Sunday, May 19, 2019

523 - Some Thoughts On Pathetic Invasions From Space and Time

[11:28 AM] 
Oh yeah...way back..."Stargate" 
The nuke
Ra not stating it but realizing that Earth tech had advanced WAY farther than he could conquer, Ra declared he's sending the bomb back through the gate in a box of his special metal.
"Which will result in an explosion 1000 TIMES more powerful and destroy you all!" 
On review, my response might have been:
"Pfft...ok."
"What? Did you think all of civilization was still grubbing around on the Nile or something? That little thing is a tactical atomic bomb.  x1000, it's still not that big, and you'd be setting it off under a fortified mountain.  Humanity would call it an accident and forget it."
"...though if I know our government – and I do – they've already reverse engineered most or all of your gate technology, and they're going to be mighty PO'd."
That last bit is not spurious character bluffing, BTW.
Earth science got the thing to work, had systems to track where probes had gone, so they probably also figured out how it does it.
That was another thing about the experience of watching it again – sitting back and realizing that Earth science got an alien device properly powered, turned it on, and built an interface that actually worked.
They had everything but 1 coordinate and they would have guessed it eventually.
[12:00 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Maybe his bomb improvements would've destroyed technology like an EMP bomb
[12:03 PM] 
He didn't change the bomb...he just packed it in unrefined nuclear...ore?
It went from a tiny A bomb to a larger A bomb
Heh
[12:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah
It'd actually be an interesting story from Ra's perspective
[12:56 PM] 
What? The immortal alien running into his biggest mistake?
That does sound interesting, yes.
What if it was about the cargo cult passing up the alien?
(something I've pondered with us and UFOs)
Show up as a god and pray you can pull off the superior act.
Very much like "The Man Who Would Be King", I guess
"Back off, primitives, or I'll fire my... (looks around...picks up juice box) ...space... box."
[1:31 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Even a Glock with plenty of ammo would be enough to subjugate most people prior to say 1600
[1:33 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
That is for sure



[1:27 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
[1:35 PM] 
AKA "The story of the pizza delivery guy but with more events, interesting characters, and not such a sad abrupt ending."
Sorry...not such an abruptio ending. ;-)
[1:36 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Pizza guy travels back in time, has a pizza becomes a god
lol
That would be funny
Somebody delivering a pizza going back in time
All he has is the pizza
Gets natives to eat it
Calls it the food of the gods
[1:40 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Then they'd eat him
We've discussed this but i think if any of us went back in time it'd be very hard for us to survive
At worst they think you're some kind of witch and hang you
At best you're merely a foreigner and many would still try to kill you depending on time/place
Anything prior to about 1800 and we wouldn't even speak the language right.  Anywhere.
We would have an odd accent no matter where we went.
We'd get by in English speaking countries but it'd be like we were speaking a 2nd language poorly.
Our general cleanliness and health would probably make us stick out like aristocrats or nobility...which would leave us vulnerable to mugging or kidnapping
And our clothes?  Not even sure there.
We would be wearing colors that people would have never seen before on man-made items
[1:47 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
But if you have a gun you're set
lol
[1:48 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Probably
[1:49 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
But when you think you're gonna die, you need to get rid of that thing
Not let them get it and make them before their time
[1:50 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Just go back in time and give the glock to, like, the Mayans or something
and then come back and see what's changed.
Even just give them the recipe for gunpowder
[1:53 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Watch how we worry about all this time stuff, and then time travel gets invented and it all works just like on Bill and Ted
You can go back in time take people from anywhere, flip them around - nothing changes
lol
[1:54 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol yeah
There's no tangents at all, just do whatever you want
[1:54 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
"Man, gotta pass my history report. Better go bring Hitler back"
Nothing changes
First hand accounts on why he did it
Goes back with knowledge of how to win
Still loses
Nothing changes
What if when you are pulled out of your time you may gain new memories and such but once you're back to your time it goes away?
Travel through time, discover all kinds of stuff
Come back and forget you even traveled in time
Best part about Bill and Ted is them permanently removing two princesses from time
Planting them in their time
[2:13 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Yeah that would be bad.
Everything they did would have changed history drastically
[3:03 PM] 
(catches up)
Rufus grabbed the princesses because he knew they were in the band in the future.
"Bill and Ted's Appalling Misadventure"
[3:07 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
"Bill & Ted Flush History Down the Toilet"
[3:09 PM] 
(presenting on stage, Adolf posing in front of map) "My man Hilter totally would have lasted longer and might have held all of Europe for like, forever, if he hadn't betrayed and attacked the Russia dudes on June 22 1941."
"Was?"
(Churchill mumbling into mike) "What a Kraut ass...does he really?  Ho ho!"
[3:09 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
What should've happened is they go back for Socrates... and then everyone else doesn't exist.
No Genghis Khan or Napoleon or Billy the Kid, because they F'd with Socrates and it caused a tangent
[3:20 PM] 
"Bill and Ted's Bitchin' Butterfly Effect Botch"
[3:23 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
That's good



[3:33 PM] 
They ever do a snow post-apocalypse movie?  Like Mad Max but in, like, The Yukon instead of the Australian desert?
"It's time for another edition of Thunder Rink, eh?" 
[3:35 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Not sure assless chaps would work in that film
[3:35 PM] 
(crowd chants) "31 teams enter...1 team leaves...31 teams enter...1 team leaves..."
[‎3:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
hehehe



[10:19 AM] 
Do bad guys assure each other with "Dishonest to badness"?
[10:20 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heh
[10:21 AM] 
"So easy I'll lie to the Devil about it being hard."
[10:22 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
Most homes have a dead zone” (Ted discussing wifi)
[10:23 AM] 
"It's in that room that never seems to get warm and you won't go in without reaching around the corner to turn on the lights first."
[10:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 
heheh
"Wow the old McNare place... Never thought they'd get it all cleaned up after what happened here." 
"What happened?" 
"...they had a lot of cats."
[10:27 AM] 
:)



[12:46 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
So ALF is on Prime
watching it again has ruined it for me
lol
[12:48 PM] 
Watched several episodes, I think.
That bad, eh?
[12:48 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
i don't remember if i liked the show or not
i think i liked the idea of ALF more than the show itself
[12:49 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
so the first episode is the dad and mother in the garage
where he has radios and signal tracking equipment setup
suddenly we are thrust into him picking up a signal no explaination to why he is in there at all
he talks to the signal it talks back he cannot understand it
then everything starts shaking
lights flashing
kids run in - “what's going on”
ALF then crashes into the garage not killing any of them just getting stuck in the roof
they carry him into the house
WTF
he wakes up and immediately starts talking English and making recent pop culture quips
[12:53 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
lol
[12:53 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
Then the family has a very small discussion and just lets him stay there
[12:53 PM] 
(80s show pitch) "Dad goes into the garage, finds a baggie of shrooms.  Thinks they are his favorite mushroom from the Chinese restaurant and eats the whole bag."
(producer) "That's the show?"
"Yeah."
(producer) "Maybe add a puppet."
"Yeah."
I think one can worry too much about backstory in old sitcoms. 
heh
[1:13 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
Sounds like everyone that worked on it hated it
[1:18 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
yep
[1:23 PM] 
Nasty anecdotes
[1:24 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Tina Fey said that her biggest frustration as producer of NBC's 75th anniversary special was dealing with ALF's "people". Fey said Fusco would only allow ALF to appear on the show if the puppeteers were hidden from everyone else. After ALF's cameo alongside former Family Ties star Michael Gross, ALF disappeared through a hole in the riser, was stuffed into a case, and immediately removed from the building.
[1:25 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
haha
ALF the DIVA
I know there was a cartoon
comics
they did dumb stuff like his planet has blue grass and and green sky
[1:39 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
they really didn't put much thought into any of it
[1:39 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 
nope
[1:39 PM]  Mr. Blue: 
like it makes Mork & Mindy seem like 2001: A Space Odyssey

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