Kathryn VanArendonk
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And sometimes you're like, I'm just going to be honest.
I don't think you actually care about this at all.
And you are just sort of
throwing surprises in here so that I go, what?
But that's okay, I think.
Right.
Yeah.
One of my enduring favorite things about, and this is also in the books, but they introduce this thing where you have to have gemstones to travel.
And I, in the beginning, thought that this was going to be something where it was like, okay, so they can't actually, because otherwise you're just going to have people hopping back through the stones all the time.
Yes.
So it's essentially a rate limiting effect on how much time travel you can have.
This made total sense to me, except that whenever anyone needs to go anywhere, they just magically have gemstones in their pocket all the time.
They're just stumbling over diamonds left and right so that they can just pop back and forth every time your grandkid has a heart defect.
TV has lost this opportunity.
So much TV has lost this.
For sure.
And I want to say that as I am sort of complaining about silly shit on this show, I love that stuff.
I love to complain about it.
I love to be like, Claire invented ether and then got addicted to ether.
But, you know, there is...