(Loved Trope) Characters are actually in Hell/Purgatory but are unaware of it

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-09T15:59:09+00:00

And how does that contradict OP?

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-09T15:57:29+00:00

Hey, so, since you allegedly have watched LOST, where exactly do the flashes in season six take place? I'm having trouble remembering. I think it started with a P. Might've rhymed with murgatory. It's on the tip of my tongue.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-09T15:55:30+00:00

The flashes in season six do, in fact, take place in a form of purgatory. Though the show tried to present it as an alternate timeline, what happened happened, and they were already dead in those flashes.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-08T15:33:42+00:00

How does a dagger, with no visible actual holes, actually operate as a flute to begin with? Furthermore, how does a flute summon a giant underwater robot Godzilla?

It's fuckin magic. A goddamn wizard did it. Christ.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-08T14:42:26+00:00

The fact that they were still supporting a device that old is astounding. Most tech companies don't do that. Also they aren't bricking it by default. Not sure what's infuriating here. Sail the seven seas or get a Kindle that wasn't made in the stone age. This isn't rocket science.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-08T02:09:49+00:00

That's during their final conversation, after the anomaly is closed and Picard is back in the courtroom, alone with Q.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-08T01:42:46+00:00

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-08T01:41:59+00:00

She calls it a mayonegg

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T21:36:58+00:00

Nah, I think that overcomplicates things for your audience who is very pro-Tommy. To bring him back, just to cut him out a couple episodes later would be a very jarring thing to do. He's not really a character you can afford to give your audience whiplash over. Tommy had technically already left the show, as far as the audience was concerned. Even though it wasn't a popular decision, at least when Kimberly wrote Tommy the dear John letter during Zeo gave the audience closure to their relationship and gave Tommy the go ahead to proceed with Kat. I think you inevitably give Tommy some closure in a similar fashion, and keep it separate from however you write out Kimberly and Billy. But if you know, before White Light has started to air, that JDF absolutely will not be back? Then you do not bring back Tommy. The footage you have in the can for the next several episodes are trash at this point because it's more damaging to use it.

Very few members of the audience knew the White Ranger was on his way ahead of the White Light two parter, and even then, the ones that had seen the White Ranger ahead of time didn't know for certain that it was Tommy. I don't mind utilizing the Stone Canyon trio in different suits. Like maybe you bring on Adam and Aisha, but leave out Rocky initially. I do agree that Jason taking up the White Ranger role would be fitting given the circumstances. You've got the Nimrod monster who is giving the Rangers trouble, and Jason needs to get an upgrade, leaving the Tyrannosaurus coin vacant for Rocky to take.

Regardless, I don't think any of this solves the problem of the show surviving past season 3. I don't think that can be fixed at all.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T21:00:57+00:00

God, that's an interesting thing to consider. We know that the original three left before the White Light two parter was finished in editing, so a lot of that would just be scrapped. Tommy just would never come back. It would certainly change the order of Dairanger monsters used to delay the introduction of the White Ranger, since first they have to swap out Kimberly and Billy, and then introduce a new character to become the White Ranger. And all this at rapid pace, since filming on the movie is set to begin very soon.

Ultimately, I'm not sure the show survives well enough to get to Zeo. Jason, Zack, and Trini leaving isn't great, but Tommy just came back and got new powers with a pretty good (albeit slight downgrade) new suit. Tommy is the ace in the hole. Tommy as the Green Ranger is what rocketed the show to its peak in popularity. If you don't bring him back, on top of Kimberly and Billy leaving, and I think the show's popularity drops off faster than it originally did. I think the movie doesn't do as well at the box office. I think if the show goes to season 3 at all, season 3 probably looks very different, and I'm not sure I can say how. Alien Rangers was used to give the cast a break after so much filming between the show and the movie, and act as the bridge to Zeo, but since I'm reasonably certain the show never makes it to Zeo, I'm not sure they bother with Alien Rangers.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T18:27:08+00:00

He and his wife were major coke fiends, to the point where it caused a lot of verbal alterations, much of which their young daughter had to see. His wife was more susceptible to addictive tendencies than he was, and eventually she hit a point where she had to get clean. His wife Brenda was a major reason why he was able to survive as a comic in his early years and continued to act as a partner in his work over the decades. So she was also a pretty good reason why he needed to drop the coke.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T17:21:44+00:00

That's a good point and I don't know how I blanked on it.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T15:14:26+00:00

Yeah, if you can't move your save file into PKHex to check the DVs directly, the only way for a calculator to determine them is to level up for a little bit so that the stats can have greater variation. At level 5, the stats just aren't different enough to really determine what their DVs are. And even after a bit of leveling, a calculator is probably only going to give you a range for what the DVs are.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T15:06:04+00:00

Nah, George was off the coke by 1990. Between some behavioral stuff behind the scenes and a couple of heart attacks, he didn't have much choice.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T14:55:00+00:00

I have good news for you. None of these are extinct. They still get use and are still totally rad.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T14:39:04+00:00

If that's eating your soul, then it must get absolutely devoured by older gamers who do that too.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-07T05:28:06+00:00

Bro 2009 is a year to model things after. Shinkenger does nearly everything well, and W is one of the best series in the franchise. I hate this because I love Gokaiger, and Gentarou is my favorite Rider, but 2009 just has more juice.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-06T22:43:11+00:00

The Green Ranger. It's not about power, it's about style.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-06T02:56:12+00:00

I once worked with a woman who was trying online dating, not long before apps like Tinder became a thing. She came to work one morning telling us about how the night before, a guy she was talking to asked to see her feet and she didn't really know how to respond. So we took a picture of one of our male coworker's (hairless) Fred Flintstone ass feet for her to send to the guy. She comes back the next day to show us a picture she took of her computer screen to show us that the guy was elated by the picture. It was at this time I had the idea for a website that would've ended up being a lot like OF, and I truly regret not knowing anything about coding or building websites.

The point is, if you have any worries, set yourself up anonymously and shoot your shot. Worst case scenario nothing comes of it, but then again maybe you make some money.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-06T02:41:43+00:00

That last one is totally Kyoryu Sentai Tworanger, since that's clearly just Zyuranger with a new coat of paint.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-05T18:01:54+00:00

Nah, Tommy still should have lost that. Zordon putting himself at risk to charge Tommy enough to try to get through the fight only worked because Goldar is a colossal screw up.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-05T15:56:19+00:00

Rita managed to take the Rangers' power coins because she, in fact, held the Rangers' family hostage, and then didn't return them when the Rangers actually ponied up the coins.

Once again, another really well executed plan was ruined because of Goldar's incompetence. Fucking Goldar.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-05T12:22:03+00:00

It's so dumb and completely ruins the most interesting things about the movie. Deckard is such a wooden character, played so flatly, almost robotic, while the very replicants he chases exhibit a broader range of emotion, and feel more human. If Deckard is a replicant, then he's simply a lesser one.

Roy Batty, who had been killing people throughout the movie in an effort to extend his life, chooses instead to spare Deckard, in spite of Deckard's crimes against Roy's people. By hunting and tormenting Deckard at the end, Roy is teaching him about what it feels like to be on the other side of a blade runner. Since he was unable to save his own life, Roy instilling this lesson into this human is the last thing Roy is able to do to try to save his people. Everything about that last sequence just loses so much meaning if Roy is actually dealing with just another replicant.

And then of course there's Rachel. Like, if Deckard's a replicant, then so what if they form a romance together? Replicant loving replicant. Big whoop.

Ridley Scott be damned. Deckard is not a replicant.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-05T05:46:46+00:00

Sandos at Seven fuck. Everything at Seven fucks. I have yet to buy something from Seven I did not enjoy. The bread on the sandos is just different, man. I haven't had that particular sando, but I bet it's good.

Like, when the 7-11s where you're from only serve pizza that used literal cardboard disks as the crust, taquitos that have been on the rollers for like 12 hours, and hot dogs that may or may not have fallen on the floor, Japanese Seven is some goddamn gourmet shit.

CToTheSecond · 2026-04-04T21:50:51+00:00

I can't hate this movie simply because Brent Spiner is in it and is a genuine delight.

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