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Originally Posted by Duruss
Also Sylvie working at McDonald's in Oklahoma is incredibly pedestrian, which is the point. She grew up in apocalyptic timelines, always running and fighting to not die in said apocalypse or get pruned.
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But my point is it's only pedestrian to someone living on earth in the latter half of the 20th century. There's a billion other possible existences that are equally pedestrian from the perspective of the people in that time and place, or from the perspective of someone evaluating all of them equally. Hell, if you want to avoid future massively disruptive conflicts and struggles, marvel history has shown that earth is probably one of the last planets you should settle on. Plus the TVA no longer enforcing any timelines, there's no guarantee of something like nuclear war not happening on earth in the 1980s; so there were much much safer times to be living just in earth's history, let alone all of time and space. It's a case of the show defining mundane and pedestrian by the viewer's perspective rather than the character's, and was one of the few things that felt forced in an otherwise brilliant show.
