Ruth wrote: >There is, in fact, a rather enormous inconsistency in a Quarter to >Midnight which makes the whole situation impossible. As shown by the >handy little time given at the beginning of the episode,(10:51pm?) >we can safely assume that Lynda was locked in the vault less than an >hour later, as she quite firmly told Spike she'd be there in 20 mins. >If this is so, wouldn't the door have opened in about half an hour, not >over 24 hours later?] Well, I admit that it may seem like Lynda gets locked in pretty soon after the start of the ep - but remember that by the time Lynda gets locked in, she has been shown into the building, given documents and had them explained, she has left, and then she has returned to the vault to retrieve her 'phone. Spike has left the newsroom, met up with the others and started eating etc in this time (although it's pretty late to be entering a restaurant for many of us). >Also, mobile phones can't form connections from underground. Try it in a >big carpark one day. I'm sure I've mentioned this before - but another point is that Lynda's phone was no good to her because the mouthpiece wires were severed - this wouldn't have stopped her using the buttons to make tones - which would at least have allowed her to give yes/no answers without hanging up... >Ruth, knowing she's probably just started a major debate on the workings >of mobile phones and vault timelocks. An inspired prediction! :) Murray ___________________________________________________________________ Murray Head "The only way to atone for being occasionally muzza@omen.net.au a little overdressed is by being always http://www.omen.net.au/~muzza/ absolutely overeducated." - Oscar mhead@anhb.uwa.edu.au (Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA) Wilde -- T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not to the author of the message you're replying to. To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org" |