It's About Time - or - I have wasted my brain

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More thoughts on My Mother the Quantum Fugitive Route 66 Ghost Car:

Add Quantum leap: say the lead falls asleep in the car in a diner in Amarillo and a spirit talks control of the car and drives to a house in OK City. The guy wakes up there and has to figure out why the soul came there while at the same time not appearing like a lunatic for parking in a stranger’s driveway.

You can keep the mysterious benefactor story as a season long arc. Not every episode has parts of it. There are two ideas for what the benefactor wants:

  1. he wants the car to bring his dead mother back. He figures he can use it to bring her back, either just in the car, or maybe into a body after he kills the current owner.

  2. He is a true necromancer. He has plans of world dominance, and he needs the souls of the dead to power his infernal machinery. When he gets hold of the soul magnet car, he plans on putting it near areas of large deaths - like mass shootings, tsunamis, plane crashes, that sort of thing, so the car vacuums up all the souls. To these ends, he plans on committing acts of terrorism like 9/11 and sabotaging planes so they crash near the car. (He believes that was what Hitler was really doing with the death camps - trying to use magic to summon the ancient Norse gods. But this guy thinks he can make it work.)

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I didn’t at first. It was unintentional, but sometimes I do get lucky.

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Without a doubt, it is the movie Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.

I just posted my exasperation about this film in another thread. I sincerely hope there is something obvious that I have missed or do not understand because IMO, Steve Martin has created some of the most fabulous acting scenes (like in the movie, “All of Me”). But on the other hand, I just cannot imagine how the film, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” can even be considered to be a serious project or worth the time it took to create it.

I must be misunderstanding something about this film because it seems so clear to me that it was conceived and created by some people who just did not understand anything about making films. And yet, I know that Carl Reiner and Steve Martin have clearly displayed great talent in the creation of films and TV shows. So … I just don’t get it. How can anyone consider Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid to be a serious attempt at a Hollywood film?

I just can’t say enough terrible things about Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. It just seems to me to be complete lunacy and a huge waste of time and money.

Were these people suffering from a form of Temporary Insanity when they produced Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid?

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You need to be familiar with the webcomic “Goblins” to get this joke, but what you’ve described would need to be called “My Mother the Kore.”