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In 2117, Cochrane was presumed lost. This is approximately fifty years after the flight of the Phoenix. Was he waiting out the fifty year period to see if the people of the future were honest?
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Frequent use of alcohol can make one look older than he really is.
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And I heard radiation doesn't do good things to your skin, too.
The whole Cochrane incident... they better address it in a conversation in an episode. Like Mayweather telling Tucker "Wow, this disappearance could be as important as Cochrane's." or a stupidity of sorts.
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Yes, because tiny throwaway line to please the anal fans = quality.
And I was going for the crazy idea that good writing and acting = quality. Tsk. I am humbled.
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Good continuity and good writing are not mutually exclusive, just harder.
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Liam, I didn't think you could be so retentive...
Come on, the guy made the historical fact that made their voyages possible, and it was really recent for them (less than 100 years). Being his dissappearance a mystery, I bet Cochrane turned to be their Elvis, or something.
They can't make an episode around it (with Cochrane actually present, I mean), unless they travel back in time *shudders*. The only other way is a memorial.
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And good writing and nice continuity points are not as important as each other. Little touches like that are the icing on the cake. They make it a bit sweeter, but they're not vital by any means.
Besides, how often when you're driving your car do you mention Henry Ford? How often in everyday life do you mention Elvis?
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Believe me that I thought of Henry Ford too (and the Wright Brothers) while I was writing that, and I made myself the same question. The answer: I'll probably talk about any of them, or watch a documentary about any of them at least once this year (I'm already covered with Ford, thanks to the History Channel).
About Elvis, everybody loves a legend. Enough to mention it once in a while. I do remember it at least on his birthday (and I'm Argentinian).
These examples are legends, and for sure you can't help remembering a legend once in a while. That's what I was meaning with Cochrane.
I insist on the retro-continuity. Provided that it's easy to remember such a legend, I say it's plausible that they include some kind of Cochrane memorial during the series run. And no, it won't represent any kind of stretch in the plot. At all, I'm sure.
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Ah. Fair enough. Personally, I am quite likely to go the entire year without watching any documentaries on Ford or the Wright Brothers, and I have no idea when Elvis' birthday is.
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But we don't see the characters' entire year. We see less than twenty hours of every year. What are the chances of catching a Henry Ford reference if we take twenty hours out of an entire year of your life? Especially if we only see the interesting bits (which I doubt would include your watching the History Channel, or your discussing this here).
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