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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?
Doug S. Machina:
--- Quote from: Econoline on 17 Mar 2008, 10:13 ---Another difference would be that either global warming has advanced to the point where it no longer ever snows or gets really cold in western Mass., or else technology has advanced to the point where control over the weather is possible (perhaps by means of a huge geodesic dome a la the one in The Truman Show?)
P.S. Re the "superhero comic" scenario: in addition, there's the Vespa Avenger with her phaser-equipped Vespabot, and possibly also the Tequila Monster.
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The Vespavenger was taken away by G-men. She's now creating transforming warbots for the Department of Defence. So, was the Tequila Monster a vivid hallucination or a strange creature born of the collective semi-conscious? If he's another superhero, maybe he protects fools and drunks with his steed, a pink pygmy elephant (or purple.)
As for a dome over the city, this could maintain a pleasant enviroment while also enforcing the city's stringent entry laws that forbid anyone too old or not pretty enough to enter. Jimbo is the exception, a master smuggler who knows the secret ways into the city and runs an underground economy of restricted goods. Alas, this entertaining rubbish idea has been holed below the waterline by the naked old ladies in #1000 and the Biachi parents.
JReynolds:
--- Quote from: Doug S. Machina on 17 Mar 2008, 15:55 ---
--- Quote from: Econoline on 17 Mar 2008, 10:13 ---...the city's stringent entry laws that forbid anyone too old or not pretty enough to enter. Jimbo is the exception ...
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Of course, it's possible that people who were living in Pleasantville when the dome went up were allowed to stay. Perhaps Raven went to Jimbo to help her smuggle Benji in when he came to visit.
waterloosunset:
is it not obvious? jeph has a tardis, and travelled 30 years into the future to see what life is life. QC is just a prophecy people, not a mere comic. look at the signs goddamit
Doug S. Machina:
Except they also enjoy culture at the same rate as contempory life, adding weight to the alternate world idea. Except, QC time moves much slower than real time, but bands burst onto the scene, become cool, pick up fans and are left behind by hipsters as too popular at the same rate. Which must mean you could be an underground sensation on Monday and have a new recording contract, badges in HMV [insert major American music chain store] and "The Real Fans" moaning that you've sold out and lost it by Friday. "I saw them when they were cool, man." "I was sick that day."
--- Quote from: JReynolds on 17 Mar 2008, 16:24 ---
--- Quote from: Doug S. Machina on 17 Mar 2008, 15:55 ---
--- Quote from: Econoline on 17 Mar 2008, 10:13 ---...the city's stringent entry laws that forbid anyone too old or not pretty enough to enter. Jimbo is the exception ...
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Of course, it's possible that people who were living in Pleasantville when the dome went up were allowed to stay. Perhaps Raven went to Jimbo to help her smuggle Benji in when he came to visit.
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Possibly, but if you want a city of the young and beautiful, are you really going to dilute the vision like that? I thought they'd be chased out of town. And every night patrols sweep the streets for over-30's. You can only stay so long. Dora has a few years left before being cast out.
Bigbywolfe:
I actually think I like the space program/robotics connection theory. It has merit.
A point about something else different in the QC universe: The only law enforcement I remember seeing so far were drunk and high (the cops after the Vespavenger incident) and an FBI agent so pathetic that he was scared of a girl he new from high school. Is this just coincidence or is the whole universe like this? (Perhaps Jeph’s personal feeling toward law enforcement?) If all the law enforcement in the QC universe are that pathetic does that tie into any of the other theories about why it is so different from our own?
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