The point is, the writer is being put into the position to give an answer specifically in relation to the topic, one they more than likely don't care about as something like this
can you prove that they don't care? considering that the massive plot points of ultimate alien and omniverse are about this, i would that they care very much
, especially if in response to a battleboarding question like these
how are any of these battleboarding questions? they are just asking an important part of the ben 10 lore and narrative
, isn't of concern to them and they don't have to answer truthfully with having the context of their series in mind when delivering an answer, but giving an answer to fans to get them to stop asking them questions like that. Aka, throwing them a bone.
see you would need to prove that they are doing that, we can say that Duncan at least isn't, since he consider twitter as a valid metod to give answers regarding the series
Since your side is the side that wants to use these social media answers as legitimate evidence, you are the one with the burden of proof proving they can be taken seriously and are not just some random, uncaringly made answers.
no, we have no reason nor proof of them being "uncaring" you are the one with the positive that they are "uncaring" so you are the one who has to prove it, i don't need to prove a negative
An example I can think of is Pokemon's case. There is a full on interview between one of the franchise creators, Junichi Masuda, and an interviewer when being asked questions about the Gen 4 Pokemon games, Diamond and Pearl.
In that interview (which is already a better source as, unlike social media, an interview allows for the creator to be asked questions, so it's permitted)
what is that supposed to mean?
, Masuda was never asked anything about the size of the Pokemon world or how big the cosmology is. Despite that, he gave a well clarified and detailed answer about what "the ultimate" was for Pokemon games, and spoke about what he tried conveying in the storyline for the Gen 4 games that involved the introduction of Space-Time to the series, where time and space were both infinite and that the deities (The Lake Trio, Dialga, and Palkia) were made to give balance.
That is an example as he came to that conclusion himself without being asked anything specific about the cosmology and it was well clarified.
and that makes the direct questions about the topic less valid because? both are doing the same thing in the end of the day, so again, i don't see the problem
This would then assume that Duncan and the other creators had the context of the series and it's storyline in mind when giving these answers on twitter, something that there's no evidence for.
you didn't adress my point, you said that the writers would likely not care about details such as the number of universes since it isn't important to the writing of the series, i explained why it is important in this case so by your logic they would care, i don't why being on twitter matter
But it's interesting you bring this up, so let's play devils advocate for a moment.
Look at one of Duncan's responses to a fan that I linked in the OP:
Notice how this answer to a fan is
the ONLY answer Duncan gives, out of all the ones posted, that is actually clarified and thought is attempted to be put in the answer and isn't just some one quick vague "yes/no" answer. This could be argued to be allowed as it actually goes deeper than the others do.
excuse me? "
the ONLY answer"? what makes this an answer and the others not? how is "yes/no" vague? if a question is simple, than then would only need a simple answer, if someone asks "are you a human being?" would say "yes/no" or would you explain why you are a human? same logic here, you have to explain this or else your point just doesn't make sense
But then also notice how this answer, unlike the one worded ones, is actually less clear and does the opposite? His answer here, unlike the others, speaks about physicist's having different ideas about the scope of the multiverse, where there could be infinite worlds but also be as low as only 12. This answer doesn't give any confirmation either way.
opposite? it coroborates, he says that the ben 10 multiverse would have as much as our own multiverse, to which he then explains what he means by that and talks about the different interpretations irl, what he says in in line with all the other answers and the show, since infinite is a posibility in real life, it is true in universe and it is the vision that they use for the show as shown in the other answers, since even in ultimate alien it is made clear that there isn't just 12 universes
If you want an argument beyond me just referring our site rule, then heres this. What's stopping me from arguing Duncan is unreliable because of his answers contradicting each other? Or how his only clarified answer out of them all doesn't give confirmation?
the fact that they don't contradict each other?
it does give confirmation, for their vision about the said multiverse in the series, that along with in universe statements and other answers from him and others, confirm that the "infinite" part of this explanation is the one used
Duncan's not the only one either. We can look at Joe Kelly's response to,
which doesn't even speak about any number of universes.
this part was used for the "the universe is made of numerous space-times universal dimensions" argument
the problem with it being?
All these creators giving different answers that don't line up with each other.
different answers? the only one that it is different is Kelly's, and even then she is not talking about the wider multiverse so idk why that's relevant
Not unless "infinite" is referring to "Ad Infinitum", which is 2-B. Time being infinite would be time going on forever.
which from an outsider of time viewer would mean infinite universes, since it would be seeing all of the past, present and future, aka all the posibilities, from which are infinite, the whole reason for why ad infinitum is considered countless is because possibilities go on and stack endlessly and keep creating more more with each timeframe, with infinite time the time frame for possibilities is infinite so if someone goes out of time, aka ben 10's time stream, all the infinite possibilities that would be created in the future would already be there
See above. And if Ad Infinitum speaks about alternate timelines, that makes my above interpretation even more of a possibility, that it goes on forever and each possibility is being born forever as it goes on, but does not reach infinite in number.
read above
This also kind of goes back to what Paradox says too when explaining the multiverse to Ben and NW Ben. Why would Paradox say "many Ben Tennysons" and "Many universes" and "Many timelines" if there are supposed to be infinite ones?
for a present perspective there really isn't infinite timelines, they just keep being created with each possibility, but from an out of time perspective, and with time confirmed to be infinite, there would be infinite timelines since all possibilities would already exist from this perspective, similar to dragon ball xenoverse
No. You can't reach infinity flat out by stacking a bunch of choices on top of each other.
you can if time is infinite in length
Says the answer? If the answer was serious, more than a word would be said.
says who?
A proper answer is a well explained one.
read above
And I don't think I need to explain how saying yes or no is not an explanation.
Plus, you can refer to the answer Duncan gave thats beyond a simple "yep"
yes you do, the question is of yes or no, there
isn't anything else they could answer instead of "yes/no"
did above