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Originally Posted by Reckoner
Okabe took away all the wishes of his friends. He has had to entertain mental torment for weeks, something he'll live with for the rest of his life. The pain, the struggle, that doesn't go away.
It was not an easy struggle either.
So how can you honestly say that this is coming as cheap? I think his struggle is rendered meaningless if someone stayed dead in the end. It makes more literary sense for him to triumph.
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I think this is the general prejudice against time travel stories in general. Many sees in them easy reset button stories. But we have a tendency to forget the heavy cost that comes with them. Mentally, a time traveller drift away further from his/her friends, not only mentally but also socially, he have gained experiences that makes him even more of a stranger to them.
Even if said traveller thinks it would be a good idea to drop by any of the World Wars, and somehow manages to survive, and gets back in his time machine, he would never be able to erase the horrors he have witnessed and lived in those timeframes.
Back to The Future movies were actually light when it comes to the consequences on the time travellers, one have to watch movies like The Butterfly Effect to witness the horrors and the sorrows that comes with trying to Set Right What Went Wrong.
And people, remember that Samuel Beckett NEVER made it back home. So would we please drop some of those prejudices against time travel stories, especially the Easy Reset Button one?