Frequency -- 1996 was 20 years ago. (Wednesdays on CW)

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raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

Lamont posted:

I guess I kinda get that...but then the question is, where does the history that she DOES remember come from? Something has to happen in those 20 years, and her mom disappearing seems to be a direct result of her changing the past, which is what also causes all her new memories to appear. Eh...maybe I shouldn't think about it too hard.

It seemed like the rules are something like this:
1) She can remember all of the original timeline
2) She can remember things as they "happen" concurrently, exactly 20 years ago
3) She can remember things when people in the current, changed timeline mention them, like her dad dying in the car crash or her mom being murdered by the nightingale killer

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raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

AbstractNapper posted:

I really liked the movie; I still rewatch it every couple of years or so.

And this seems ok so far. I mean it's their main gimmick to change the past a lot, and there certainly are going to be some problems with the multiple timelines and eg how conveniently some radio talks and subsequet actions change the past and others don't.... But at least they have some ground rules. Mainly, that the radio needs to keep working and that they can't reset past the point where Frank is at; only Frank's future.

Given that this is a tv show, I wonder what their plan is to keep things interesting for a full season (and even across seasons).

Well, clearly this season's arc is "catch the killer before he murders Mom" but who knows what they could use as a later season hook, probably that changing that event causes something else catastrophic to happen?
The only thing I don't think would happen would be that changing any events causes anything to happen to Raimy, since that would cripple the concept of the show.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 13:56

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

I actually did just think of a season hook idea -after solving the mystery and saving her parents, she gets a transmission from 20 years in the future from someone who's trying to save her from being murdered.

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