"Bluntly, multiverses kill emotional stakes. No one is going to care about a character if infinite iterations of that character could be running up and down infinite timelines. Stories must conclude, and they can’t conclude if another version of the character can reset things at a writer’s whim."
Some writers and filmmakers can make this work, though. A great deal of Michael Moorcock's fiction, for example, deals with characters who are said to be the same "person" through different physical and time incarnations...
"Bluntly, multiverses kill emotional stakes. No one is going to care about a character if infinite iterations of that character could be running up and down infinite timelines. Stories must conclude, and they can’t conclude if another version of the character can reset things at a writer’s whim."
Some writers and filmmakers can make this work, though. A great deal of Michael Moorcock's fiction, for example, deals with characters who are said to be the same "person" through different physical and time incarnations...