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*** It was a very illogical choice, really. Why not ask God to keep the evil witches from entering the town. Or ask that the people would be uncorruptable. Or, I dunno, talk to the townspeople instead of taking all of their fates into his own hands.
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*** It was a very illogical choice, really. Why not ask God to keep the evil witches from entering the town. Or ask that the people would be uncorruptable.incorruptible. Or, I dunno, talk to the townspeople instead of taking all of their fates into his own hands.
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*** No, because I'm pretty sure that Mr. Lundie said that the village would dissapear that night after the person left.
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*** No, because I'm pretty sure that Mr. Lundie said that the village would dissapear disappear that night after the person left.
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** He could become a teacher. By the standards of the rural Scottish Highlands in the 18th century he’s exceptionally well-educated.
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* And, a thought on Tommy. Exactly WHAT is he going to do the next morning (2054) when he wakes up? He has NO skills whatsoever that will make him useful in an 18th Century environment. He also has no lands or holdings. How is he going to survive?
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* And, a thought on Tommy. Exactly WHAT is he going to do the next morning (2054) (2046) when he wakes up? He has NO skills whatsoever that will make him useful in an 18th Century environment. He also has no lands or holdings. How is he going to survive?
** He'd likely as not end up working as an unskilled farmhand for one of the village's farmers. Or consider taking up an apprenticeship to a craftsman. Perhaps an apprentice carpenter or blacksmith?
** He'd likely as not end up working as an unskilled farmhand for one of the village's farmers. Or consider taking up an apprenticeship to a craftsman. Perhaps an apprentice carpenter or blacksmith?
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* Can we have a moment's consideration for poor Jeff? I mean, he's clearly drinking himself to death over losing Brigadoon, now he goes back with Tommy and not only does TOMMY get to go back to Brigadoon, but now Jeff has to go back to New York and explain why Tommy isn't with him! Somebody somewhere is going to come to the conclusion that Jeff did "something" while they were back in Scotland!
* And, a thought on Tommy. Exactly WHAT is he going to do the next morning (2054) when he wakes up? He has NO skills whatsoever that will make him useful in an 18th Century environment. He also has no lands or holdings. How is he going to survive?
* And, a thought on Tommy. Exactly WHAT is he going to do the next morning (2054) when he wakes up? He has NO skills whatsoever that will make him useful in an 18th Century environment. He also has no lands or holdings. How is he going to survive?
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* This troper is thoroughly disturbed by the whole "hundred years" thing...
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** Even if that doesn’t happen, the town is doomed. In about a year and a half it’ll be covered in an ice sheet more than a mile thick.
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*** As it stands, 1 year on from the miracle being enacted, the residents of Brigadoon will awaken to a new day...on May 22, AD 38,246. By then, there'll be a really good chance that the rest of the people in the world will either be a) long dead, or b) long gone to another world. And that's if Brigadoon even survives one day in each century if the world was devastated by global war (reappearing and getting radiation poisoning, perhaps). A decade instead of a century would see Brigadoon reaching the year 5396AD in a year, and a year per day would've seen them reaching the much more realistic (and likely more survivable) year 2111 after one year from the miracle.
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* Couldn't ten years instead of 100 have sufficed? I agree with other tropers who are noting that they'll likely reach apocalyptic conditions within a couple weeks. When you think about you're more doomed for being in brigadoon under Mr. Forsythe's blessing than outside of it. The odds of finding yourself in the middle of a nuclear war, nuclear winter, or poisoned atmosphere every day you wake up are so much stronger and since Gene Kelly's character has seen how fast technology could change with nuclear weapons having been developed he should be aware of this.
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* Couldn't ten years instead of 100 have sufficed? I agree with other tropers who are noting that they'll likely reach apocalyptic conditions within a couple weeks. When you think about you're more doomed for being in brigadoon Brigadoon under Mr. Forsythe's blessing than outside of it. The odds of finding yourself in the middle of a nuclear war, nuclear winter, or poisoned atmosphere every day you wake up are so much stronger and since Gene Kelly's character has seen how fast technology could change with nuclear weapons having been developed he should be aware of this.
** Even once a year would probably have done the trick. 200 years passing in the outside world would still be less than a year in Brigadoon time.
** Even once a year would probably have done the trick. 200 years passing in the outside world would still be less than a year in Brigadoon time.
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** Maybe not everyone understands it as well as Mr. Lundie. Also, maybe he's the town elder and it's his role to tell the story.
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* Couldn't ten years instead of 100 have sufficed? I agree with other tropers who are noting that they'll likely reach apocalyptic conditions within a couple weeks. When you think about you're more doomed for being in brigadoon under Mr. Forsythe's blessing than outside of it. The odds of finding yourself in the middle of a nuclear war, nuclear winter, or poisoned atmosphere every day you wake up are so much stronger and since Gene Kelly's character has seen how fast technology could change with nuclear weapons having been developed he should be aware of this.
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** Well, it's only been a few days in Brigadoon-time, so they're still figuring it all out.
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I think the village is set in Scotland, look at the kilts
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I think the village is set in Scotland, everyone
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* Even more time nitpicking: In a Brigadoon week starting from Miracle Day, it'll be 2446. In three Brigadoon weeks it'll be 3846! Won't things have, ah...drastically changed when they return every century? Will the green hills of Ireland return, or will Brigadoon land on the future apocalypse-nuked lands and wonder what the heck has gone on?
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* Even more time nitpicking: In a Brigadoon week starting from Miracle Day, it'll be 2446. In three Brigadoon weeks it'll be 3846! Won't things have, ah...drastically changed when they return every century? Will the green hills of Ireland Scotland return, or will Brigadoon land on the future apocalypse-nuked lands and wonder what the heck has gone on?
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*** This is not unlike the premise of ''Population436'', tho that town doesn't disappear; it's just been ignored for about the last hundred years.
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** Maybe the line changes pseudo-randomly depending on the surrounding terrain.
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* If the Miracle happened less than a week ago for everyone in Brigadoon, why is Mr. Lundie the only one with the whole story?
* Everyone has to be reminded of the boundaries of Brigadoon every morning? Surely something like that is common knowledge, and parents would take special care not to let their kids wander too far in the direction of the invisible line.
* So how big is the area spirited away every night? Does it just include the farms of everyone who lives in the town proper, or (more likely) the farms of everyone who belonged to Mr. Forsythe's congregation?
* Everyone has to be reminded of the boundaries of Brigadoon every morning? Surely something like that is common knowledge, and parents would take special care not to let their kids wander too far in the direction of the invisible line.
* So how big is the area spirited away every night? Does it just include the farms of everyone who lives in the town proper, or (more likely) the farms of everyone who belonged to Mr. Forsythe's congregation?
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