I thought they received that first call at different times.
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
if everyone received that first call at the same time
They didn't. The intercutting was dramatic license.
Well, it's implied they received it at the same time in terms of visual representation, however it's possible that it wasn't the same time.
One thing that bugs me is the racers aren't supposed to know who each other are, but they were all (bar one) in the same room together at the beginning, and all meet up at the check points.
Didn't the subtitles say how many days ago each scene was? And they were all different.
Here's Strega:
A caption reads "One week ago," as we hear someone ask Alex, "When was the last time you spoke to your wife?"
Godcam zooms away from Nebraska and whooshes over to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where Wendy Patrakas is in labor. Caption: "Five days ago."
God is bored, and moves across time and space to three days ago in Brookbridge, Maryland. Winston Salazar is getting an early parole due to his charisma.
Strega is funny. IJS
There's a clip of two of the cast of Drive on TV this morning: [link]
It contains a big spoiler. So don't watch it unless you want to be spoilered quite badly. At the end, it goes on about Nathan's Myspace Firefly thing I mentioned the other day, and kinda explains why he changed it back. Heh.
The spoiler is for tonight's ep only. So if you want to watch it after you see tonight's ep, there isn't a problem.
thanks for taking the spoiler bullet!
By the way, if anybody is wondering, Nathan's Myspace says: "Please, don't ask if there's going to be more Firefly. If you are a reporter researching for an interview, keep moving. Don't advertise this site. It's a secret gem, to be discovered like a pearl. This is not a source for legitimate press." The linked video explains what happened. For simplification (and for those who don't want to be spoiled in advance), it's just some reporter who uses Nathan's Myspace live on air as his 'research', which leads Nathan to be all 'WTF?*'. And quite rightly so.
- He doesn't say anything, but it's all over his face.