Greenenders: Armaggeddon
May. 31st, 2006 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack* Scene: Jack cycling to work in his halo of good weather.
* Shot: He passes a parked car, and the camera slows and turns to focus on it, and the screen blurs to show passage of days
* Day 1: Car
* Day 2: Front of car from wingmirror to bumper ripped off, exposing the metal like terminator
* Day 3: Car has for sale paper taped inside window[1]
* Day 4+n: For sale price decrements click click click, until the lowest digit is blurring
* Day N: The readout is too fast to see. Suddenly it slows and embarassedly reverses itself, stabalising just about $50 below zero.
* Day N+1: Paper vanishes
* Day N+2: Car rusts away
* Day 2N: Pile of wreckage. We zoom out, and Cambridge is gone, covered by radioactive ash. Mutated and dying geeks roam the landscape, making roleplaying jokes about their fate. Important landmarks have fallen over and can't get up. The river is awash with slime and pollution and bodies, with a skeletal feryman trying to propel a punt through the corpses. A stribent[2] pixie from stage left appears, asking woefully "Where's the wrestling?"
[1] A car with rip and for sale sticker is what I saw. I conjectured the sequence of events.
[2] "Stribent" = "Strides" and "Vibrant"
* Shot: He passes a parked car, and the camera slows and turns to focus on it, and the screen blurs to show passage of days
* Day 1: Car
* Day 2: Front of car from wingmirror to bumper ripped off, exposing the metal like terminator
* Day 3: Car has for sale paper taped inside window[1]
* Day 4+n: For sale price decrements click click click, until the lowest digit is blurring
* Day N: The readout is too fast to see. Suddenly it slows and embarassedly reverses itself, stabalising just about $50 below zero.
* Day N+1: Paper vanishes
* Day N+2: Car rusts away
* Day 2N: Pile of wreckage. We zoom out, and Cambridge is gone, covered by radioactive ash. Mutated and dying geeks roam the landscape, making roleplaying jokes about their fate. Important landmarks have fallen over and can't get up. The river is awash with slime and pollution and bodies, with a skeletal feryman trying to propel a punt through the corpses. A stribent[2] pixie from stage left appears, asking woefully "Where's the wrestling?"
[1] A car with rip and for sale sticker is what I saw. I conjectured the sequence of events.
[2] "Stribent" = "Strides" and "Vibrant"
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