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[โ€“] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Completely agree! Though time travel wasn't a MacGuffin, it was just a plot contrivance. A Macguffin is an interchangeable irrelavent object used to drive the motivation for the plot. The "tesseract" in Avengers, or the "Philosopher/Sorcerer's Stone" in Harry Potter for example.

Sorry to be pedantic, I fully agree with your actual point, and just thought you might want to know.

[โ€“] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Lol thank you, I genuinely appreciate the pedantry