You are just too literal
Oct. 2nd, 2009 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2I was explaining the premise of The 4400 to a friend (who admittedly doesn't get out much!) today and explained it this way:
"4400 people who have vanished over the last 50 or 60 years all reappear on Earth at the same time and in the same place. Then they find that-"
He(puzzled):That wouldn't work.
Me: How so?
Him: A column of 44000 people standing on each other's shoulders would just be silly, let alone a biological impossibility!
Me: Huh?
Him (meaningfully): 4400 people, same place .....
Me: Not exactly the same
Him: Then it's different if it's not the same
Me: You're not really going to let this go are you ......
"4400 people who have vanished over the last 50 or 60 years all reappear on Earth at the same time and in the same place. Then they find that-"
He(puzzled):That wouldn't work.
Me: How so?
Him: A column of 44000 people standing on each other's shoulders would just be silly, let alone a biological impossibility!
Me: Huh?
Him (meaningfully): 4400 people, same place .....
Me: Not exactly the same
Him: Then it's different if it's not the same
Me: You're not really going to let this go are you ......
