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I believe 'pocket rocket' is a euphemism for a short hot female with a bit of double entendre for masturbation
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Traveler 001 is the worst.
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Dec 23, 2018 08:01
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Small person but ballsy/feisty/dangerous? Like a miniature rocket looks tiny but can still gently caress poo poo up
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Dec 23, 2018 08:39
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It might have already happened and I missed it, but I'm surprised the Director didn't pick out some super rich people who were about to die and overwrite them to fund all the traveler teams by putting their money into a secret offshore or crypto account or something. I don't recall "We need money to solve problem X or buy a thing to solve Y" coming up, and you can surely get money easily by abusing lottery wins or stock knowledge, but that seems like a lot of bang for your buck there. Maybe it might not be worth that approach with how much it could alter history, but then again the whole idea is to alter history in all sorts of ways, so putting that money to use instead of funneling it to a random charity or back into a business or heirs is probably a fine trade-off. Something in the back of my head tells me that historians have low-profile $25k-ish lotto numbers ready to go to grab cash and then increase that via investing, which I guess is fine too for most things and makes sense with the independent travelers cell thing going on. I also think that's one thing I missed in this season, we didn't see many other travelers cells in play, aside from being able to phone them up for future tech as needed. I would have liked to see some of what the other full-team cells might have been up to, maybe a few cutaways to them totally beefing it in the places that got blown up. It could have been fun to see more direct evidence of the FBI knowing about and keeping tabs on teams as well, aside from the throwaway line of them taking out a few cells in the S3 premiere.
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Dec 23, 2018 09:01
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Huh, to me pocket rocket is a specific toy. You should log onto amazon.com and search for it.
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Dec 23, 2018 09:11
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Lycus posted:Is there an example of overwriting more than a few times over a long period time? I think the most we've seen are the faction people and marcy getting a second rewrite, which was enough for Macs partner to get a bit of a nosebleed. So it probably cooks you eventually.
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Dec 23, 2018 10:39
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Flesh Forge posted:I believe 'pocket rocket' is a euphemism for a short hot female with a bit of double entendre for masturbation The hot female lead that pulls in the horny, male, nerd audience. As if I need that incentive for a time travel based show. See: Troi in Star Trek.
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Dec 23, 2018 18:13
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She can fit in your pocket I assume
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Dec 23, 2018 18:32
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No, but your hand can 
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Dec 23, 2018 19:51
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So threads S4 ideas for all those producers who read SA: Old Mac David as a Traveller Kat as a Traveller
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Dec 24, 2018 02:09
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"My two Mac's" with Mclaren and another instance of his traveler's future self downloading into a different body acting side by side. With traveling within the same 21st timeline as an established thing, and not necessarily requiring you to do it in the same host, have multiple instances of the same traveler (or small group of travelers, but this seems to work better with just one and maaaybe 2) active in the same timeframe. As an example of how this could work: Traveler is in the body of "Frank" in 2018. They travel back into a different body "Tom" with an arrival point in 2017. Now as Tom goes forward in time before long that same traveler is present at the same point in time in two different bodies. And you can repeat that a fair amount, maybe end up with about 10 of the same traveler consciousness active at the same time. Maybe you have some fun with one of those instances being killed and also simultaneously killing or undoing the consciousness transfer on multiple bodies, since they were further down the chain and would have only happened if that instance of the traveler was alive to do that. But that doesn't stop the bad guy (because of course if you do this it's coolest if it's a bad guy) since he can arrange for a different transfer to the past and start a new chain. It also adds a ticking clock to this traveler's plans since it's a very plausible rule that they can't keep up this duplication past the point in time that they originally sent their consciousness back, if they try to do so the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Dang, that's the wildest thing I've thought of yet and probably what I most want to see the show do now. It's certainly a premise that's been done in time travel fiction before, but I'd love to see Travelers' take on it with the unique time travel gimmicks of this show.
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Dec 24, 2018 04:25
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I guess if you find the first people to live to be 450 years old who all happen to live in New York.
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Dec 24, 2018 04:54
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Gridlocked posted:So threads S4 ideas for all those producers who read SA: I am down for all of these, yes.
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Dec 24, 2018 04:55
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But Kat and David don't deserve to die.
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Dec 24, 2018 05:07
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Everyone dies in this show Marcy didn't deserve to die but she did like 4 times Old Marcy got brain melted by 001 Melted Marcy would have been killed by the thieves New Marcy was overwritten Newer Marcy ate a bullet rather than let 001 do evil poo poo
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Dec 24, 2018 06:05
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NowonSA posted:"My two Mac's" with Mclaren and another instance of his traveler's future self downloading into a different body acting side by side. Mac n' me.
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Dec 24, 2018 06:50
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Caros posted:Mac n' me. Thank god I wasn't the only one
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Dec 24, 2018 13:46
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So how did Trevor get so old and live through three lifetimes when the Traveler program only started in the last 20 years?
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Marmaduke! posted:So how did Trevor get so old and live through three lifetimes when the Traveler program only started in the last 20 years? He was involved in the early development of consciousness transfer technology before they started using it with time travel.
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Dec 24, 2018 18:28
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Trevor is amazing.
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Dec 24, 2018 18:33
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I wonder how they picked someone to transfer into without knowing who would die.
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Dec 24, 2018 20:32
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Cojawfee posted:I wonder how they picked someone to transfer into without knowing who would die. Probably used volunteers or criminals. While the director cant kill humans nothing stops the humans developing the tech from doing it.
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Dec 24, 2018 21:24
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WrightOfWay posted:He was involved in the early development of consciousness transfer technology before they started using it with time travel. Ah, thanks, that makes much more sense!
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Dec 24, 2018 22:10
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Given how fanatically devoted a lot of people are to the grand plan, I wouldn't be surprised if people volunteered to be overwritten.
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Dec 24, 2018 22:43
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Especially if living in the post-apoc future is terrible.
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Dec 24, 2018 22:47
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Lycus posted:Especially if living in the post-apoc future is terrible. There's bound to be some pretty rad benefits to letting your entire consciousness die as part of an experiment. Their families are probably set for life eating actual food! That kind of early Trevor-style traveling is basically what I'm positing in my crazy "One traveler 10 bodies" idea, it's just being done with hops back to the past to let multiples of the same traveler be around at once. It still begins at the present so the only involvement of the future is that Traveler's first takeover of a 21st century body, and then they keep doing it 001 style but adding time travel to it. Having the traveler involved become increasingly deranged as they get further down the body transfer chain is an obvious move, but hey it'd still be fun to see.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Huh, to me pocket rocket is a specific toy. You should log onto amazon.com and search for it. They named the toy after the phrase.
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Dec 25, 2018 02:17
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I love this show. But I still think it would make more sense for the future to send back a bunch of future tech and what not rather than sending agents to have shoot outs in empty warehouses.
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Dec 26, 2018 05:06
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I don't think they can send anything other than conciousnesses and messengers to the past. The future tech like nanites and the laser that deflected Helios were built in the 21st by travelers.
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nickmeister posted:I love this show. But I still think it would make more sense for the future to send back a bunch of future tech and what not rather than sending agents to have shoot outs in empty warehouses. They can't. The central part of the show's concept is that they can only send consciousnesses and messages.
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Dec 26, 2018 05:36
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well, they can send 'engineers' who can whip up nanotechnology in a bathtub
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Lycus posted:They can't. The central part of the show's concept is that they can only send consciousnesses and messages. It's like altered carbon but with time travel and also better
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Dec 26, 2018 08:26
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After every season I forget how awesome this show is then am delighted at how awesome it is when I watch it again.
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nickmeister posted:I love this show. But I still think it would make more sense for the future to send back a bunch of future tech and what not rather than sending agents to have shoot outs in empty warehouses. This is against Candian law
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Dec 26, 2018 09:15
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nickmeister posted:I love this show. But I still think it would make more sense for the future to send back a bunch of future tech and what not rather than sending agents to have shoot outs in empty warehouses. That would have been a lot more expensive to produce. Milo and POTUS posted:It's like altered carbon but with time travel and also better Case in point, Altered Carbon costs between 6 and 7 million dollars per episode. Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Dec 26, 2018 |
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Dec 26, 2018 09:40
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Like, I get that they are trapped in a nuclear wasteland with no resources or hope. But surely they could send back specialists to build super-clean energy sources or something. Anyways, that one shot of the future with the old guy and his wife watching the sunlight was beautiful. I knew when I saw it that that was going to be the only future scene in the series. Does anyone have a still of it?
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Dec 26, 2018 14:56
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They mention several times that they don't want current governments to fight over the tech/torture travelers for more.
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Gaunab posted:They mention several times that they don't want current governments to fight over the tech/torture travelers for more. Which is why they have travelers set up companies instead of just being like, "Hey guys, we're from the future, here are some magic gizmos!"
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Dec 26, 2018 21:23
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Flesh Forge posted:That would have been a lot more expensive to produce. Coincidentally the action choreography could use some improvement. It's my least favorite part of the show I think
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nickmeister posted:Which is why they have travelers set up companies instead of just being like, "Hey guys, we're from the future, here are some magic gizmos!" what happens with that tech once it gets made? good stuff? bad stuff? clean, limitless power might just be another way of saying hegemony hell-bent on world domination.
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