A Change in Format

Starting with the upcoming Star Wars reviews, I will be changing how I review material. Up till now I've been giving basic, traditional reviews about what was good or bad about the work. But in order to establish certain elements that will factor into my theory about the continuity inconsistencies and the unexplained bits of the prequels, I will be moving to the recap format, popular among many video reviewers, as well as text-based ones.

Now I will be going through a run-down of plot and characters and continuity as I summarize each film or book or whatever. That way, it will give readers who aren't familiar with the works more context for my continuity entries, and it will remind those who are of certain elements important to my theories.

That is all for now.

From the Dust Returned External Continuity

*SPOILERS*

There is so much to talk about.

To start with, A Thousand Times Great Grandmère is often called the Dust Witch. Maybe Timothy should think twice about listening to her...

Okay, maybe it's not a big deal. Obviously she's not Madamoiselle Tarot or the time travelling tattoo artist. Moving on...

In "Make Haste to Live" the character of Angelina Marguerite is a Time Lady. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it. The evidence is that she is unfathomably old, she gets younger-looking all the time, and at one point is called a "daughter of time".

From the Dust Returned Internal Continuity (SPOILERS)

Surprisingly, especially for a book that was worked on over 55 years, this book has issues within itself, which must be dealt with before figuring out how exactly it fits with the others.

Fortunately, there are only a few things, so it won't be a long post.

The first couple have to do with  the character of Cecy, who can move her mind out and enter other beings or even inanimate objects to see what it's like to be them.

First of all, in the chapter entitled "Homecoming", at one point Cecy dreamily tells her brother Timothy that she's in the mind of a lonely woman in California. Moments later, the woman walks into the mud pots near her house, allowing herself to be engulfed by the mud and the sulfurous fumes. When this happens, Cecy quickly moves into the mind of a bird and flies off. Just seconds later, there is a smack as a bird hits the attic window and Cecy announces that her mind has fully returned to the House.

The Secret of Lost in Space

Here is a short, fun post. Don't take it too seriously.

Unless you want to, of course.

I have recently made a major discovery:

Something Wicked This Way Comes Continuity

SPOILERS and stuff...

First of all, I've since learned that The Illustrated Man has had several editions, some including a couple of stories from The Martian Chronicles. That's gonna be difficult to work into the timeline...

Now I will demonstrate why I think Something Wicked This Way Comes is in the same timeline as The Illustrated Man.

The Illustrated Man Part 2: Timeline and Continuity (WARNING: Spoilers for a 60-year-old Book!)

It is time to try to fit the stories of  The Illustrated Man into a single timeline, if it can be done.

Now, given that the Illustrated Man has tattoos over his body, given by a crazy woman from the future, this implies that the stories in the book are all on the same timeline. Of course, "crazy woman from the future" could explain any and all continuity discrepencies, but where's the fun in that?

It's much more fun to invent convoluted theories to explain things, even when it's easier just to ignore the issues that don't really much matter in the first place. In fact, I myself have developed the most insane, convoluted, completely unnecessary theory that's even bigger than the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis. But that can wait for another time. Here is the timeline: