[UA] Currency (was America by Prime Time)

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> >Film Buffs with decry the film for this glaring continuity error, but the
> >majority of the Sleeping Tiger won't notice, especially if there's a large
> >enough explosion centre screen at the time.  But in the back of their
> > head, they know that they've seen this weird white building in Chicago.
> >
> >And as that spreads, the Cliomancer in Sydney, used to picking up his
> >sig.charge from the Opera House, suddenly finds that there's not as much
> >mojo as there used to be.
>
> This is a neat idea, but I think it'd probably backfire. The clueless
> general public would definitely hear about the "continuity error", even if
> they didn't notice it when they went to see the film. Before long, it'd be
> known as "that stupid film where they put the Sydney Opera House in
> downtown Chicago", thus raising the global awareness of the site.

So continuity nitpickers are, like, this cosmological defence mechanism on 
the part of the universe, who heroically battle attempts to warp our 
perception of space and time and geography by evil sorcerers?

Cool.

I feel so much better about myself now.

> james the cat
Gar
http://www.mytholder.f2s.com

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