Eriol you're missing the entire point. You need to understand one VERY important feature about time travel. That is the time-space continuum. And the principle behind it is that all time is happeneing all the time. I had a teacher that liked to use this example to explain it...."Right now, Ceasar is crossing the Rubicon" So when yuo travel from 65,000,000 BC to 12,000 BC you're not actually passing just under 65mil years. You're only traveling the time it takes for your method of time tavel to take you there (the time in the blue portal.) So even though you travel to a different time period, nothing changes because the events in the past are happening simultaneously. You're still traveling in the Lavos timeline so everything stays the same. Now if you took Ayla away and didn't beat Azala, and waited millions of years, then something would change.
I kinda wish I had a more scientific way of explaining this....I feel like I failed, but it makes sense to me.
I think that pretty much explains it right there. I totally agree with you, that's how I've always perceived time. For instance, as I'm typing this, George Washington is leading the Revolutionary War, correct? Its kinda hard to think about, but honestly, it doesn't take you over 65m years to get to 1000 A.D. does it? Of course not, else there
would be drastic changes in the CT world. If they made the game like that, that would make it all the more difficult... maybe even impossible. If that were true, no one would be able to leave their timeline without causing a serious screw up in time. Thus, there would even be no point in creating the game.
EDIT: I think I'm going to seriously start working on my own set of theories to explain some of the so-called "plot holes" we've talked about here. No offense towards any of you, but I grow very tired of seeing that phrase used to explain something seemingly unexplainable in CT. I've been playing this game since I was in the 4th grade (I'm a freshman in college), so just maybe I could come up with something. This isn't to take a shot at anyone or an attempt to "debunk" other theories, I just feel the personal need to write my own.