Crescent Pulsar S wrote:Maximara:Again, where is the logic to your conclusion? It's not a paradox to not change the future as it is known. It doesn't contradict anything precisely because she did nothing to act against it. The risk of creating a paradox would only be a concern if she tried to alter future events, particularly the kind that affected the past, which would have made Usagi aware of the future to begin with. So, she's not an idiot.
The problem is that effectively creates a time loop which itself is a predestination (free lunch) paradox. The Archmage in Gargoyles is a example of such a time loop paradox but time travel in the Gargoyles reality is
fixed time (past, present, and future are unchangeable)
I should mention that Sailor Moon
already changed events with her wish to be a normal girl. In the anime it is implied the events in the Beryl arc
never happened thanks to the wish which has its own set of issues. IIRC when Small Lady returns to her present it is implied that those events didn't happened either.
Of course as I have said before time travel can be the bane of a story if you are not consistent about it and Sailor Moon isn't.
The anime strongly indicates history was already changed in some faction. The old
(Probably A Stupid) Question on the Great Freeze thread went over the mess things are in.
Based on my research it seems that making Princess Snow Kaguya (Sailor Moon S: The Movie) the cause of the Great Freeze is the least problematic.
The timeline Wiseman and Wicked Lady belong to is the product of a 2002 Usenet thread called "Sailor Moon and historical tampering": The general gist was that there had to be "original" timeline and what we saw in the anime was a new timeline resulting from interference of the time travelers. That
original timeline as best can be determined is:
Sailor Moon R 47-59
only with a lull for the period covered by 60-89 (ie NO Black Moon Clan saga)
Sailor Moon S 90-111 with no Chubiusa as well as Uranus and Neptune dying and staying dead
Sailor Moon S: The Movie ends with Princess Snow Kaguya freezing the Earth (the Great Freeze)
Sailor Moon defeats Pharaoh 90 but only after it kills 90 percent of the people on the planet. Sailor Saturn dies in this battle as well.
Sailor Moon becomes Neo-Queen Serenity after thawing what is left of the world's population and then decides to Cleanse people resulting in the rebellion that ends in the exile of what will become the Black Moon Clan.
ChubiUsa is born and lives 900 years until she goes back in time (Sailor Moon R anime memorial)