Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat!
To   : alt.tv.er
From : Dropping The Helicopter
Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 02:14:00

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

npardue@indiana.edu wrote:
> Sharon wrote:
>>> OK, but that still doesn't explain why they would have been doing
>>> that.  If they wanted to get from Chicago to Colorado in the shortest
>>> amount of time, they should have been on an interstate.  And I-80,
>>> which goes from Chicago to at least Reno, IS a 4-lane interstate (two
>>> lanes each way), and looked nothing like that.
>> They weren't going from Chicago to Colorado. The first part of the trip was
>> to the first hospital in a small town in I think Iowa.??
> 
> Davenport.  Not exactly a small town. (Part of the quad cities, which
> straddle the Iowa/Illinois border.)
> 
> [And Naomi whips out her road atlas.]
> 
> Canon City is a real place. It's just west of Pueblo, in south central
> Colorado. To get there they would have had to, at some point. leave the
> interstate.  You could get there almost entirely via interstate by
> taking I80 to Denver, and then I25 south to Pueblo. However, it's a bit
> more direct (if not quite as fast probably) to swing south in western
> Nebraska and pick up I70 in Kansas. (Which would then run them into
> Colorado Springs.) WHich may have been what they did.  They talked
> about returning to North Platte after the accident, so maybe they were
> on US83 which runs south from North Platte to Colby, KS, where it joins
> I70. Alternatively, US30 runs parallel to I80 through much of Nebraska.
> Maybe, for some reason, (road construction?) they decided to take US30
> rather than the interstate.
> Naomi
> 
>> Other than that, it *is* a tv show which tends to take dramatic license.
>>
>> -Sharon
> 

Ah, guys, you've spent approximately 10,000x more thinking on this than 
the writers did.  Here's how it went down:

Writer one: "Chicago..."
Writer two: "um... Colorado..."
PTB: "You chimpanzees get to work!  Nobody cares about your 'stories' or 
your 'accuracy' or your 'quality'!!!"
Writer one: "Dahhhhh... road?"
Writer two: "Road!  Road road road!!!"

Seriously, that's an actual transcript.

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