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Aah, but Wells is arguably not exactly someone on whom the term "inconspicous" would fit...
He could be trying to fit in this time around? Wearing a Big Apricot t-shirt and a baseball cap.>
Uh...that's a weird imagination. Also, isn't, in the LC universe, MP not the substitute for NY, and rather placed somewhere around Delaware? (I think to have read about that somehwere), so not sure if the Apricot thing would still apply...
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<I can get a lot from pop-culture knowledge and inference
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Yeah, guess that helps... Ultimately, that pretty much was how I came to it. I just wanted to know what everyone was talking about.
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also nitpick: that's temporarily not temporally.
TEMPUS: I knew that the British dude had a weird accent. I never thought he meant "temporally" literally.>
Ah, English and its adverbs...must love them...
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<Yeah...Then again, they did introduce the concept of Utopia into the story.>
True...but that's an entirely different Wellsian novel not related to the Time Machine one, and not even set in the future but a parallel dimension. The society in Time Machine one was, in fact, more of a dystopia
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<Hence the laughing. But like in a zoo, as long as we're kept behind a glass wall, the feces we sling at the audience are kept contained.>
And same goes for a travel guide: So long as you have no personal exposition, you're safe.
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<So, next time, the crook should gag Lois before throwing her out of an airplane?>
If they want to be succesful in their assasination attempt...probably?
LOIS: I have no time for gags. I'm a no nonsense reporter. And regardless of what some people might claim, my life is *not* a sitcom!
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>Also, she does have her filled out ten-rescues-get-the-elenth-one-free loyalty cards.>
...How useful exactly are these though when Superman doesn't take payment? Or is she keeping them in case Waldecker is ever stepping up as temporary stand-in?
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<She's still hoping to get the hidden price for collecting ten filled out loyalty cards which earns her membership in the mile-high club.>
Ah, so that was were the "super date in the clouds" took place?
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<Aaaah...which is also why Lois always falls, because she's such an inquisitive person, she couldn't let the falling slide.>
LOL Exactly. Lois is too much fact-based. Clark's the one for the "soft and feely" stuff.
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<Ooooh, nice one. But wouldn't an Adam-Eve situation kind of hamper the gene pool?>
...which is why it wouldn't work well, as I pointed out just in the next line... Also, no fancy powers, which'd be a downer! Lois loves her personal flights!
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<yeah, I guess she's just not as important as Clark is to the story.>
Indeed. It's just a ficlet. And I really didn't knew how to work her in well there. Also, it's kinda vague in the timeline so...not even sure if she "knows" at that point...
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</points above/ I probably a lot of them. Just maybe not the extra layers?>
I'd definitely say you did quite well!
Nick
PS: Ah yeah, I probably screwed that up..I tried a different approach this time. Better?
