New to tumblr, really only lurking on a few blogs, but in catching up on season 3 of Fringe I ran into the sixth episode “6955 kHz” and boy is it a gem. It makes me so mad that these people writing “Fringe” rarely pull off any believable Fringe science scenario, but this one is truly awful. So awful, that it’s forced me to get a tumblr account so I could rant about it to the world and/or no one at all.
How could the First People be millions of years old? Please! Clearly the writers don’t know a thing about anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, or any other ology for that matter. The first primates did not even appear until the dinosaurs were extinct! Unless the theory of evolution is incorrect, and it’s not (and, just one more time in parentheses for good measure, IT’S NOT), there’s just not even a chance that some “First People” could pre-exist dinosaurs. Furthermore, how could the First People know and speak a bunch of modern languages (and precisely ZERO unknown to us today – there were no breaks in the code), use Arabic numerals, and have precisely the same latitude and longitude system as us! They even centered it on Greenwich, England just like the Royal Observatory (founded 1675) did!
Modern humans have been around for only 50-100 thousand years, but we hardly know anything accept what a few tools and a couple campsites looked like until about 10 thousand years ago. And no campsites once you go 30,000 years back. So my big problem is, why in the world would you not just say that it’s a civilization that is 42,000 years old instead of 420,000,000?!?!?! In real life actual history, it took only 10,000 years to get from the advent of agriculture to, I don’t know, internet on phones? Laser beams? Really excellent picture clarity on television screens? So, let’s be generous and let our fake science fiction people go an itty bitty bit faster, you can put in some part of the world that has since gone under water (more ice back then meant lower sea level). You could call it Atlantis even! Oh my god, show, you suck.
