"You really think he'll just leave?" Ford demands. "Take off just like that without some kind of parting shot? Even if I believed that Bill would kiss Stan's reality goodbye without causing a disaster, I already told you: this isn't about one universe! This is about another Bill being out there wreaking interdimensional havoc in spite of everything we sacrificed to kill him!" His voice is raised a little at the end there, whoops. Ford Pines: rational and unemotional, a creature of pure logic, always.
Ford feels kinship with Stan's Ford. They both shot Stan with the memory gun before the timelines diverged: according to the bifurcation theory of multiple realities, they were the same, at that point. But the individual Bills are responsible for their own actions after their deaths, after their timelines split off: his Bill isn't responsible for the say-murder-six-times-fast thing, just for bringing the third Bill back.
They'd been so close. If only Stan hadn't fallen asleep. If only Ford hadn't been fooled into thinking his Bill was too dormant to act. If only he'd gone ahead and made that stupid unicorn hair hat idea he'd scrapped. Ford can tell himself that it's no good thinking about if-onlys, and it works most of the time, just like it's helped him deal with resentment and anger in healthy ways all his life.
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Date: 2018-06-21 01:35 pm (UTC)Ford feels kinship with Stan's Ford. They both shot Stan with the memory gun before the timelines diverged: according to the bifurcation theory of multiple realities, they were the same, at that point. But the individual Bills are responsible for their own actions after their deaths, after their timelines split off: his Bill isn't responsible for the say-murder-six-times-fast thing, just for bringing the third Bill back.
They'd been so close. If only Stan hadn't fallen asleep. If only Ford hadn't been fooled into thinking his Bill was too dormant to act. If only he'd gone ahead and made that stupid unicorn hair hat idea he'd scrapped. Ford can tell himself that it's no good thinking about if-onlys, and it works most of the time, just like it's helped him deal with resentment and anger in healthy ways all his life.