![]() That means there is never any certainty that going back in time will change the outcome rather than cause it. Outcomes are, however, ‘sticky’, and causality is unknown. In this, time travellers can go back to before an event and influence it. In Sisyphus, the exact theory is never laid out, but it appears to be what I think of as the vinyl record or ouroboros theory of time travel. Not all of these are scientifically or logically plausible, but used right, each can make for a good story. I’m working on a time travel novel myself, so I’ve been studying the different ways time travel and its paradoxes can be treated in fiction. The characters are therefore, within the confines of the speculative reality of the series, believable. The heroes and villains here are nuanced, and that nuance drives much of the content of the series.Įven if some of the characters appear slightly caricatured to a western audience (I’m speaking for myself), it doesn’t sabotage the storytelling or the viewing experience as it occasionally does in other Asian fiction (I’m looking at you, Vincenzo). Here, the writers have made the effort, and provide more complex motivations and backgrounds to a number of the main characters, even if these are sometimes not clearly explained. Typically, I expect a half-dozen characters from central casting to surround two main characters who are more fully fleshed out. The characters in Sisyphus are – with exceptions – drawn better than I’m used to in Asian fiction.
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