The Alive Man
11-Dec-2006, 11:05 PM
No more continuity errors.
There's no more need to appeal to the lame, dull and pointless "It'all a dream in Mike's head" scenario in order to "fix" or "unflubbing" the continuity errors scattered throughout the series.
Everything is on the table: the end of 'PHANTASM I'; the double-crossed beginnings of 'PHANTASM II'; the mysteriously-reloaded weapons in 'PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD'; the time travelling and ambivalent conclusion in 'PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION'.
Everything finally explained:
When in 'PHANTASM I' Mike, Jody and Reggie disrupted the quantical vibration of the interdimensional gateway (the diapason/giant tuning fork), they somewhat caused a periodical 'glitch' in the fabric of the continuum.
The sonic interference made Tall Man's house/lair disappear and thus damaged the reality, turning it into an highly unstable "tissue", often subjected to re-arrangements: basically, from this point Mike and Reggie's timeline will always be periodically shocked by the glitches which re-write the continuity of the events -----> As named in the comics world, 'RET-CONNING' (retroactive continuity, see Wikipedia if you aren't a comic geek).
So in the end, Reggie died (he was stabbed in the belly), but the first glitch caused him to "live" and not remember anything, because the event itself was ret-conned: manipulated; changed; altered; deformed forever. Basically he was never stabbed in the reality subsequent to the first glitch.
The second glitch happened at the very end of the movie. JODY died in the same car accident which killed Mike's parents many years ago. It did *NOT* happen this way in the original reality ----> but the past has been altered by the quantical wave of instability (AGAIN!)
And so on, on, on and on.
Bottom line: the reality of the 'PHANTASM' series has been seriously damaged to the point IT IS SUBMITTED TO RET-CONNING OF PAST EVENTS. EVERYWHILE.
The Tall Man knows about the glitches, of course, but can't do anything to stop them. He is aware of them courtesy of his "interdimensional" nature (he's in part an alien machine, bestowed with the technology which caused the glitches to begin with) and so is Mike, who is able to remember (he's the Tall Man counterpart).
The Alive Man
There's no more need to appeal to the lame, dull and pointless "It'all a dream in Mike's head" scenario in order to "fix" or "unflubbing" the continuity errors scattered throughout the series.
Everything is on the table: the end of 'PHANTASM I'; the double-crossed beginnings of 'PHANTASM II'; the mysteriously-reloaded weapons in 'PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD'; the time travelling and ambivalent conclusion in 'PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION'.
Everything finally explained:
When in 'PHANTASM I' Mike, Jody and Reggie disrupted the quantical vibration of the interdimensional gateway (the diapason/giant tuning fork), they somewhat caused a periodical 'glitch' in the fabric of the continuum.
The sonic interference made Tall Man's house/lair disappear and thus damaged the reality, turning it into an highly unstable "tissue", often subjected to re-arrangements: basically, from this point Mike and Reggie's timeline will always be periodically shocked by the glitches which re-write the continuity of the events -----> As named in the comics world, 'RET-CONNING' (retroactive continuity, see Wikipedia if you aren't a comic geek).
So in the end, Reggie died (he was stabbed in the belly), but the first glitch caused him to "live" and not remember anything, because the event itself was ret-conned: manipulated; changed; altered; deformed forever. Basically he was never stabbed in the reality subsequent to the first glitch.
The second glitch happened at the very end of the movie. JODY died in the same car accident which killed Mike's parents many years ago. It did *NOT* happen this way in the original reality ----> but the past has been altered by the quantical wave of instability (AGAIN!)
And so on, on, on and on.
Bottom line: the reality of the 'PHANTASM' series has been seriously damaged to the point IT IS SUBMITTED TO RET-CONNING OF PAST EVENTS. EVERYWHILE.
The Tall Man knows about the glitches, of course, but can't do anything to stop them. He is aware of them courtesy of his "interdimensional" nature (he's in part an alien machine, bestowed with the technology which caused the glitches to begin with) and so is Mike, who is able to remember (he's the Tall Man counterpart).
The Alive Man