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//**Well, my question was rather: why an actual song from [[OTL]]? Because I feel like filing this under the “Citroën DS incident”, | //**Well, my question was rather: why an actual song from [[OTL]]? Because I feel like filing this under the “Citroën DS incident”, | ||
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- | Though the TV show criticized isn't in the alternate history genre, Hendryk' | + | Though the TV show criticized isn't in the alternate history genre, Hendryk' |
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Far too many parallels with [[OTL]] does not an alternate history make ! Parallelism should be used sparsely, creatively and wisely, otherwise it is a very lazy method for writing AH. | Far too many parallels with [[OTL]] does not an alternate history make ! Parallelism should be used sparsely, creatively and wisely, otherwise it is a very lazy method for writing AH. | ||
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==== An example of this phenomennon ==== | ==== An example of this phenomennon ==== | ||
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Or, to keep it simple, here's a more tamer example : You have a TL with a widely different history of French automobile manufacturers and companies, yet a Citroen DS exactly the same as (or heavily similar) to the OTL car shows up in production during the 1950s-1970s (and maybe even beyond this timeframe). | Or, to keep it simple, here's a more tamer example : You have a TL with a widely different history of French automobile manufacturers and companies, yet a Citroen DS exactly the same as (or heavily similar) to the OTL car shows up in production during the 1950s-1970s (and maybe even beyond this timeframe). | ||
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====See Also==== | ====See Also==== | ||
- | **[[alternate_history/butterfly_effect|The Butterfly Effect]]** - A storytelling convention which tries to find ways on how to avoid the cliché described on this page. | + | **[[alternate_history:butterfly_effect|The Butterfly Effect]]** - A storytelling convention which tries to find ways on how to avoid the cliché described on this page. |
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