Quote Originally Posted by Miriel View Post
I think it's a cop out to say that. You can have a time travel storyline and still have it make sense without gaping plot holes.
I don't think you can, personally. I'm a firm believer of "If you're going to take a time travel story seriously, you're doing it wrong." Doctor Who has so many holes I don't even know where to begin, and even films like Back to the Future have plot holes galore. And I'm not talking about time travel in the sense of alternate dimensions like in Star Trek, nor am I talking about people who simply "travel" forward in time like Hope did, I'm talking "Oh, I'll just travel here, now I'll travel back to here, now I'll go to the future over here, now back to the past again here" etc. as is seen in FFXIII-2. It simply won't work. It's all just bluargh. Yuck. Bad. Don't even get me started on FFVIII and time travel/compression/etc. ¬_¬

FFXIII-2 makes no less sense than the Doctor Who series. Sometimes you just have to enjoy something for what it is and try to ignore the inevitable holes. I do agree the writing could have been better, though - I think most people agree on that. I think that SE aren't bad at writing out individual scenes and whatnot, but they aren't hot when it comes to providing a complete story. There's always something (such as this Cocoon thing) that they forget to actually elaborate on. I suppose it's not what they do put in, it's what they don't put in.