Is it definitively confirmed for PMAS at least that the other timelines exist and Homura could potentially return to them (the ones that aren't entirely destroyed at least, say Madoka died after killing Walmart but didn't witch or was too early). Because that.....
that is pretty horrifying, to say that rewinding fixes /nothing/ , it just creates (or discovers, a bit better) all new versions of loved ones to endure the same, all those past failures still present and unsalvageable with anything /less/ than Madokami level wishing. Forget potential-bomb, this one seems like it'd take out most of the team (Sabrina survives because she already knew it via you knowing peeps? >_>) and witch Homura so fast it'd make Gae Bolg green.
And it makes less sense to me.... whats it matter what Homura thinks, shouldn't her (admittedly impressive... whyd she have such potential?) wish still be that of Loop-1 Homura? If the observed effect is to step out of the timeline and hop to another, Homura's cutting adrift those others not connecting them. Madoka gets "leakage" in the way that Homura tracks in karmic mud from her past destinations while traveling but no wonder its just scraps of a dream or two. Madoka's potential makes far more sense to me if its a true loop, the one timeline bent in on itself in a spiral where the single timeline happens as it does only for Homura to yank it short from its never-future and thread it back in at an earlier point, creating a massive knot around the Madoka of this time period. (Relevantly, if she's just connecting existing Madokas wouldn't M have that potential from birth and get contracted before Homura's loop point?)
Kai, I think that you're spending too much effort on your essays. Seek brevity. I feel like most of your three-page essays could have better explained in three paragraphs. You're working hard instead of smart. Like,
don't be this guy.
From you right now, and Redshirt (and sometimes Onmur) always, this feels like an Answer looking for a Question. Whatever the context, whatever the vote, no matter if its a fresh topic/scene or the continuation of a long conversation.... always shorter, always summarized. Redshirt is spending more wordcount on the specifics of "how to hug and speak soft" than he is on what actual topic to cover. We already saw earlier with how this whole talk of looping and Madoka kicked off as a /tangent/ from Homura asking why we bother trying to save O&K, where people wanted to backpedal and shift to cover this. And now people seem to want to drop Kaizuki's ongoing plan midway and scramble to new theories of "why Madoka doesn't need to wish" without continuing the point , only having left Homura with a dream-bomb who's purpose went unfufilled.
Basically, that'd be twice in this conversation where we do something risky with a payoff in mind (use talk of our purpose to justify saving everyone, and mention the dreams to show how Homura's succeeding and obeying Madoka's requests already) only to drop it halfway because another voting block or a skittish mind-change takes over. Thats the whole risk that was broached earlier with shorter updates like this, and I don't feel that we are "reacting to new information" exactly when we keep mini-bombing Homura without ever reaching the (punchline-equivalent) that we did it for.
I have to honestly ask
@Redshirt Army , is there a potential situation or vote block where you /would not/ push to trim it down to 100 words and let Brina-pilot handle most of the work? Any occasion where, not split-second-decisions or fragile-Homura or anything to excuse, a longer detailed plan (say activities for the day, or science) would be valid that I'm just not remembering? Or is this favorite Answer just going to be applied to every new Question no matter what changes? (It feels a bit like you're defending your garage-dragon, is what I'm saying).
