Although actually doing that would probably be impossible....
But it would be fun to watch them try.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Aug 24, 2005 7:01:26 am PDT #843 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Nilly - Aug 24, 2005 7:03:17 am PDT #844 of 10002
Swouncing
Although actually doing that would probably be impossible....
For a start, they'll have to be so identicle, they'll be actually switchable (is that a word?) and nobody will be able to tell either of them apart. That's already hard.
[Edit: I've watched "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" last night. Now I imagine the electrons as Oompa-Loompas. Who knew electrons sing?]
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2005 7:17:27 am PDT #845 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's my best guess at why the universe is full of shit we can't use.
My best guess is that not only is it probably not about me, it's not about us. There's too much out there for me to feel that I'm important to anyone but myself, and just marginally relevant to some of the people I've interacted with so far.
Scrappy - Aug 24, 2005 7:23:43 am PDT #846 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
ita, you are TOTALLY marginally relevant to me. I mean that from the heart.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2005 7:27:11 am PDT #847 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You're the sweetest, Robin.
-t - Aug 24, 2005 7:27:15 am PDT #848 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Somehow, the question of the relevance if mist of the universe to us (or the other way around) has reminded me of something one of the actors on 6FU said about how the show is now out there, lightyears away. Is that true if it was only ever on cable?
erikaj - Aug 24, 2005 7:29:43 am PDT #849 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't think so...or at least comedy writers haven't made it seem that way. And they know everything.
tommyrot - Aug 24, 2005 7:38:48 am PDT #850 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is that true if it was only ever on cable?
But cable is still distributed by satelite, so the transmissions to the satelite(s) are still out in space, waiting to confuse aliens.
Nutty - Aug 24, 2005 7:45:28 am PDT #851 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
It's just that the viewer doesn't know, back in S1, that the phlebotnum will be relevant 4 seasons later.
Joss, Tim, and all the television writers I have ever heard of (plus plenty I haven't) seem to indicate that gods may not actually be able to plan that far ahead, although some of them will claim they can.
Technically, that would mean that any and all miracles are retcons, but, because we live in the present, we won't know they're retcons until many years later.
something one of the actors on 6FU said about how the show is now out there, lightyears away.
One of the cooler/sadder Farscape moments, back in the beginning of S3 when it was still "I am soooooo lost in the galaxy, and would really like to go home now," was an episode where Crichton was looking into a broadcast receiver like a TV/radio/phone doohickey, and saw the Three Stooges. It surprised him so much he did a backwards somersault, and then he sat down and did the math and realized that he was "only" 60ish light years away from home, at most.
-t - Aug 24, 2005 7:45:54 am PDT #852 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, tommyrot! That's a load off my mind. I was really worried that the aliens weren't getting our quality cable-only entertainment.