I anticipate a minimum five to six hour “errand” today. I volunteered, sort of, and I am not complaining–just trying to organize my day well enough that I don’t wind up regretting it all tomorrow–or at least, so I don’t wind up still regretting it all on Wednesday.
This organization means that having been awakened and asked another favor involving morning transportation, I determined to take advantage of my vertical position by posting the latest Examiner temporal anomalies article and announcing it in those places where I do, Terminator part 5: square one squared. This one looks at how the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day sets up a beginning for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines which is similar to but distinct from the original history.
I am working on The Last Mimzy for the next film. I knew going in that it would be challenging, but I think I’m managing.
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–M. J. Young
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Do you want my notes on Last Mimzy? I don’t recall if you did or not.
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:31 pm
I think I’m pretty solid. I remember mostly the problems I raised, and have been attempting to address them. Right now my big struggle is, did Oriental mandalas originate because of contact with a Mimzy, and if so what was the world like when they never existed? It’s not really a simple question. Assuming that mandalas did not exist, that means one visual particularly useful form of mediation assistance was missing, and some who benefited from them would have abandoned meditation and had “ordinary” lives, which means they would have married (or married someone else) and had children (or different children), gradually over six centuries altering the population of the Orient (the identities, not the numbers) and spreading from there to the rest of the world. The scientist might have undone his own birth by that act.
So I’m working on it.
–M. J. Young
February 24th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I don’t think I ever realized how complex that movie was. I’m kind of glad I didn’t take up the challenge.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Yeah, part of it is insufficient information–we have to fill in the gaps, and they’re really big gaps. Where are all the other of the “many” Mimzys sent to the past? What was history like before the Tibetans found a Mimzy–or is that just a remarkable coincidence? If Lewis Carol had not encountered Alice’s Mimzy stories, how would that have impacted his life, and from that all the fields to which he contributed? It’s not simple.
Give me Lake House any day. At least that one plain and simple doesn’t work.
–M. J. Young
February 24th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Yeah, now you know why I did Final Countdown. Only two time travel trips.