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Post by dph on Feb 2, 2012 15:07:24 GMT -5
"Overdrawn at the Memory Bank." GO. The key to understanding Overdrawn is Flavo-Fibes. Once you unlock that mystery, the whole thing falls together. Flavo-Fibes. And Tooby. Almost made me laugh out loud in a quiet classroom. Thanks. lol
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Post by gareny on Feb 2, 2012 20:14:30 GMT -5
The issue that I've had with "Time Chasers" from the beginning is the way the transport works. Supposedly, according to ChinderWear candidate Nick, the molecular accelerator charges the skin of the plane and blah blah blah. But why an airplane? That's never explained. Why not a refrigerator or a bathroom stall .. or a DeLorean?
I mean, at least Doc Brown had some science-speak reason behind his invention and the need to go a certain speed.
Furthermore, what if he goes into a future where a meteor has hit the earth and the sky is full of so much dust that his plane crashes? For that matter, when they go to 2041, how did he land? Seems like arriving unannounced at an Airport (Of the Future!), especially with a 50 year old n-number, might be cause for some suspicion.
And as others have previously pointed out - why the hell do you need an R & D grant? It's a time machine for crying out loud! It's a veritable ATM machine. Get last weeks lotto numbers and you're all set, Parker-House-Roll-Chin Boy!
Gare
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Post by ilmatto on Feb 2, 2012 23:44:16 GMT -5
The idea of putting a time machine in an airplane goes back (at least) to the 1931 short story "The World of the Red Sun".
The whole idea was that if you had a land based time machine, mountains would form on top of you, canyons would form under you, buildings would be erected on top of you, etc.
But if you were aloft flying around, you would not be affected by these processes. I guess they weren't worried about mid-air collisions. Anyway that was the way it was postulated then.
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Post by ratherdashing on Feb 3, 2012 7:58:35 GMT -5
Well, if you time traveled, the world itself would be in a completely different location. You need to put the time machine on some sort of spacecraft.
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Post by Commander Kalgan on Feb 3, 2012 11:53:39 GMT -5
Oh!! Yes!! I was also thinking of Touch of Satan. How are all these Stricklands related? How does the curse affect them? Why does Lucille age but Melissa doesn't? Were they both witches before Lucille was burned? And why does having sex with Jodie (ew!) break Melissa free of the curse? I do like one of the Brains' explanation for the family situation: "they're a family that owns a witch." Otherwise, I can't figure it out. I believe, however, that Melissa claimed that if Jodie believed her when she said she was cursed, that the power of his love would save her, or something like that. She certainly claimed that his belief in her cursed status would be her salvation. How that works, however, was never explicitly stated. She also didn't realize that breaking the curse would age her instantly. Yeah, like most things in these movies, it didn't fit perfectly. So wait...Jody's belief in her being a witch would lead to her being free of the curse? What about all those people in town who thought she was a witch? You know, the ones who were "Zah"ed? Why would Satan honor a loophole that would free her from the curse, being, you know..evil and everything? Maybe Luther and Molly are just the people who run the walnut ranch, and part of the conditions of the deed state that the witch sisters continue to live there? Which brings up the question of why would they agree to such terms- maybe this was a particularly good walnut location? And why does the movie imply that the devil is real and powerful, but the people who are Christians are superstitious boobs? After all, there really was a witch in the house when they came to burn her! And a witch who had put curses on them that caused illnesses and death to their crops and livestock to boot! I can't imagine why they were angry...
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Post by zombiewhacker on Feb 3, 2012 15:24:31 GMT -5
I love your avatar btw zombiewhacker, best of the DBs and that was a good part prior to his tourny. Thanks! ;D
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Post by TheNewMads on Feb 3, 2012 18:39:33 GMT -5
Well, if you time traveled, the world itself would be in a completely different location. ok, this @#%* just got DEEP.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Feb 6, 2012 10:56:34 GMT -5
RE: time chasers. I thought it was a plane because he happened to own one. He didn't own a car. He did have a fridge, but I think it was a rental, so... one uses what's on hand.
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Post by ilmatto on Feb 7, 2012 18:49:51 GMT -5
RE: time chasers. I thought it was a plane because he happened to own one. He didn't own a car. He did have a fridge, but I think it was a rental, so... one uses what's on hand. I do like the idea of the refrigerator/time machine combo. That's more my speed. It would help me to get at that milk before it expires. Drawbacks: the inevitable and tragic William Conrad paradox.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Apr 20, 2012 11:37:04 GMT -5
. Just watching The Brute Man and I realized it makes no sense to me at all that he killed Joan Beemis. The professor kept him after school for the exploding chemical accident, so that makes sense. The married couple was the woman he wanted and the guy who gave him the wrong answers, so that makes sense. But poor Joan's just had a crush on Hal. She had nothing to do with the chemical thing, and did nothing bad to him. So...am I missing something? Why, Hal?
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Apr 20, 2012 12:57:00 GMT -5
Maybe because she was freinds with the married couple? I dunno. But jeez, Hal, way to break your crush's heart!
Now I've gotta go scrape pate off everything in the house, you pigs!
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Post by Torgo on Apr 20, 2012 13:17:24 GMT -5
That part always gets me a bit down, because she was technically an innocent. But I don't think Hal was thinking rationally. Perhaps in his mind, she was a reminder of the pain he went through. Maybe he even convinced himself she was in on it through some reasoning brought on by insanity. We can never truely know what was going on in his head, but what is certain is that he had no feeling for her whatsoever and felt no remorse in doing it.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Apr 21, 2012 11:06:49 GMT -5
RE: Touch of Satan. My understanding was that neither Lucinda nor Melissa were witches at the time the villagers came to the house with the torches, intent upon a-burnin'. I'm guessing the villagers just targeted the Stricklands because no one in their house had come down with the plague. If Lucinda had actually been a witch, she could have saved herself from the flames; Melissa only made a deal with the devil to save Lucinda. So I don't think either one of them was cursed to start with. YMMV, of course.
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Post by Blurryeye on Apr 24, 2012 12:46:23 GMT -5
That is my take on it as well. The villagers, in an ironic twist of fate, created a witch by trying to burn an innocent girl to death. Although the movie doesn't make it entirely clear, I'm pretty sure that is what happened. Lucinda is aged and decrepit, but Melissa still looks young. Though Lucinda is still nimble enough to plunge a pitchfork through a grown man's chest multiple times, so that kind of muddies the waters.
And then there's the whole walnut farm thing. Why walnuts? And perhaps most pressing of all: What is the significance of where the fish lives?
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Post by BJ on Apr 24, 2012 13:33:20 GMT -5
I might have to watch Touch of Satan tonight. I always thought it was about a sweet, red Grabber Maverick that drives through America's heartland, possibly solving mysteries. After that, my mind kind of goes blank and I can't figure out what's going on. As for the fish, I like to think of it as a Faulkner reference to As I Lay Dying, but that's just because I also hate William Faulkner.
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