Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
yeah I had always considered Mr Bean to be the 20th century Blackadder, never thought to link them to the Doctor though - thats brilliant
What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You?
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MarkB
Legend
And since he eventually regenerates into Joanna Lumley in the Comic Relief special, you could tie the character into Wednesday post-retirement too, with her having a daughter who married into the Addams family. Which would make Wednesday part Outcast, part Time Lord.
I’d never heard of it, so I looked it up.
The Tommy Westphall Universe — Unsupervised Nerds
The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis is a theory that has existed and grown over decades. The basic concept boils down to the idea that a huge number television shows belong to a single connected universe, and that universe exists in the mind of a child, Tommy Westphall.
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The Master List
Current Master List of all 419 Tommy Westphall Multiverse shows. As we talk about shows here, we’ll update the list to include tag links. Updated: August 2016. Title Years Aired 24 (2001-2010…
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Older Beholder
Hero
I always liked the theory that in The Big Lebowski, Donny (played by Steve Buscemi) is actually just a figment of Walter's imagination (a friend that died in the war perhaps).
There's a couple of scenes that break this, but it's still interesting to watch the film with that in mind.
There's a couple of scenes that break this, but it's still interesting to watch the film with that in mind.
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Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I’d never heard of it, so I looked it up.
The Tommy Westphall Universe — Unsupervised Nerds
The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis is a theory that has existed and grown over decades. The basic concept boils down to the idea that a huge number television shows belong to a single connected universe, and that universe exists in the mind of a child, Tommy Westphall.
The Master List
Current Master List of all 419 Tommy Westphall Multiverse shows. As we talk about shows here, we’ll update the list to include tag links. Updated: August 2016. Title Years Aired 24 (2001-2010…
Not being a fan of the TV shows concerned the Tommy Westphall dream always seemed a bit too contrived for my liking.
I was always far more enamoured of the Wold Newton Universe created by Phillip Jose Farmer who wrote that a radioactive meteorite had struck Wold Newton in England in 1795 resulting in in genetic mutation that would affect the lineage of a whole slew of literary Pulp characters including- Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes,
Solomon Kane; Captain Blood; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Harry Flashman; Professor Moriarty, Captain Nemo; Phileas Fogg. Farmer used the shared Universe idea as the basis for some of his books.
The Universe has since been expanded (and keeps expanding) to truly mindboggling proportions
Harrison Ford
Then you have the Harrison Ford Universe that starts with hieroglyphs depicting R2D2 and C3P0 in Indiana Jones and the Raiders pf the Lost Ark. Further it is claimed that the alien Skulls Indiana Jones finds in the 'Crystal Skull' belong to the aliens in Close in Encounters of the Third Kind. ET follows and we know his species appears in the Phantom Menace. Then there is speculation that the Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were made with Alien DNA and that Jaws was a hybrid Megalodon
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el-remmen
Moderator Emeritus
I think the West End Games d6 Star Wars TTRPG mentioned this, and I never got into extended universe (which to me is everything but the films themselves - save perhaps for a couple of recent shows), so not sure if it ever explicitly came up elsewhere, but I think of the Empire as following an "anti-alien" agenda that is "pro-human" and helps in their divisive tactics to better rule the galaxy and keep people down. This explains why the Empire is all human and the rebellion has a mix of folks working in solidarity.
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Mad_Jack
Legend
Yep - the Empire is very much pro-Human. I'm not that deep into the lore but, although the Sith don't much care about race (Maul was a Zabrak, and the original Sith race themselves were red-skinned), there aren't any aliens of note in the service of the Empire itself other than Grand Admiral Thrawn from the novels, a blue-skinned Chiss who rises through the Imperial Navy after the fall of the Empire in episodes IV-VI of the movies. He essentially bootstraps his way up to command rank through his own efforts due to being the most brilliant strategist in the Empire's service. He is, however, largely doing it to pursue his own goals of using the Empire to protect his own people.
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MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
This week I got exposed to an interesting Simpons theory. We saw or heard the infamous special with Billie Eilish where Lisa says her dad doesn't support her music. Well, this kind of clashes not only with Homer's actions because he has deprived himself of comfort to give Lisa an instrument and he also worked with her to help her win a singing competition. On the other hand he doesn't enjoy listening to her playing. This despite Homer being a quite talented musician and composer and having a good eye for musical talent.
Then it hits you, Lisa is a terrible sax player with lots of anecdotal evidence showing up. It is not just Homer, it is her music teacher, the jazz musicians, the time she won a talent contest basically just for participating with a broken out of tune sax -nobody noticed the difference, Skinner was going to give her first place just by being there because she brings his numbers up-. Homer can't get himself to listen to her but also doesn't have the heart to shatter her illusion. She's just 8 after all.
Then it hits you, Lisa is a terrible sax player with lots of anecdotal evidence showing up. It is not just Homer, it is her music teacher, the jazz musicians, the time she won a talent contest basically just for participating with a broken out of tune sax -nobody noticed the difference, Skinner was going to give her first place just by being there because she brings his numbers up-. Homer can't get himself to listen to her but also doesn't have the heart to shatter her illusion. She's just 8 after all.
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Mannahnin
Scion of Murgen (He/Him)
I used and really enjoyed this fan edit of the Averoigne quest section of the classic module, Castle Amber.
It makes it so the time travel potion is actually used rather than just being a McGuffin, and it simultaneously makes it so that the PCs are deliberately traveling to when each artifact/quest object was last seen, rather than coincidentally stumbling into each momentous event (from a CAS story) as it happens, in each location within Averoigne.
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It makes it so the time travel potion is actually used rather than just being a McGuffin, and it simultaneously makes it so that the PCs are deliberately traveling to when each artifact/quest object was last seen, rather than coincidentally stumbling into each momentous event (from a CAS story) as it happens, in each location within Averoigne.
Problems with Castle Amber: The Averoigne Quest
The Averoigne section of Castle Amber has always been the module’s best part (which is saying a lot, since the whole module is excellent), and that remains true in the special revamped versio…
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Ryujin
Legend
I can't say that it made "Star Trek" great for me, exactly, because it always has been but the FASA Star Trek RPG stuff really elevated the Star Trek Universe itself for me. It laid out history, interactions with other stellar nations, gave cultural context for the Romulans and Klingons that explained things like the changes to Klingon appearance over the years. All sorts of great stuff that, at the time, was also considered to be canon by Paramount and CBS.
