History Headscratchers / GalaxyExpress999

*** It's early, so I forget the episode number specifically, but it's the first episode with Antares. Antares robs a car connected to the car Maetel and Tetsuo are in, which seemed decently occupied. I guess the two tend to sit in the more empty cars.

*** Vile degenerate thuggery!! (Rebellion of C62, The Gimme Planet)

* Where are the other passengers? Tetsuo and Maetel seem to have the 999 all to themselves.

*** ALso, it's quite possible that the premise is true now, but hasn't always been true. Most of the planets we see don't seem to have thriving economies.

* What exactly is the Conductor?

*** It's because he's a jerk but just let him alone; work out unresolved feelings of rejection by mass-murdering thousands of innocent strangers instead (Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity)

* Anvils dropping in opposite directions

** Banditry is

** If your lover jilts you

* How did Matsumoto manage to write Masspron as a parody of modern industrial China nearly 15 years before Deng Xiaoping's "southern tour" created it?

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''[[{{TheSixthSense}} Sixth Sense]]'' reveal with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it just gets tossed out with a few cursory words in the middle of an {{Infodump}} and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that even fricking ''ghosts'' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* At the end of episode 63, Miru is shot by Lelan as she reaches for the artificial sun's kill-switch, then after Maetel's tongue-lashing [[{{VillainousBSOD}} sends Lelan reeling]], Lelan bolts outside and is killed by the daylight. So now that Lelan is dead, and Maetel and Tetsuro know where the kill-switch is...''why don't they pull the kill-switch and save 99.9% of the population from a horrible, screaming death?!''

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''[[{{TheSixthSense}} Sixth Sense]]'' reveal with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it just gets tossed off with a few cursory words in the middle of an {{Infodump}} and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that even fricking ''ghosts'' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* How did Matsumoto manage to write Masspron as a parody of modern industrial China nearly 15 years before Deng Xioping's "southern tour" created it?

* How did Matsumoto manage to write Masspron as a parody of modern industrial China writing 15 years before Deng Xioping's "southern tour" created it?

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''[[{{TheSixthSense}} Sixth Sense]]'' reveal with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it just gets tossed off with a few cursory words in the middle of an {{Infodump}} and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that even fricking ''ghosts'' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''[[{{TheSixthSense}} Sixth Sense]]'' reveal with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it just gets tossed off with a few cursory words in the middle of an {{Infodump}} and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that fricking ''ghosts' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''[[{{TheSixthSense}} SixthSense]]'' reveal with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it just gets tossed off with a few cursory words in the middle of an {{Infodump}} and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that fricking ''ghosts' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''SixthSense'' reveal with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it gets tossed off in a few cursory words in the middle of an [[{{MrExpostion}} ExpositionDump]] and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that fricking ''ghosts' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* The Filament episode incorporated an interesting idea that I'd long thought would make a good SF story (basically a ''SixthSenseReveal'', but with an entire ''planet'' of beings that don't realise that they are ghosts courtesy of some sudden cosmic catastrophe) but it gets tossed off in a few cursory words in the middle of an ExpositionDump and is never mentioned again. I wish they had expanded on this rather than just done yet another Testsuro-held-hostage story. Still, you have to love that fricking ''ghosts' get taken in by the Machine Empire's [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} propaganda]].

* The woman on the butterfly-people planet asks her lover why their race doesn't venture to other worlds; he answers that their life-spans are much too short to survive the journey to even the nearest of them. She objects that this is not a good reason...but...erm...it kind of ''is''.

* Are the brains of machine-humans electronic or biological? It's very strongly hinted that they have human brains, but on the few occasions we get to see a machine-human's brain it appears to be a smallish boxy wifi-router-looking doodad that couldn't possibly be big enough to house a human brain. But if they have electronic brains, how does that square with the episodes where a computer the size of a tennis court is needed to host a human consciousness that still [[{{CameBackWrong}} comes back wrong]] anyway?

* The logic of the story requires that a pass for the 999 cost less than the going rate for getting mechanized. So why do machine-humans seem to greatly outnumber people who can afford passes?

* Every non-JerkAss machine-human dies in the same episode s/he is introduced, except for [[spoiler: Spiral]], who despite putting a brave face on it ends up in a situation that verges on a FateWorseThanDeath.

* At the end of episode 63, Miru is shot by Lelan as she reaches for the artificial sun's kill-switch, then after Maetel's tongue-lashing [[{{VillainousBSOD}} sends Lelan reeling]], Lelan bolts outside and is killed by the daylight. So now that Lelan is dead, and Maetel and Tetsuro know where the kill-switch is...WHY DON'T THEY PULL THE KILL-SWITCH AND SAVE 99.9% OF THE POPULATION FROM A HORRIBLE, SCREAMING DEATH?!

* Episode 29 has a woman state that although she doesn't have a pass, the Galaxy Express will take someone who's a refugee, since she crashed on the planet. This should have affected an awful lot of other plots, including the previous episode, which had a man stranded on a planet. The episode is also a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop about [[spoiler:staying with an abusive boyfriend]].