Re: Holy crap! Sci Fi to air CHARLIE JADE

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DJensen <i_m0nk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jun 7, 4:14 am, jayembee <jayembeenos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Daniel Damouth <damo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > I wonder if the Betaverse, in which the place is called Cape
> > > Town, is our verse.
> >
> > Yes, Beta is "us". Alpha is supposed to be about 50 years ahead
> > of Beta, technology-wise. Gamma is...well, not so much behind us,
> > but it's what we'd be if our technology had gone green early
> > enough. None of this is really mentioned in the show, but only
> > extra-textually.
> 
> IIRC, Beta is our world "30 minutes from now", Alpha is the result of
> cor****atism run amok immediately following WWII, and Gamma is kept
> green because it's so bureaucratically slow, not because of advanced
> tech. I don't recall where I read the latter two parts, perhaps on a
> recap episode, but "30 minutes from now" was part of the show's
> promotion material.
>

Huh. On Max Headroom, 20 minutes in the future looked quite different.
A lot must have happened in those aditional 10 minutes!