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Someone Failed Math (Spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by Underdog_73 (770)
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If this was covered, I apologize. I only just finished episode 3 and I don't want to read through all the posts for fear of spoiling anything.

I hope I'm missing something, because this was a horrible oversight if I'm not. They stated Ennis Stussy was 82 years old when he was murdered in 2010. When they did the flashback to his time in 1975 as Thaddeus Mobley, he was clearly no older than mid-twenties. The math is off by more than 20 years. Ennis Stussy would have been around 47 in 1975. How do you screw up this badly?

Like I said, I hope I'm missing something or having a moment of "cluelessness", or I hope they explain it somehow where it makes sense. I really don't want to know anything ahead of time, but was this a major screw up, am I not seeing clearly, or will it end up being explained?

[–] AdamWaldron96-2 (178) 8 years ago

Nope, it will never be explained. https://moviechat.org/tt2802850/Fargo/5932370987e0e300114908b0/Fargo-and-Telling-Time

[–] Underdog_73 (770) 8 years ago

Thanks for the link. I'm glad I wasn't the only bothered by this.

[–] exatera (3966) 8 years ago

Yeah, I had a topic about it back then: https://moviechat.org/tt2802850/Fargo/5928f8004c5684001151fb84/hold-on-1975-would-have-been-only-35-years-ago

[–] Underdog_73 (770) 8 years ago

Thanks for the link and reply. I'm really surprised more people didn't have a problem with such a glaring error (IMO).