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Plot: "Dead End Kids" wraps up.
Comments: Time travel stories can get tricky in their internal logic and execution. Most people have a blind spot when it comes to flipping around the time line in a story. As my friend Lou Anders would say "most folks still can’t figure out the ’note to self’ tricks Bill and Ted did." A time travel story demands a particular form of structural trickery. A good writer gets to twist the rules of cause and effect inside out or just make it seem that way. Joss (...)