Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

The remark argues that truly persuasive fantasy has a built-in immunity to fashion and historical change. If an imagined world feels internally coherent—emotionally true, aesthetically complete, and governed by its own logic—it does not depend on contemporary references for its power. Instead, it offers an experience of “timelessness,” letting audiences step outside ordinary chronology into archetypal patterns: wonder, fear, desire, transformation. The claim also functions as a defense of imaginative art (including animation and theme-park storytelling) against the charge of escapism: escape is not evasion but access to a different register of meaning, one that can remain resonant across generations when executed with conviction.