorp to take apart and weaponize. Sports scores are, as these things go, non-disruptive future info.)

[icon_uk]

But it's NOT the future to him, it's as much the past as the present he's in now is. (And I can hear Stephen Moffatt going "How confusing is THAT?" as he (notionally) reads that sentence!)

Transparent Aluminium was apparently created when it was supposed to be, it's just it's genesis which is paradoxical.

If Lex hasn't bothered hacking the JL transporter systems by now, he probably doesn't care about it.

[elf]

It's an... alternate future? One that's fading from the timestream?

DO NOT TRY TO CONFUSE ME WITH YOUR EARTH LOGIC. I KNOW A PLOT DEVICE PREVIOUSLY UNRECOGNIZED ELEMENT OF TIME TRAVEL DYNAMICS WHEN I SEE ONE.

Maybe Bart was infected with brain-bleaching nanites? Forgetting the future isn't because of timestream issues; it's a symptom that he's soon going to regress back to Impulse?

[icon_uk]

Hey, if that's the end result I can probably live with it! I miss the kid who moves from concept to action without passing through that stage called "thought"

[elf]

Gotta have something hopeful to think about when they start tweaking the metaphysics.

I like the idea of "goes back to being Impulse" a lot more than "is retconned to be from the 21st century in the first place, then time-traveled forward, then returned."

[jlbarnett]

I thought that was his origin.