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From the department of over-thinking ...
Dec. 22nd, 2012 08:22 pmWHEW, I am HOME, and currently basking in solitude and uninterrupted computer time.
On the drive back, I was thinking about Once Upon a Time, and specifically, the "time stood still in Storybrooke for 28 years" part of it. I know that I'm seriously over-thinking things, but ... how did that even work? No one aged (including the kids), yet Henry was able to grow up ... is that an aspect of his specialness, or maybe because he was born in the real world?
And what about the mechanics of it? Did the seasons change? I kinda want to write the fic about the town experiencing a major U.S. holiday for the first time. (Halloween or Christmas are the ones that come to mind ...) Do people remember what happened to them on a day-to-day basis? If one of the kids memorized some French vocabulary as part of a school assignment, for example, would they still know it the next day? Could they make friends and learn new things and change as people, or did they just repeat the same day over and over? (If so ... good heavens, poor Henry. As the only person who could remember anything new, it's a wonder he's sane.)
Do they get TV reception? Cell phone service? Where do they send their utility bills?
Along those lines, one thing that I wondered about when I was watching the early episodes is where the town gets all its supplies. The pharmacy and restaurant are fully stocked; the hospital and school don't appear to be experiencing shortages of anything. Is it part of the magic? (Snow's teacher desk spontaneously generates boxes of pencils and Scotch tape ...) If so, are they now experiencing shortages for the first time ever? Or have delivery trucks always been able to get through? There's that one scene where Red is waiting at the bus stop ... would a bus actually have come, or would she just have waited forever?
*overthinks*
On the drive back, I was thinking about Once Upon a Time, and specifically, the "time stood still in Storybrooke for 28 years" part of it. I know that I'm seriously over-thinking things, but ... how did that even work? No one aged (including the kids), yet Henry was able to grow up ... is that an aspect of his specialness, or maybe because he was born in the real world?
And what about the mechanics of it? Did the seasons change? I kinda want to write the fic about the town experiencing a major U.S. holiday for the first time. (Halloween or Christmas are the ones that come to mind ...) Do people remember what happened to them on a day-to-day basis? If one of the kids memorized some French vocabulary as part of a school assignment, for example, would they still know it the next day? Could they make friends and learn new things and change as people, or did they just repeat the same day over and over? (If so ... good heavens, poor Henry. As the only person who could remember anything new, it's a wonder he's sane.)
Do they get TV reception? Cell phone service? Where do they send their utility bills?
Along those lines, one thing that I wondered about when I was watching the early episodes is where the town gets all its supplies. The pharmacy and restaurant are fully stocked; the hospital and school don't appear to be experiencing shortages of anything. Is it part of the magic? (Snow's teacher desk spontaneously generates boxes of pencils and Scotch tape ...) If so, are they now experiencing shortages for the first time ever? Or have delivery trucks always been able to get through? There's that one scene where Red is waiting at the bus stop ... would a bus actually have come, or would she just have waited forever?
*overthinks*