But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

Granada hurried to update the programme, with the hope of introducing more issue-driven stories, including Lucille Hewitt becoming addicted to drugs, Jerry Booth being in a storyline about homosexuality, Emily Nugent having an out of wedlock child, and introducing a black family, but all of these ideas were dropped for fear of upsetting viewers.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

The storyline received wide press attention, and viewing figures peaked at 19. 4 million, with Hillman dubbed a " serial killer " by the media.

Producer Phil Collinson marked the event with a sensational storyline in which the residents had to deal with a tragic accident and its aftermath.

This version generally followed the storyline of The Further Adventures of Dr. Syn and made it clear that Syn did not die or stage his own death: at film's end, he is having a cup of tea with the Squire, who admits to now owing a debt of gratitude to the Scarecrow.

The storyline would have seen May ran off with Dawn and Rob's baby shortly after it had been born.

Around 3, 400 complaints were received, with viewers branding the storyline " insensitive ", " irresponsible " and " desperate ".

A game of the same name developed by G-Artists and published by Bandai was released in 2005 for PlayStation Portable, but this is a sequel to the PlayStation 2 game, with a completely different storyline, setting, and gameplay.

A few days after the storyline began, Garfield is lying in his bed with a “ nagging feeling I'm forgetting something ,” with Odie landing on Garfield in the next panel.

Later, in the multi-issue, multi-title X-Tinction Agenda storyline, the X-Men and their allies rescued their teammates, Storm, Meltdown, Rictor and Wolfsbane, from Genoshan brainwashing, toppling the government after discovering their alliance with former X-Factor ally turned mutant hater, Cameron Hodge, and that Havok was one of the Magistrates since having his memory wiped by the Siege Perilous.

She has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix and is best known as one of the founding members of the X-Men, for her relationship with Cyclops, and for her central role and transformation in the classic X-Men storyline " The Dark Phoenix Saga ".

The third revision of the rules, Mage: The Ascension Revised, made significant changes to the rules and setting, mainly to update Mage with respect to its own ongoing storyline, particularly in regards to events that occurred during the run of the game's second edition.

The film combines the storyline and tone of a B-movie spoof with the budget of a blockbuster movie.

The character's long-running battle with his father ended with # 118 and with the main storyline resolved, the book was canceled with issue # 125 as Shang-Chi retired to a passive life as a fisherman in a village.

If a past storyline wherein a direct depictions of a then-current president or similar is referenced in a later era, it tends to become updated accordingly, sometimes with an " in-joke " acknowledgement.

The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

In 2010, his character was involved in the show's dramatic 50th anniversary tram crash storyline, which was recorded live.

Mathew Turner of View London said Cruz's character Gloria, a cancer-riddled prostitute, is " actually more interesting than the main storyline " while Time Evan's of Sky Movies wrote, " The Cruz / Ifans storyline – featuring the only two remotely sympathetic characters – never really fuses with the main plot.

Each of these series featured a wealthy, domineering, promiscuous and passionate antagonist as a key character in the storyline – J. R. Ewing, Alexis Colby, Abby Cunningham and Angela Channing respectively.

During season seven, a pregnancy storyline was written in for the B ' Elanna character.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).

This change in character would provide a springboard to the " Tragedy of Darth Vader " storyline that underlies the prequels.

In issue # 37, Moore formally introduced the character of John Constantine as a magician / con artist who would lead Swamp Thing on the American Gothic storyline.

* Official Crisis on Infinite Earths Cross-Over Index ( July 1986 ) was released as a one-shot publication providing summaries of every comic book issue connected to the Crisis storyline, descriptions of alternative Earths, and a list of every character that appeared in the Crisis series.

Additionally, in the Subpace Emissary story mode, Princess Peach is a very prominent character, being present throughout most of the storyline.

The third recurring theme is the use of dream sequences in which one of the castaways " dreams " he or she is some character related to that week's storyline.

The character of Timmy was intended to become an angel and remain a presence on the show, but this entire storyline was quickly rewritten after Evans's death to excise the character ( although one already-filmed scene was eventually aired, showing Timmy in Heaven, as a sort of coda ).

Vocal incidental music, which is included in the classical scores mentioned above, should never be confused with the score of a Broadway or film musical, in which the songs often reveal character and further the storyline.

In the episode " Sibling Tsunami " of the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character replied, " The usual, life, the universe, everything " a reference not only to Marvin, but the " Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything " a central tenet of the series ' storyline ( as well as the title of the third book ).

" The story deliberately included references to the contemporary political climate ; the character of Gorkon was based on Mikhail Gorbachev, while the assassination storyline was Meyer's idea.

The character made a brief canonical ' return ', however, in the 2009 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight storyline " Retreat ".

Despite the villainous nature of the title character and the grim storyline, Shakespeare infuses the action with comic material, as he does with most of his tragedies.

The game has a simple storyline ( though slightly differing scripts among the Japanese, European, and North American releases ) conveyed through intermission screens and dialogue interruptions, with character portraits and captions, triggered by approaching objects in normal play.

Annie Potts announced in 1993 that she would leave the show after the seventh season, due to the fact that the producers dropped her character's proposed pregnancy storyline at the last minute ; however, this turned out to be the show's last season, so there was no need for her character to be replaced.

Also introduced in the storyline is a brief appearance of a dancer named Arica in the palace of Jabba the Hutt ... a character whose true identity is that of popular Star Wars Expanded Universe character Mara Jade, established to have been present there in the Timothy Zahn-penned novel trilogy starting with " Heir to the Empire ".

" ( This character and storyline, which dealt with a Vietnamese opium smuggler who becomes involved in the Tate family through Jessica's long-lost son was eventually removed from the show bible.

During the season, the series attracted controversy when Rock Hudson's real-life HIV-positive status was revealed after a romantic storyline between his character Daniel Reece and Evans ' Krystle.

The storyline follows Samus trying to discover an " ultimate power ", while facing six rival bounty hunters.

This storyline led to Cage facing Abyss at TNA's Lockdown PPV event on April 23, 2006 in a Six Sides of Steel cage match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, with Cage prevailing.

During the conclusion of the storyline, in a moment of cowardice, Gluto freezes himself in order to avoid facing the events that culminate in the final battle between the Time Force Rangers and Ransik.

From there, they would become loosely united through Christian facing Edge's storyline rivals, leading to three more reunion tag team matches in 2005.

A new Killer Moth appears in Batman # 652, during the Face the Face storyline wherein he displays competence in hand-to-hand combat and the ability of flight when facing Robin.