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"Trivia corner"
 
   In Eyrie Productions Destroys the Marvel Universe, there's a scene in which Pete Rasputin and Kurt Wagner are not-really-watching TV. A number of readers picked up on the relatively obvious fact that what they're watching is an old Doctor Who rerun.

For the record, the episode they're watching is from the third-season 12-parter The Daleks' Master Plan. This is a double joke: one, they're watching Doctor Who; and two, they're watching an episode that they couldn't possibly have been watching, since The Daleks' Master Plan is mostly lost. Only episodes 2, 5, and 10 still exist, thanks to the BBC's rather careless housekeeping policies in the 1960s and '70s.

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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Trivia corner Moonsword Mar-28-06 1
     RE: Trivia corner Peter Eng Mar-28-06 2
         RE: Trivia corner StaticdashPulse Mar-31-06 7
             RE: Trivia corner Peter Eng Apr-03-06 9
  RE: Trivia corner ratinoxteam Mar-28-06 3
     RE: Trivia corner Star Ranger4 Mar-30-06 4
         RE: Trivia corner Wedgemoderator Mar-30-06 5
             RE: Trivia corner Croaker Apr-04-06 11
         RE: Trivia corner BZArcher Mar-31-06 6
             RE: Trivia corner trboturtle Apr-01-06 8
                 RE: Trivia corner Zox Apr-03-06 10
                     RE: Trivia corner McFortner Apr-04-06 12

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Moonsword
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 Mar-28-06, 05:15 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   *snickers briefly*

If I had to take a guess on what that means in-story, this is either dimensional variance at work or the fact that they knew several time travelers, at least a few of whom could have gone back, recorded the episode, and brought the tape forward in time.

Out of the story, however? Nice one.


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Peter Eng
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2. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >*snickers briefly*
>
>If I had to take a guess on what that means in-story, this is either
>dimensional variance at work or the fact that they knew several time
>travelers, at least a few of whom could have gone back, recorded the
>episode, and brought the tape forward in time.
>

No, it's a sign of the coming crisis. See, if the timestream hadn't been altered, the episode would have been lost. But since there was all this tinkering with time, one of the side effects was...

...okay, I'll stop now.

Peter Eng
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7. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   LAST EDITED ON Dec-21-11 AT 03:37 PM (EST)
 
Are you suggesting they were able to watch those episodes because Gryphon punched reality?


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Peter Eng
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9. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >Are you suggesting they were able to watch those episodes because
>Gryphon punched reality?
>

Absolutely not! Gryphon wasn't there.

Gryphon is a character in the UF universe. EPDTMU was set in the Marvel universe.

Honestly, this isn't all that complex...

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ratinoxteam
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3. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   A funny thing about FTL travel is that someone could race to a point Out There Somewhere and record the original transmissions. Something like SETI but in reverse.

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Star Ranger4
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4. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >A funny thing about FTL travel is that someone could race to a point
>Out There Somewhere and record the original transmissions. Something
>like SETI but in reverse.

Yes, but would the signal still be strong enough to be picked up?

Of COURSE you wernt expecting it!
No One expects the FANNISH INQUISITION!
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5. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >>A funny thing about FTL travel is that someone could race to a point
>>Out There Somewhere and record the original transmissions. Something
>>like SETI but in reverse.
>
>Yes, but would the signal still be strong enough to be picked up?

C'mon, man! It's the future, for crying out loud. :)

Chad Collier
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Croaker
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11. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >>>A funny thing about FTL travel is that someone could race to a point
>>>Out There Somewhere and record the original transmissions. Something
>>>like SETI but in reverse.
>>
>>Yes, but would the signal still be strong enough to be picked up?
>
>C'mon, man! It's the future, for crying out loud. :)
>

Heh. The BBC did a Sixth-Doctor novel based on this premise.

Title was Synthespians, and we get to meet a space-station full of idle rich who live in a society patterned after 20th century television...

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BZArcher
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6. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >>A funny thing about FTL travel is that someone could race to a point
>>Out There Somewhere and record the original transmissions. Something
>>like SETI but in reverse.
>
>Yes, but would the signal still be strong enough to be picked up?

I know at least 3 Doctor Who fans who, with access to a starship, would think it worth trying.

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8. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   There's been rumors floating around for years that there's lost DW episodes that have been hoarded by collectors, or stuck in a deep dark corner of a TV vault in a country that was once was part of the British Empire. Every couple of years, a story pops up about this missing episode or that missing episode.

90% of the time, there's no truth to the rumors, but every so often there's a real story -- Like the discovery of the intact story Tomb of the Cybermen in Hong Kong some years ago -- that keeps the fires of hope burning.

Of course, with a TARDIS and some recording equipment, it wouldn't take much to recored the episodes.... B-)

Craig


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10. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   Or maybe the episodes are missing in the first place because somebody with a time machine "borrowed" them. I mean, if you were a Time Lord, wouldn't you rescue the lost episodes? :)

Heck, it doesn't even cause a paradox. The episodes are missing in the future, and you're just making sure that they do go missing as they should.

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12. "RE: Trivia corner"
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   >Heck, it doesn't even cause a paradox. The episodes are missing in the
>future, and you're just making sure that they do go missing as
>they should.

Nope, that is the classic "Pre-destination Paradox". Just ask agents Dulmer and Lucsly.

Michael


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