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johnnye

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02:24:30 PM Apr 28th 2010

Does it Just Bug anyone else that "Twenty Minutes Into The Future" is further away than "Next Sunday AD"? What's even more annoying is that it somehow seems better that way...

AnonymousMcCartneyfan

02:38:44 PM Apr 28th 2010
edited by AnonymousMcCartneyfan

It's convention. "Twenty minutes into the future" likely first came into consciousness through discussions of sci-fi works that are set in the near-future, but far enough that their society still seems unmistakably different from our own. Next Sunday AD has an exact Trope Namer, Mystery Science Theater 3000; since all the futuristic stuff in there is "explained" by the MST 3 K Mantra, that show feels like our own time most seasons.

girlyboy

04:31:12 PM Nov 9th 2010

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is actually not an example of this trope, as the trope description itself states.

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174.23.38.35

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12:57:39 PM Nov 9th 2010

New to the Wiki. Nevertheless, there is another example of this Trope: the Torg Roleplaying Game. Not only was it set in the Near Now (which meant the exact same thing as Next Sunday AD), advertisements for the game mentioned this explicitly:

"Later today, early tomorrow, sometime next week… The world began to end."

This is probably the most famous quote from the game.

So, can anyone help me add this to the Wiki?

girlyboy

04:30:01 PM Nov 9th 2010

I am not familiar with the work. It is not difficult to sign up with the Wiki, and then you could easily add the example yourself by editing the page — that's what Wikis are all about after all, everyone contributing whatever content they can.

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