I did not read the interview, so thank you for that, ita.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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le nubian - Jul 11, 2011 4:45:12 pm PDT #3896 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2011 5:05:06 pm PDT #3897 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You might want to post it in Literary too, now that I think about it.
Rayne - Jul 11, 2011 7:12:45 pm PDT #3898 of 7329
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
did anyone else notice that Sookie was reading a book by Charlaine Harris when she was waiting for Eric? I was kind of amused by that.
In season 1, Grams is reading a Charlaine Harris book at the kitchen table. I only noticed it on my latest rewatch.
Trudy Booth - Jul 12, 2011 7:56:36 am PDT #3899 of 7329
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Will cause humans to be wiped out within 4 months due to the whole famine things, and then they'll be able to easily turn Earth into a...day care? Sea farm? Alien spa?
But unless the miracle is reversed no one will die in the famine. We'll just get skinny and skinnier. With any luck we'll lose our ability to reproduce at some point in the skinnying... We're looking at masses of starving people who just walk around starving. Presumably we get weak and end up unable to care for ourselves and end up in an unending torment of pain and filth. Maybe one of the kids being huffed by aliens for all eternity broke out and came up with it as revenge.
The only thing that took me out of the show when I watched it was Pullman's situation. I don't give a shit what the arguments were, they are not going to let out a pedophile murderer from prison.
Yeah, no kidding. His lawyer can argue all kinds of shit, but unless his lawer is a member of this Sooper CIA where anything they want they can have it won't mean spit.
Well, that's another issue -- he needs a crutch and a wheelchair to leave the hospital, but he's able to fly across the Atlantic and drive a couple of hours through the English countryside. Again, kind of forgivable in the interests of getting the plot going, but when the Oswald Danes story line already has my disbelief poorly suspended, not good.
I'm going with "adrenaline" on that one.
Like debet I suspect he'll die. Our last ep is they win, the "miracle" is reversed and Jack watches the man die as he resumes his immortality.
I've always wondered, what do you call a bad miracle?
beekaytee - Jul 12, 2011 7:59:41 am PDT #3900 of 7329
Compassionately intolerant
Abomination.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 12, 2011 8:23:39 am PDT #3901 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The famine in 4 months thing doesn't make any sense - the worldwide death rate is something like 8.4 per thousand annually, so stopping that wouldn't result in a huge immediate boom, it would take years and years to make a significant change to population vs. food production capability. And the people who miraculously don't die probably aren't in any shape to be giving birth to kids in the near future, so the birth rate isn't going to accelerate.
Now, things would get worse and worse as hospitals fill up with not-dead invalids and as a result health care resources for the non-terminal population erode, but the situation isn't going to snowball as quickly as a Tribble population explosion.
Fred Pete - Jul 12, 2011 9:00:55 am PDT #3902 of 7329
Ann, that's a ferret.
so the birth rate isn't going to accelerate
Any already-existing pregnancies will (I assume) be carried to birth, so the birth rate certainly isn't likely to decelerate for at least 9 months or so. There may be some acceleration in the birth rate if the miracle affects those not yet born -- no miscarriages, no stillbirths, no abortion. Deceleration might begin in a year or so, but people aren't necessarily going to be sensible enough to take steps to avoid pregancny. (Why does the Population Explosion never end? Because it's so much fun to set the fuse....)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 12, 2011 10:37:45 am PDT #3903 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, that brings up the horrible thought that miscarriages wouldn't stop happening, they just wouldn't be fatal to the fetuses anymore ...
le nubian - Jul 12, 2011 10:40:31 am PDT #3904 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yep. we will see how this is all handled.
Liese S. - Jul 12, 2011 7:37:08 pm PDT #3905 of 7329
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Okay, I realize I am bringing the bleak tonight, and it's all probably pretty much hangover from missing Ianto. But I am really going to hate this premise the further it goes, aren't I? I mean, I'm a death is your gift believer anyway. I know that death is a welcome relief from pain sometimes. I also know that pain is an important part of life sometimes. I think it could maybe be a fascinating topic, but if you start off by snipping the tendons off the mangled burnt remains of a person and then laugh at causing more of that infinite, irreconcilable pain, well, I might not think you're exploring that in a way I want to explore.
Also, I think that Jack being mortal, the first thing he'd want to do is commit suicide right away, so he didn't miss his chance. If he doesn't, I don't want to hear his bitching about his longevity ever again.
I mean, I think it could be an interesting story. Or, it could be that the entire universe just got reverse fridged to enhance Jack's unique manpain.