MD Thoughts
Aug. 14th, 2011 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay. Here's a thought. It's probably not a new thought at all, but...it exists.
No one can die. Unless they're burned. I'm going to go with burning actually working for now, until proven otherwise. If I missed a line of dialogue somewhere that contradicts this, let me know.
So. Let's say Jack was incinerated. Instantly. Completely. How does he come back from that? I mean, of course, prior to the Miracle. And I know he's been exploded and came back from that, but burnt to nothing but ash? That isn't regenerating cells, as there is no point to start from. Just...ash.
Also, if Owen had really wanted to die...couldn't they have incinerated him? It'd work the same way, I imagine.
I'm going to go...stop being morbid now.
No one can die. Unless they're burned. I'm going to go with burning actually working for now, until proven otherwise. If I missed a line of dialogue somewhere that contradicts this, let me know.
So. Let's say Jack was incinerated. Instantly. Completely. How does he come back from that? I mean, of course, prior to the Miracle. And I know he's been exploded and came back from that, but burnt to nothing but ash? That isn't regenerating cells, as there is no point to start from. Just...ash.
Also, if Owen had really wanted to die...couldn't they have incinerated him? It'd work the same way, I imagine.
I'm going to go...stop being morbid now.
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Date: 2011-08-15 05:56 pm (UTC)(Sentient ash could lead into that Little Shop of Horrors crossover I've been waiting for!!!)
We're used to thinking of burnt=dead and gone, so it's hard to think of anyone being alive or able to come back from that. That makes perfect sense! Which is why it seems the show is using burning as the only way to kill people now. But if their WHOLE PREMISE is that death is now impossible, changing the laws of science, even burning people shouldn't be able to get past that. Dude had no neck and he blinked. Ash should be sentient in that sort of crazy world.
(I like to think Owen has been watching the news over people's shoulders and is mentally shouting at Gwen and Jack to GET ON THAT. "In my day, cases like these would take us a day! It was so quick, it felt like 45 minutes!")
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Date: 2011-08-16 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-16 03:29 pm (UTC)