Prognostications

"Patrick Frawley" (geistkoenig) 12/17/2014 at 16:48 • Filed to: Route 66, Nostradamus, no don't ask me about lottery numbers asshole

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Well, this is a pleasant (if slightly creepy) coincidence:

http://jalopnik.com/ten-car-shows-…

http://autoweek.com/article/car-li…

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Patrick Frawley 12/17/2014 at 16:57

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Now taking bets on how long it would take said reboot to have an urban fantasy/magical realism looney episode. Granted, this isn't the 80s, but still. Encapsulated story setting-of-the-day with no need to explain dangling threads + viewpoint character limit = Twin Peaks in a hurry, at least for an episode or two. Writers get bored.

Patrick Frawley > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/17/2014 at 17:03

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Or maybe something like the "Buffy" musical episode?

Could be a train wreck. Could be brilliant. Could be an utterly brilliant train wreck.

PS: I was around for "Twin Peaks" when it premiered, while I was going through a massive depressive phase in a suburban Detroit high school. That show was a gift from God. Nothing else has really come close.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Patrick Frawley 12/17/2014 at 17:15

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Every show with a formula has at least one bonkers episode, often one or more per season - though what qualifies as bonkers depends on the baseline of the show. Scrubs rarely flirted with the out-and-out supernatural/etc., but ordinary "weirdness" had to be very, very high to be out of the norm - like Scrubs' own musical episode. Buffy's musical episode or puppets episode would count. Voyager's "Janeway and Paris mutate into salamanders" episode would count as well, although that episode totally doesn't exist according to any fan (a cautionary tale that you should be giving your writers an outlet for weird impulse instead of making them work it into "normal" episodes, perhaps).

Generally, the goofy episode has at least some level of fit with the show. With Quantum Leap, perhaps the leaped-into-a-vampire-who-isn't-a-vampire-except-he-really-is episode would be a good example. Standard-ish setup and delivery, but with some really weird story furniture and structure.

With Route 66, I'd expect the "weirdness" episode to be a brush with the supernatural in either A: the woods, or B: the desert. In the first case, something based on a haunt or "spook story", and in the latter, something involving southwest/NA/gold legend. It would probably only hint at the supernatural up until a twist-flavored ending.

I now expect you to remind me of saying this when it happens, because I will totally forget and be as surprised as anybody when it does.

Patrick Frawley > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 12/17/2014 at 17:21

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Oooooh. Roswell!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Patrick Frawley 12/17/2014 at 17:22

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Oh yeah, probably.