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Earth jumping bums in the building

posted 9 years ago by Hogkilla
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After watching this I kept think about why are there so many other people not transported in and out of this building? When they first got to the building they just walked right in. No locks, boards nothing. Why would there not be bums or crack heads running throughout the empty building? Maybe this would be answered down in later episodes as a TV show, but I found it funny that this big giant building in a prime real estate locatioin was vacant from everyone and anything. You would think Someone from one of these different Earth's would be turning that building into hotel, strip club or just adding a Starbucks to the lobby. So if this is turned into a show they really need to explain the big empty building that no one can lease space into downtown.

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[–] ats02171 9 years ago

You're right, since you don't have to be in the room with the flashing lights. Since the building is huge, you would think that there could be a small village in the building.

[–] robhax111 8 years ago

Who's to say a bunch of bums haven't ventured to other worlds? No reason to talk about it... maybe it would've been touched on in a future episode.

[–] mobocracy 8 years ago

There's obviously no good answer, but I would suppose that the building has some kind of aura that keeps people out of it and/or causes them to just not think about it.

It raises a lot of questions about how a building can just sit empty in many parallel universes where the city around it is active and vibrant, or worse, where the city is small and poorly developed but a huge building stands in it.

The pilot/movie didn't show it, but I think they should have had the building have a kind of visual field surrounding it that caused it to appear to "fit in" to whatever was around it, so it would always look like it fit in with whatever was around it from an appearance perspective (condition, design, size, etc), even if the actual interior/structure was constant across parallel universes.

So much about this pilot was intriguing and left a lot that could have been developed in a series, it's a shame this never went anywhere.