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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6397966" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't think you can measure dramatic weight by reference to the number of in-fiction lives, or the scope of the in-fiction geography, at stake.I don't think there is anything as stirring in Star Wars as when Rick gives the nod to the orchestra to play the Marseillaise, although one is about an evil galactic empire and the other about an evil European one. Part of what makes the scene in Casablance moving (sentimental?) is that Yvonne, who has earlier been flirting with German officers, joins in the patriotic song. The scope of this change is one person, but it matters because the values are real, and the situation in which they are embedded makes it hard to realise all of them at once. (She has sacrificed one thing to realise another.)I'm not meaning to suggest that you disagree with any of the above (nor agree with it). But maybe it is something like it that&nbsp; [MENTION=5142]Aldarc[/MENTION] has in mind, in saying that the changes in Planescape ultimately aren't that significant?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6397966, member: 42582"] I don't think you can measure [I]dramatic[/I] weight by reference to the number of [I]in-fiction[/I] lives, or the scope of the [i]in-fiction[/i] geography, at stake. I don't think there is anything as stirring in Star Wars as when Rick gives the nod to the orchestra to play the Marseillaise, although one is about an evil galactic empire and the other about an evil European one. Part of what makes the scene in Casablance moving (sentimental?) is that Yvonne, who has earlier been flirting with German officers, joins in the patriotic song. The scope of this change is [I]one person[/I], but it matters because the values are real, and the situation in which they are embedded makes it hard to realise all of them at once. (She has sacrificed one thing to realise another.) I'm not meaning to suggest that you disagree with any of the above (nor agree with it). But maybe it is something like it that [MENTION=5142]Aldarc[/MENTION] has in mind, in saying that the changes in Planescape ultimately aren't that significant? [/QUOTE]

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