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Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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le nubian - Sep 26, 2011 5:40:38 pm PDT #18293 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica - Sep 26, 2011 5:59:21 pm PDT #18294 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm too busy nitpicking a "quarry" of "meteoric iron." How obliging of the meteorites to all fall into one place.
Maybe the quarry is on the site of a naturally occurring alternate timeline giant magnet that attracted all the iron meteorites.
I was thinking this when the Sixers were contradicting that it was an alternate timeline.
But if this is true, then I can't write off all the nonsensical stuff by shouting ALTERNATE TIMELINE! in my head. You can see the bind I'm in.
Theresa - Sep 26, 2011 6:07:11 pm PDT #18295 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Maybe the quarry is on the site of a naturally occurring alternate timeline giant magnet that attracted all the iron meteorites.
Maybe Desmond is in the hatch punching in the numbers.
But if this is true, then I can't write off all the nonsensical stuff by shouting ALTERNATE TIMELINE! in my head.
Sure you can. See, it's Sid and Marty Kroft's Land of the Lost and this is really Saturday Morning. It solves everything.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2011 3:45:48 am PDT #18296 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The teenage girl said that in exposition to her brother, sj. They can do whatever and it has no effect on the alternate future.
Wibbly wobby...
Toddson - Sep 27, 2011 4:17:39 am PDT #18297 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I was pleased that they thought to work around the big paradox (i.e., going back and changing everything). Obviously didn't occur to them that they'd be screwing up someone else's future.
And how convenient that the nice, gentle, plant-eating dinosaurs come close enough to get friendly with but the mean, vicious, predators only come out at night and only seem to have a taste for cute, underdressed teenagers.
sumi - Sep 27, 2011 4:18:28 am PDT #18298 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I hope that they know to avoid any red, green, black or other Crayola colored meteor rock.
Jessica - Sep 27, 2011 4:19:24 am PDT #18299 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And how convenient that the nice, gentle, plant-eating dinosaurs come close enough to get friendly with but the mean, vicious, predators only come out at night and only seem to have a taste for cute, underdressed teenagers.
To be fair, the slashers mainly went after the fully clothed boys.
Toddson - Sep 27, 2011 4:23:30 am PDT #18300 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It's pretty and the dinosaurs are good. But it is kind of like Lost ... with no hope of rescue.
Typo Boy - Sep 27, 2011 5:39:22 am PDT #18301 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I was pleased that they thought to work around the big paradox (i.e., going back and changing everything). Obviously didn't occur to them that they'd be screwing up someone else's future.
Did they move backwards in the alternate timeline, or just sideways to a timeline that is a point now, we were then? Because if the latter, they are just changing an unknown future the way we all do through living day by day.
Jessica - Sep 27, 2011 5:46:46 am PDT #18302 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm curious to see if they'll continue handwaving the directionality of the fracture, or if we'll actually get an explanation of what the rules are. Because on the one hand we were clearly told It's A One Way Trip, You Can't Come Back, but on the other hand messages are clearly being exchanged between Terra Nova and the present/future ("I don't know who in the future I can trust" etc), so what gives?
(I'm willing to accept that you can send information back but not people, if that's how it works, but I don't like it just left hanging. MOAR INFODUMP PLEASE.)