IGNIS winter 2015 - 2016 | Page 10

Embed video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tH4Ih1hrNY Video: levelemup What If? “How's it going? Well, that depends. For me personally, it's good. Things are good. Unless, of course, we're in the possible future where the muscle boy near the door gets into an argument with his girlfriend, which causes her to storm away and bump into the guy carrying the stuffed mushroom, who then dumps the tray onto those sailors on leave and a shoving match breaks out and they crash into the coffee table here. In which case, I gotta move my plate like right now”. Griffin, “Men in Black 3” Ever thought of a really good comeback you wished you’d said to your frenemy? Wish you could go back in time to say it? If you did, what timeline might you end up travelling down? Alternate history stories are set in a world based on the real one, but one where an event – usually a key historical event – plays out differently, changing the course of history. Sometimes the history is changed by time travel, in others the stories simply play out against a different historical timeline. 10 IGNIS Some fantastic fiction, television and films have used this device – and some not so fantasti