Yeah, I don't quite see where you get Batman from that piece either..
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"Walls are meant to be broken." - makes sense both figuratively and literally.

        "Holy antiques, Batman," Rick remarked.

The phrase itself is such a well-known clichee it's almost entirely transparent to a reader. :)

Apparently the mouth-working-faster-than-brain can apply to posting on the net as well :D who would have guessed :P My apologies for a truly dense moment there :P

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"Walls are meant to be broken." - makes sense both figuratively and literally.

(facepalm)

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Who's to say that in the UF universe, they haven't made one or more series about The Batman? Everything from "Real Crime" series to children's cartoons to even anime. After all, it's not like he's going to sue them in court if he doesn't like what they write.

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a) with the exception of Gryphon, none of the Surprise's crewhave been in the UF-verse long enough to discover there actually is a Batman 'here', so the comment must have been refering to a fictional Batman in their home universe.

b) Gryphon was basicly the original (UF) Batman while pretending to be Bruce Wayne early in the Exile.

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Just so. You are to consider, also, that if the SI Batman is fictional, it is certainly possible that other UFverse superheroes are also figures of fiction in the SIverse. Thus, the Surprises will have any number of surprises waiting for them in decades to come.

-Joe-

This is almost certainly the case; the Split Infinitive Earth was almost certainly a plain old ordinary Earth, just like the one we live on, until at least 1965, and the changes thereafter would have been relatively small until the actual FTL spaceflight era, so the comic books of the 20th century (apart, obviously, from the licensed Star Trek comics) will have existed there. Most have probably been forgotten by the 23rd century, as we have today forgotten most of 16th-century pop. lit., but the icons will have endured.

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Both UF-Earth and SI-Earth start to diverge significantly from our own around the early 90s - one had the Battle of Worcester and the fallout therefrom, eventually leading to First Contact and so on, while the other had the Eugenics Wars around that time and a much more aggressive space program (manned missions to Mars and Saturn, six Voyager probes, etc) before WW3 came along in the early 21st.

Forsooth!

I'd forgotten that the Eugenics Wars supposedly happened in the '90s.

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In view of the foregoing, I should suppose that one of these days, somebody will be able to find a way to move routinely between more, er, mundane universes. And then things are REALLY toing to get complicated.

-Joe-

So complicated that I'm likely to use my authorial fiat to keep it from happening, because frankly I don't need that tsuris. :)

Though I should point out that the UF version of a TARDIS (unlike the one on the TV show, which was nearly blown up doing it once) finds travel across time nearly as routine as traveling through it. There's only one Gallifrey, and from there you can get almost anywhere you want. This is unlikely to become of casual use to the everyday citizen, however.

As for the Valiant, I confess I've never really considered it. I suspect they put her in dock at Zeta Cygni for that part of the tour and just take the train; given that Cephiro is a Ptolemaic cosmos, they wouldn't want to risk any accidents with the crystal spheres by taking a starship in there.

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I was wondering that during my last readthrough of the symphonies. I actually kind of like that for a good while, you never actually saw how the protagonists managed to get from one world to the other - it just happened offscreen.

Having spent time and effort attempting to write stories with that as an underpinning concept, I must say; yes, very complicated. Something that I probably should've avoided if I'd realised in advance quite -how- complicated, but now it's either keep rolling with it or scrap the entire thing and start over, so I'm trying to make do all the same.

....*facepalm* Yeah, I didn't stop to consider that. My brain has this odd habit of reading something without actually reading it.

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