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Madilayn
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I just re-watched the two "Sky is Falling" episodes and just got completely kerflummoxed.
I refuse to believe that, within the last five episides, that Mark is still only 18 - or even nearly 19 - as the statement puts him. Anderson says that he was 4 when Cronus took off, and that was 14 years ago.
Now - I can believe 18 at the beginning of the series, but even if we say that Mark's going to be 19 the next day (after the statement is made) and saying 24 months for all the attacks, it seems a little outlandish.
Yes - all right. It's all outlandish - but timewise.
I can't see that there would be more than one Spectran attack per month - just logistics of building a mecha, travel from Spectra etc., tell me this.
So - by episode 80 at one attack per month, we hve 80 months - which is about 6.5 years. And if he's 18 at tht time, it makes Mark 14 at the start!!
Even if we allow for one two-parter before then, it still puts it at about the same timeframe.
I can understand an interplanetary war dragging on for that long - look at WWI, WWII and Vietnam - not to mention the current Gulf conflicets - but I just can't buy 14 being the age of the team when they start fighting.
On the other hand - doing these calculations has been an eye opener and much "hmmmm" for fic writing for me.
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15-05-2010 23:29
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There's one thing about timelines, almost always the writer bungles it in one way or another, unless the timeline is so short it is nonexistent. I've poked holes in the timelines of Faulkner and other published writers.
In TV, movies, and plays it is easy to do. Let's use M*A*S*H for an example with Alan Alda and Loretta Swit, the only two actors from beginning to end. The TV show outlasted the war by well over a decade, the actors aged, but by the timeline, the characters wouldn't have.
Mel Gibson was way too old to play Hamlet who theoretically should have been between the ages of 15 to 25 (In an academic exercise it was pinned down closer to 20, if I remember correctly, but that was a few years ago).
In the Harry Potter series, JK Rowing couldn't keep the ages of the Weasley boys straight. By what she originally said in an interview, Harry would have gone to school with all of them. But by what she had written, Bill and Charley should have been considerably older than the others.
Therefore the beauty of fanfiction is we can bend timelines and still have it be believable to most readers so long as the story itself is believable.
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16-05-2010 00:03
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And the BotP writers, in this case, kept to the ages of the original Gatch episodes.
And BotP, like Gatchaman, was directed at young children. G4 was essentially a member of the target audience (or a little older than said audience).
If we keep to the idea that the war with Spectra created special circumstances, then we can have a team of soldiers trained since very early childhood. Said team could see action at the relatively tender age of 17/18 years.
In previous centuries, children of the noble classes spent their lives in training for their duties, which included warfare. They might not be able to read very well, but the boys could kill before their voices cracked.
And, as Amethyst said, the beauty of fanfiction is that we can 'correct' these errors in the timeline.
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16-05-2010 11:02
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