Perhaps it’s not clearly flagged as a shared, internet type cyberspace. Interesting. The text does explicitly attempt to explain the concept on (I think) a couple of occasions, although the explanation given “…a fully immersive VR installed in a breathable nanite mist covering Gotham, but it has some weird properties science finds it difficult to account for” is purposefully incomplete, and doesn’t touch on the shared aspect. I think I’d been assuming that people would pick that up from the action, i.e. Batman and Robin referring to their bodies as hard copies, and acting *together* in the Toytown segments. There’s also a lot of references to Toytown as a place (rather than a state), and in part 4 talk of shopping (connotes to an Internet type environment), the suggestion that lovers can go there together, the “Toytown lecture” Robin gives to the GCPD “special task force”, and the way that the Sensei’s attack effects everyone who is using Toytown. Finally, I think Amy was just assuming, given the story’s gesturing towards cyberpunk and our contemporary everyday engagement with virtual environments, that people would simply assume a shared dimension.
Despite all that, I can see how a few words nailing it’s popularly understood nature down wouldn’t go amiss. |
