Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2017: episode two, the Retainer

[froodle]

Welcome back to the Eerie, Indiana 2017 rewatch. This Friday, give your dog the side-eye and pray that doorknobs will be enough to save us. Ladies and gentlemen, keep the Canine Arrest Team on speed-dial, because it's time to watch... The Retainer!

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[evilinsanemonkey]

3. What if it's like. All people from different covens trying to keep it away from each other?

4. The Sorcerer's Bible Cliffs Notes...hmmm

5. HILARIOUSLY ENOUGH I forgot about that book. NO. Mort(e) is about a war between animals and humans after ants figure out a hormone that can evolve animals to bipedal and give them the ability to talk.

7. Isn't he wearing it in Lost Hour?

[deifire]

3. Okay, I seriously want to read that fic.

4. Based on my public library experience, those and the study guides would get stolen even more than the actual Bible would.

7. I think it's just a t-shirt and the boxers in Lost Hour. It was really warm for November in Indiana that day.

[froodle]

3: ditto

4: as someone who still has stolen nutshells volumes for courses i took when i was seventeen, I support this

7: I'm sure I remember a post on the old on comm about how not Indiana the weather in Eerie is, like Mars is either underdressed for winter or should be roasting in summer. I think Eerie itself is giving itself Halloween tree/something wicked this way comes day Bradbury fall weather ALL YEAR ROUND

[deifire]

Yeah, I have given up all hope when it comes to making sense of how time and seasons work in Eerie and just kind of handwave the "when" of all canon events in fic now

[froodle]

Every now and then I'll try to plot the dates/time of the episodes but it never comes off. Meh. Eerie time.

[deifire]

I kind of go back and forth between looking up the actual weather in Indiana on an exact date and just lampshade hanging all over the place because time in Eerie is weird and errors are everywhere.

And then just making story decisions that might be supported by most of the canon details, but inevitably contradict some of them.

[froodle]

Time is canonically weird in Eerie, as is weather. There's a LOT of leeway in terms of what can be handwaved by saying "wally" "milkmen" or "creepy garbage guys".

[froodle]

3: I 100% believe in the existence of multiple super petty territorial cults in Eerie engaged in a passive aggressive library war.

6: HAH. I'm glad we were talking about different books because I was vastly confused by how much of the plot i had definitely forgotten. And no, iv e not read mrt(e) but now I kinda want to.

7: I... honestly don't remember. I am reasonably sure he's in a tee on the milk carton, but maybe the night before when Edgar send them to bed?