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======Citroen DS Incident====== | ======Citroen DS Incident====== | ||
- | ==== Origin of term ==== | + | ==== Origin of the term ==== |
- | A term coined by [[offtopic: | + | A term coined by [[offtopic: |
//**Well, since I've only made it three quarters of the way into Season 2 so far, I'm not reading the rest of the thread which doubtless is awash with spoilers. | //**Well, since I've only made it three quarters of the way into Season 2 so far, I'm not reading the rest of the thread which doubtless is awash with spoilers. | ||
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He continued his criticism in a later post, postulating the main idea behind the term described on this page : | He continued his criticism in a later post, postulating the main idea behind the term described on this page : | ||
- | //**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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==== Explanation ==== | ==== Explanation ==== | ||
- | 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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+ | ==== Laconic explanation ==== | ||
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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. | ||
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==== An example of this phenomennon ==== | ==== An example of this phenomennon ==== | ||
- | Here's a somewhat extreme example, but it gets the message through : Imagine the last ice age never ended. The rough equivalent of European nationalities have a vastly different society, culture and religions than in the history known to us. Who knows, maybe the time is already the early 20th century and these people are still tribal societies and still follow prehistoric shamanism. Now imagine that World War One appears in this ice age version of the early 20th century as well. And it starts for the exact same reasons (imperialism, | + | Here's a somewhat extreme example, but it gets the message through: Imagine the last ice age never ended. The rough equivalent of European nationalities have a vastly different society, culture and religions than in the history known to us. Who knows, maybe the time is already the early 20th century and these people are still tribal societies and still follow prehistoric shamanism. Now imagine that World War One appears in this ice age version of the early 20th century as well. And it starts for the exact same reasons (imperialism, |
- | 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]]** |
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