Carter took more of the blow by barreling past them?
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Jon B. - Sep 10, 2010 5:37:29 pm PDT #14186 of 30001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2010 5:38:28 pm PDT #14187 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got it, except for then their clothes changed and I got confused again.
Carter had to disrupt whatever Beverly was doing, because that was what caused Allison to die. So he left himself the message to do it. Why Grant and him reverted to their old clothes...not sure. Why exactly her stuff had killed Allison in the first place?
Okay, I guess I didn't get the details.
Morgana - Sep 10, 2010 5:38:51 pm PDT #14188 of 30001
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
Matt, is "Bad Blood" the vampire episode with the Wilson brother playing the sheriff in the town that turns to be populated by vampires? And we see the episode in he-said/she-said POVs? Because I love that episode, I just suck at remembering X-Files titles.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2010 5:45:01 pm PDT #14189 of 30001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Why Grant and him reverted to their old clothes...not sure.
I believe the intention was that at that moment, Carter & Grant went back in time and then the Carter & Grant that had gone back in time took their place. You need to handwave lots of timey-wimey paradoxes, but that's the gist of it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 10, 2010 5:45:10 pm PDT #14190 of 30001
"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
Panicky in-the-know Carter honking his horn caused Allison and Henry to act differently when they got in the SUV to run, and Allison fastened her seatbelt.
edit: that's the one, Morgana.
quester - Sep 10, 2010 5:46:55 pm PDT #14191 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Darmok
This is by far my favorite STNG.
I liked the X-Files that had good interaction between Mulder and Scully, like the one with the invisible swamp creatures and the one with the not!Loch ness monster.
-t - Sep 10, 2010 5:49:10 pm PDT #14192 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Carter had to disrupt whatever Beverly was doing, because that was what caused Allison to die. So he left himself the message to do it.
That's what I thought, but the car still flipped . Time-traveling Grant and Jack returning to the present I could put down to either Grant's plan in the past succeeding or general timey-wimey weirdness.
Eta: OK, the seatbelt thing fits the camerawork. I'm still a little hazy on what happened either time.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2010 5:52:25 pm PDT #14193 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Panicky in-the-know Carter honking his horn caused Allison and Henry to act differently when they got in the SUV to run, and Allison fastened her seatbelt.
Okay, that's one hell of a gamble. How could he possibly know she'd fasten her seatbelt? I mean, it makes sense that it would save her, but not necessarily that she'd do that.
My god, I thought I understood it, and now I'm completely adrift.
-t - Sep 10, 2010 5:57:07 pm PDT #14194 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It doesn't seem like much of a plan. But they didn't have much time to put a plan together, maybe that gamble was the best they could do - try to stop the explosion (or whatever it was) in such a way to hopefully get Allison farther from the blast if it happened?
le nubian - Sep 10, 2010 5:57:13 pm PDT #14195 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
X-Files:
Some of my favorite episodes, not a comprehensive list ("Home" would NOT be on the list) include...
"Tooms" - that put me through changes. I think it is also notable for the kind of tone the series had and would continue through its 8 season: edgy, gross, intense.
"Pusher" - though I bet the ep isn't as good as I remember it being.
And one of my favorite of the series is "Redrum", but that's not a Mulder/Scully episode, so I suppose that might be sacrilege.