I'm interested in why he didn't remember asking the boys to steal those books.
That, I can answer!
I'm going with the common time-travel convention that while the time travellers themselves are immune to any changes that their actions might cause in the timeline, everybody else will be not only caught up in the changes, but unaware that there were any changes.
Thus, in the original timeline, Giles gives Xander and Spike a list of six books that he remembers losing when Sunnydale fell into the earth, and which he very much wants to retrieve. Since Xander and Spike retrieve them from S3 Sunnydale, in the altered timeline Giles thinks he lost the books when the school blew up, and it doesn't occur to him to ask Xander and Spike to collect them.
See? Simple!
I briefly toyed with the idea of a sequel where it turns out that one of the books was the one that Willow got the spell from that she used to raise Buffy from the dead, and therefore in the altered timeline Buffy was left in heaven ... but then I decided nah, too complicated. *g*
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Date: 2005-11-24 08:19 pm (UTC)I'm interested in why he didn't remember asking the boys to steal those books.
That, I can answer!
I'm going with the common time-travel convention that while the time travellers themselves are immune to any changes that their actions might cause in the timeline, everybody else will be not only caught up in the changes, but unaware that there were any changes.
Thus, in the original timeline, Giles gives Xander and Spike a list of six books that he remembers losing when Sunnydale fell into the earth, and which he very much wants to retrieve. Since Xander and Spike retrieve them from S3 Sunnydale, in the altered timeline Giles thinks he lost the books when the school blew up, and it doesn't occur to him to ask Xander and Spike to collect them.
See? Simple!
I briefly toyed with the idea of a sequel where it turns out that one of the books was the one that Willow got the spell from that she used to raise Buffy from the dead, and therefore in the altered timeline Buffy was left in heaven ... but then I decided nah, too complicated. *g*