plotholes, discuss them here!

The middle ages is merely a general level of technology, something that much of Earth has long surpassed while the other shown worlds are still at that level. The speed of time's passage on those other worlds really has no impact on the technological level.

As for the passage of time, no clear cut information has been given, like 1 day on Earth is a week in Metamoor, and such. Heck, there's no guarantee that the passage of time is even consistent between the dimensions (read the Chronicles Of Narnia for one example). Would be nice, but then it's just something that can go wrong if not calculated right. Hard core enough fans will find the errors.

As for Phobos, what if he aged at a normal pace up to the point he did, and then used the energy he was draining from his world to sustain his physical body at a certain point? Geneticists already have theories as to how this works in DNA; just a matter of stopping a certain progression. No reason that magic couldn't be applied to reach the same ends.

Maybe I shoudn't have used the term 'Middle Ages'. I was not referring at the state of technological development, but at a certain point in time. What I ment is Metamoor is litterairy stuck in time. While you can see time at Earth and Basiliade as a line, time on Metamoor and Kandrakar is more like a dot. When you travel from the dot to the line, you can end up at any place on that line, but, when you travel from the line to the dot, you always end up in the same place.

Maybe I didn't use a good metafoor, but I can't think of a better one to explain my theory.

oh yea, Gali, my name is Tekira (well, it's actually Tessa, but that isn't the point), I can also live with Teki or Kira or something, but it's not Witchclass!

This post has been edited by Tekira on 7 November 2009 13:26

It isn't too strange that metamor is still in middle age because two different world could not develop in the same way. Still on earth you can find tribes who don`t know anything about outside world not to mention about mechanic and energy, when they see a plane they think it`s a bird.

I would say that Metamoor did not get techonlogy because Phobos would not allow it. He is a dictator, and letting people discover technology like we have would be a threat to him. Such as, if rebels got guns or snipers guns, then they could get Phobos no problem. So, perhaps if the people of Metamoor were not repressed by Phobos and were allowed to make discoveries and use science, they would become advanced.

Also, regarding the theory of Phobos suddenly becoming older. Then, wouldn't he have an adults body, but still have a child's mind? Looking at how he acts, he can't have a child's mind. The only thing I can think of is if, when he absorbs energy, he can also absord knowledge. But no amount of absorbing knowledge would get rid of a child's way of thinking.

Sorry about that. I was typing too fast.
As for Phobos forbidding technology, I don't think that was the case. If I were an evil warlord like him and know about the WITCH girls and their Earth, I would want my guards to have the most advance weapons to use against the rebels. That's kinda like like what those di Chimici family from Stravaganza wanted.

Oh.. You read Stravaganza? Great books.. Well, about technology, I like Tekira's explanation, about dot and lines.

I like her dots and lines explanation, too. But right now, they kinda reminded me of the "dots and lines" that my brother, William, said that he could draw on my forehead the other day.

Well, now that you mentioned it, now it doesn't seem like Phobos would need our "advance" technology in weapons because he already has these buffed-Whisperers, the Annihilators, to shoot magical lasers out of their eyes at his people already. Who needs guns when you got those walking beast to go around and do your dirty work?

however, even with Phobos's annihilators and magical power, I wonder if it could defend against technology? Say, if one of those atomic bombs was dropped on him, I don't think Phobos is a cockroach, so maybe he wouldn't survive that

Who knows? Maybe we should try and see if Phobos really is a "magical" cockroach.

That would be fun! XD

This post has been edited by haylinlover5 on 8 November 2009 21:32

There's another plothole: the wedding photo of Tom and Anna.

Tom remarried when Irma was three years old. That's what we read in issue 25.
In issue 38 we read that Christopher is Anna and Tom's son, which means that Christopher is Irma's half-brother.

On the wedding photo we see Irma, Tom, Anna, and.... Christopher!

Christopher was already born when Tom and Anna married. It looks like Christopher is a love child.

But there's a problem. In issue 66, when Anna met Tom, she discovered Tom has a daughter. On the photo he shows her Irma looks like being at least three years old.
Thinking about the time it took before Anna decided to live with Tom, the time it takes before a baby is born and the age Christopher had at the wedding, I believe Irma should have been four or five years old!

Yeah, I believe that one was an actual blooper in that issue. Most likely that the artist forgot to leave Christopher out of that wedding photo. And I thought that Christ is Irma's step-brother, not half-brother...isn't step-siblings are when you have the same father but different mothers, and half-siblings are when you have the same mother but different fathers?

half-brother is used when the siblings share the same father or the same mother. Either way, they are 'half' a sibling, not 'step sibling'. That is only used when a brother or sister comes into the family that was already born from another relationship or marriage, and doesn't share a mother or father with the other sibling.

That's part of the drama of this arc, and we're getting hints that it will be revealed in time. I think you're confusing "plothole" with "loose end."

loose ends can be dicussed here too, but Matt not saying anything isn't even a loose end anymore, in my opinion.