Sunday, March 30, 2014

Speculation and Reaction (S01E02)

Driver
Of all the questions from my "33 Questions" post, I think my favorite one was "What or who is Driver?" Nice. Driver is the car... duh! That makes my predictions for Garage and Booster easier. Although I can't say this is unoriginal: first time I've heard a story with a transsexual sentient car. I really like this idea so I hope people won't take it too seriously. If any human character used gender bias as reasoning for gender reassignment that might be perceived as politically incorrect. I found the situation funny because what else would AI do, but make a calculated rational decision for itself based on irrational bias from humans.

Angels
I really like the description of angels and I want to see what the non-fallen angles are like in comparison to Azial. Maybe we'll hear the back-story of what happened during the great insurrection. It would be neat to hear a "His Dark Materials" type epic.

Zebulon Pike
Distinctive black shirt with blue jeans. Hmm, okay, I think I figured out the equation:

Zebulon Pike = Steve Job's fashion sense and showmanship + Bill Gate's wealth + Amazon's services + Google's influence and glasses + A.U. Rookman's sinister plan.

The Flask
Mentioned again 3 more times. Just sayin'.

Retcon and Time Travel
It was alluded that the computer from Mr. Inns came from the future. Is time travel a thing in this universe? If it is, the series took the widest universe possible and just expanded it to another dimension. I'm hoping it wasn't that straightforward because it would be so easy to use time-travel as the easy magic solution to every single mission tasked to The 33.

That being said, we were just introduced to a concept 100 times more intriguing than time travel: retcons.
“Retcons are rare— or at least we think they are,”
What a great plot device! The characters have no way of knowing if they are rare. Retroactively changing the consciousness of all humans would even allow for some literal retconning of the actual series and still keep a consistent cannon. I think this idea is much more clever and holds so much more potential than time travel. This might be my favorite concept from this universe so far.

Episode 3
These two episodes have been great setup to the universe. I feel like the Pramantha story has been a little overshadowed by the same stuff every pilot episode has to establish. That's okay because I expect episodes 3 and 4 will probably cover the topic thoroughly.