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Grrl Power #1009 - Does Sydney have accident insurance?
🕑 Added 2021-12-27 11:01:01 +0000 UTCThanks so much for your support! Like, seriously, you guys.
The title of the page is a joke, but... seriously. Wouldn't supers probably need to have some sort of insurance fund set up in case they accidentally elbowed someone through a wall, or turned them to stone, or extincted an epoch/era?
As it sometimes happens, speculation from the prior page's comments could be selectively snipped and used to write this one. The proximity to the Chicxulub crater didn't escape some of you, and that's half of this page. I'm not saying that event and the orbs are necessarily related, but it might be a Chekhov's Extinction Level Event.
If it happens that Sydney was involved in wiping out the dinosaurs, could it be considered retroactive species-level self-defence, given that human civilization probably wouldn't have gotten very far if we tried to evolve alongside dinosaurs, or that any common ancestors we might have could have been eaten by a disagreeable theropod?
I like the Chekhov's Gun trope. I don't necessarily agree with it, because it can make plays/movies/stories incredibly predictable, but I like the idea of it, because I can say "Oh, look, Chekhov's restaurant." if I'm planning on eating somewhere later. Seriously though, the idea that every scene or thing that the camera focuses on early in a movie needs to be there in order to pay off later is obnoxious, because if you're paying attention it's almost like watching a movie with pop-ups saying "The Main Character is giving the love interest a silver amulet. I wonder if that will come up later in this Were-Vampire movie? What do you think, audience?" Of course, if you have no setup, then stuff happening at the end can feel deus ex machiny, so I guess the balance is to set up too much stuff so the signal gets hidden in the noise? I don't know. "The Main Character is giving the love interest a silver amulet, and a ring with a cross on it, and a broach made of mysterious metal that came from a meteorite, a lucky charm for her keyring, a flask to keep in her inside jacket pocket, and is taking her to the gun range and teaching her offensive driving, Latin, and how to fly a helicopter. What do you think is going to happen now, smart guy?"
I will say that Archon needs to be a lot better about closing doors and drawing blinds when discussing classified things.
Unrelated, I saw Matrix: Resurrection, and no spoilers, but I'm shocked that it has a 64% on Rotten Tomatoes. I kind of figured the 4th time the movie self-awarely brought up the idea of an unnecessary sequel to a trilogy then said in the movie "Warner Brothers is making us do this." I assumed it was an apology. I don't think they tried to make a bad, unnecessary movie that added nothing to the lore (in fact it detracted from the lore, IMO), I just don't think there was a way to extend that storyline any further.
If the movie had been about the remnants of humanity living in a Matrix-esque world while they traveled to another planet, having abandoned Earth to the machines, that could have extended the universe. Or if it had been about a post-trilogy ground war to take back the Earth like the future bits of the Terminator movies, then that could have been something, but neither of those stories require Keanu, and that's just not how Hollywood works.
Tamer: Enhancer 2 – Progress Update: Getting Proofed!
Still getting proofed. Didn't make much progress over Xmas break, but I didn't think the book would be out before the new year anyway. Definitely January though.
Comments
Eric Loken
Nah, the crater was caused by a spaceship crashing into the Earth at high speed. The Cybernen wanted it to crash later in history, but the Doctor managed to get it to go plummeting through time and become a part of Earth's history. Looks like the Orbs were just cargo on the ship that no one knew about, and being nigh indestructible survived the impact. (reference to an old Peter Davison Doctor Who storyline)
Souliris
I'm thinking that the orbs release a lot of energy when their link to the user is cut. that would explain the crater. The original users of the orbs either died or someone was cut from the orbs, and caused the crater/mass extinction.
Tristan N Milner
If their customs agents failed to notice an object of power, then they've forfeited any and all rights to it.
BJ
So, now it's his turn to meet the parents.
Foradain
...and distract myself with an archive binge. Back on track now... Yep, CapnTytePantz remembered correctly if inexactly. We see the geode and its "geode water", on p.414 and on p. 416 Deus claims there were some probably extraterrestrial microbes found trapped in between layers.
Foradain
Called Chicxulub. ^_^ For what it's worth; as noted the Scorpion Reef is bit away from ground zero. But I'm thinking any involvement Sydney may have or may have had would be either as an observer or trying to not find out what a causality paradox looks like from the inside. Now to check on CapnTytePantz theory...
D.A. Lamont
Hang the f*ck on! Didn't Max get her powers from a meteorite or asteroid fragment or something?! Is this gonna be some big reveal about how Max's body and Sydney's orbs are two parts of a whole Green Lantern ring?! 😱 I mean, what you say with all the things I just said but didn't. 😏 Don't revoke me clearance. 🥴
BJ
What killed the dinosaurs? Sydney Scoville Jr.
martin leske
"not yet" is always a nice to hear answer from a time traveler
Czarzhan
I had a dream last night about "Captain Halo" coming back in time to deliver an important warning to the team. She was from several years down the line, having made captain an all. :)
Greg Morrow
If Sydney is responsible for Chicxulub, then that's the end of her story -- she leaves the orbs there for her to find later. (Also enormous predestination paradoxes, e.g. she can warp to Fracture Station because the coordinates are in the orbs because she warped to Fracture Station because the coordinates are in the orbs....) Much easier to assume linear time, and that Chicxulub is how the orbs got to Earth.
Diego Rossi
Or one of the advanced functions of the orbs includes time travel .... Now we can have nightmares about what Sidney can do with that. ;-)
Swedish Chef
Leon, just lost is nerd credit, it's not k-t anymore, it's K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene). Seen Matrix: Resurrection too, and the 64% rating on Tomato looks like a typo to me, 46% is good enough
Martin Drkoš
If the orbs were there since the dinosaur extinction and the round space hub was the last visited location before Earth, does that mean that the space hub is that ancient?
Thisguy
To be honest, closed doors don’t do much when Harem is around…
Thisguy
Well, we know the Orbs are alien in origin. And they were found near the impact site of an “asteroid” which hit 66 million years ago. Not certain if the orbs arrived with the asteroid… I figure they’ve been there for a long while, but 66 million years may be pushing it, considering we know that the orbs visited Fracture Station before Earth. Don’t know if that was there 66 million years ago. More likely some alien was inspecting the crater much later on, and the orbs were left there then.
akrasia
Maybe not you, Syd, but the space wizard orbs just might...
A Patreon of the Ahts
Potential Babylon Bee headline I wrote a while back... Biden Confiscates Chekhov's Gun: Theater Season Canceled.
Jeremy
Someone brighter than me pointed out they had to film Empire Strikes Back to pay off Chekhov's/Luke's Saber in A New Hope.
