The last IO9 recap I read said something to the effect of "we're not saying it like it's a bad thing when he shoulders past her, it's just that his shoulders are what go past her head."
Fair.
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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§ ita § - Oct 14, 2013 5:12:10 pm PDT #23378 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Oct 14, 2013 5:16:02 pm PDT #23379 of 30001
Because books.
Ah. Thanks.
Jessica - Oct 14, 2013 5:21:12 pm PDT #23380 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Pre X-Files, they were just called apple boxes (because they actually are...apple boxes).
There's a point at which one needs to let an alternate universe be alternate, or you'll strangle it.
I think the real world details bug more because some are just obviously mistakes instead of decisions. I'm actually fine with an AU version of Roanoke that was magically relocated to the Hudson valley by Pestilence. But it bothers me that Ichabod seems to take modern medicine in stride when he predates germ theory by almost a century.
Amy - Oct 14, 2013 5:23:10 pm PDT #23381 of 30001
Because books.
And he's also clearly an ancestor of Sherlock Holmes!
The whole thing is so ridiculous, it's awesome. And when he gets snarky, I could care less how absurd it gets, because he is just that adorable.
Jessica - Oct 14, 2013 5:27:02 pm PDT #23382 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And when he gets snarky, I could care less how absurd it gets, because he is just that adorable.
This is an entirely worthwhile point.
Trudy Booth - Oct 14, 2013 5:27:13 pm PDT #23383 of 30001
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
Thinking that "miasmas" bring illness has never struck me as all that different from germ theory. Some thing you couldn't see was getting into your body and making you sick. I've always been impressed with how close they were to the truth with that one.
Ginger - Oct 14, 2013 5:33:52 pm PDT #23384 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One big problem with the miasma theory is that it assumed disease came from the environment, as opposed to being passed from person to person.
Amy - Oct 14, 2013 5:39:40 pm PDT #23385 of 30001
Because books.
Oh god, I meant to say couldn't care less up there. I hate goofs like that.
Trudy Booth - Oct 14, 2013 5:39:41 pm PDT #23386 of 30001
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
Yeah, they also thought if you breathed in nice things the nasty things couldn't get you. The wrong parts were quite wrong like wrong things. But the right parts have always impressed me. Unlike, say, leeches. I don't think there were any right parts to the leeches.
Connie Neil - Oct 14, 2013 6:14:24 pm PDT #23387 of 30001
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I was not expecting Morales to have Oxford confirm they had a professor called Ichabod Crane who was on loan to police. Who was that on the phone! What a lovely twist.
And the next episode has the Horseman in the week of Halloween.