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KimLuster on Nov. 7, 2015
This story has been heavily dream-themed from the beginning, even though it's been a couple chapters since it's been broached.
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Movies and books where huge chunks of the plot are handwaved away as ‘Just a Dream’ for no good reason… I HATE THOSE!! (pretty much the entire movie of ‘Boxing Helena, a whole season of the TV Show Dallas).
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So if it seems like I’m ever doing that… Please trust me!
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Thanks for Reading Everyone!
El Cid at 8:23AM, Nov. 7, 2015
I've never been a fan of dream sequence endings. It's basically saying, "yeah we know you were all emotionally invested in all this dramatic stuff that was happening but... joke's on you!" Still, given the subject matter of this story, it's inevitable that dream elements will leak in. Dreams and reality are sort of one and the same for poor Kimber Lee... so "it's just a dream" can't be of much solace!
tupapayon at 7:22AM, Nov. 7, 2015
It's a dream within a dream... incepted there somehow... there are two sides of reality, the material and the immaterial... thus, everything is real... I mean, "What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
bravo1102 at 7:00AM, Nov. 7, 2015
The fabulous original Invaders From Mars(1953) was just a dream but the director and cinematographer knew how to drop hints and make it work. It can be a cheap shot or it can be a fantastic twist revelation, that's up to the creator. Oh wait of course it's a dream no Army officer would still be in his class A's at this point in a battle. So that's a symbolic officer archetype and it is just a dream. ;-) If this was a dream it'd make a great twist because where does that leave her in reality?
Genejoke at 6:21AM, Nov. 7, 2015
I did the whole dream thing in Underbelly, I think it can work when well done.