Talk:Time viewer

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This article is very vague and confusing. It needs clean up, and elaboration.

[edit] "Plot killer"

"The device is almost a \"plot killer\", because of the profound effects it has. It becomes impossible to use it as a \"normal\" feature of a society which we can understand."
^ I don't understand this sentence. Obviously, a setting where science-fictional devices are normal and ubiquitous would by definition not just be a copy of a real-world setting. And obviously there's more effort involved in inventing such a setting than in setting a story in a more mundane world. But the sentence makes it sound like the idea of a time viewer is unique in this regard, or that you can't write a story with a time viewer without making them ubiquitous. --DocumentN 16:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)