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Something just occurred to me re: Peter's dream: he didn't have the scar in the dream, did he? So either (a) his dream-self is a stand-in for Actual Radioactive Dude, or (b) it's really Peter, but he doesn't die, because he has to stick around long enough to acquire some distinctive scarring (though this might be the event that does it). Right?
I also don't know how literally we're meant to take Peter's dreams. He dreamed about Nathan and Heidi's accident, though we don't know if what we saw was his dream or the real thing (and thus, we don't know how closely his dream of the event mirrored reality); and he dreamed about having a conversation with Simone's dad, shortly before he passed away -- a conversation that never actually happened. Have we seen him have any other empathic/prophetic dreams?
(a) his dream-self is a stand-in for Actual Radioactive Dude
this was my first thought.
his dream-self is a stand-in for Actual Radioactive Dude
I don't know why Simone would run toward him with a desperate expression on her face if it were the Radioactive Man.
I've come to the conclusion that it *is* probably Peter. Someone on LJ speculated that Nathan was coming toward him with the grim expression, not because Nathan was evil or anything, but because he planned to grab his about-to-go-nuclear brother and fly out of the populated area. I have to say I like that idea.
Vonnie, yeah, I'm quite attached to that idea myself! *loves on the Petrelli brothers*
Fawlty Towers also had a pilot so bad that it's rumored that all involved committed suicide soon after.
Fawlty Towers was remade without the Basil Fawlty character. John Cleese got paid just looks stunned when he recounts the meeting where they announced that the American version would not have Basil.
Hmmm, According to "the internets" there were two American shows:
There were at least two attempts to reproduce this tv series for American audiences. In the first (Named "Snavely") only a pilot was produced and the program was not picked up. The second one ("Amanda's") only lasted for 6 episodes in 1983.
Maybe Hiro ends up fighting Lostzilla.
Hah! I said the same thing to a coworker today!
Daniel ... better make that
three
attempts. Three was a '99 attempt starring John Larroquette called
Payne.
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The second one ("Amanda's") only lasted for 6 episodes in 1983.
With Bea Arthur in for John Cleese. Ponder that one for a second.
I recall hearing that way back before the series changed considerably (i.e. during development), CHEERS was supposed to be an attempt at doing FAWLTY TOWERS. But I may be conflating the other failed attempts with Cleese's actual appearence(s?) on CHEERS.
With Bea Arthur in for John Cleese. Ponder that one for a second.
Actually that was the one where they wrote out Basil. Bea Arthur was supposed to be Polly.
Head still spins.
