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karenori'm pimpin dead like me. go download the first ep of season 2. ok? cuz my download is going uberslow. 46 hours left. and i hate leaving my computer on all night. and i did last night cuz i was downloading "The 4400".
and while i'm on that subject, did anyone see it? cuz i found it pretty interesting. Very reminiscent of "Taken". but i spotted a pretty major flub. and excuse me while i get all sexy technically nerd on ya'll. Ok. All the characters are the same age they were when they were abducted. One such woman, Lily, the returnee character abducted in 1993 who had, at the the time a six month old baby, and who appears to be at least 30 years old (and indeed the actress is 30, i checked), meets another returnee who knew her grandmother in 1951. And her grandmother was childless at the time. Now then. A woman, who was 30 in 1993 would have been born in 1963. Even if her grandmother had had a child in 1952, that child would have been 11 in 1963, which doesn't seem a likely scenario for her parenting a child of his/her own given the hmm, socioeconomic status of the character. I mean, don't these shows have people who CHECK these things??? When they bother to give dates and familial relations? They could have made the actress younger (granted they didn't give her age, but she was married to a lawyer, and the youngest she could pass for is 27, i'd say), they could have made her abducted later. they could have made the returnee who knew her grandmother's abduction date earlier. i mean, you could stretch it, say she was 25, so her mother/father could have POSSIBLY been 16. but the actress doesn't even look that young.
i know, its silly and minor. but stuff like this bugs the begeesus out of me. this isn't a question of ignorance about history (*coughKingArthurcough*), or something like that. its a MATH flaw, for crying out loud. oy.
and while i'm on that subject, did anyone see it? cuz i found it pretty interesting. Very reminiscent of "Taken". but i spotted a pretty major flub. and excuse me while i get all sexy technically nerd on ya'll. Ok. All the characters are the same age they were when they were abducted. One such woman, Lily, the returnee character abducted in 1993 who had, at the the time a six month old baby, and who appears to be at least 30 years old (and indeed the actress is 30, i checked), meets another returnee who knew her grandmother in 1951. And her grandmother was childless at the time. Now then. A woman, who was 30 in 1993 would have been born in 1963. Even if her grandmother had had a child in 1952, that child would have been 11 in 1963, which doesn't seem a likely scenario for her parenting a child of his/her own given the hmm, socioeconomic status of the character. I mean, don't these shows have people who CHECK these things??? When they bother to give dates and familial relations? They could have made the actress younger (granted they didn't give her age, but she was married to a lawyer, and the youngest she could pass for is 27, i'd say), they could have made her abducted later. they could have made the returnee who knew her grandmother's abduction date earlier. i mean, you could stretch it, say she was 25, so her mother/father could have POSSIBLY been 16. but the actress doesn't even look that young.
i know, its silly and minor. but stuff like this bugs the begeesus out of me. this isn't a question of ignorance about history (*coughKingArthurcough*), or something like that. its a MATH flaw, for crying out loud. oy.
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Date: 2004-07-14 06:47 am (UTC)I've never heard of The 4400.
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Date: 2004-07-14 09:58 am (UTC)I'm at 63%....that makes me happy.
oh, The 4400. Its a new series on USA. I think maybe its an extended miniseries or something, I'm not sure. The premise is, 4400 people disappear over the course of the last 60 years and then reappear, together, in a ball of light, near Mt. Ranier. The haven't aged, nor changed their clothes or anything, and have no memory of what happened to them whatsoever. But they do appear to each have a different sort of power or problem. It focuses on a few of the 4400, the investigative team, (the male of which had his nephew abducted, and his son left in a coma after seeing his cousin get abducted) and several of the returnees.
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Date: 2004-07-14 10:36 am (UTC)Hmm, that 4400 sounds interesting. Would you recommend it? Not that I'll probably manage to catch it. I never saw Taken either.
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Date: 2004-07-14 11:59 am (UTC)dlm is at 85%. even tho its slow, it only has two hours left. let me know if you want a copy, k?
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Date: 2004-07-15 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-14 01:24 pm (UTC)thank goodness DLM downloaded in less than four hours yesterday. I'm still procrastinating on watching it, though. haha.
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Date: 2004-07-14 02:14 pm (UTC)