{"id":1210,"date":"2004-01-20T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2004-11-01T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:28:10","slug":"fantasy-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"fantasy astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny blunder in Buffy<\/i>, episode “What’s My Line” (2:9-10). Drusilla’s ritual needs to be at new moon; but as the sun is setting, she says, “The moon is rising.” (The new moon rises and sets with<\/em> the sun.) [Later:<\/strong> In the same episode, Spike says “full moon”. So maybe I misheard elsewhen. Later still:<\/strong> I did not mishear; others have commented on the discrepancy.]<\/p>\n

In the next episode, “Ted” (2:11), we see a blackboard in Jenny Calendar’s classroom – covered with snippets of BASIC code. Perhaps her brief possession by the demon Eyghon left its mark.<\/p>\n

In “Bad Eggs” (2:12): Why does Sunnydale High have a room full of axes and hoes? Admittedly my school was small and didn’t have a lot of common hi-skool features (e.g. football), but I think I’d have learned by now if mining equipment were such a feature. — Also I’m fairly sure the word bezoar<\/i> is misused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny blunder in Buffy, episode “What’s My Line” (2:9-10). Drusilla’s ritual needs to be at new moon; but as the sun is setting, she says, “The moon is rising.” (The new moon rises and sets with the sun.) [Later: In … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}