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* NotNowKiddo: Subverted. Dinah hears the Langoliers coming before everybody else, but she thinks that grownups don't believe children, especially blind girls. However, they believe her pretty fast. They even muse that as she's blind, she probably has really good hearing.
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* NotNowKiddo: Subverted. Dinah hears the Langoliers coming before everybody else, but she thinks that the rest of the group won't listen to her because grownups don't believe children, especially blind girls. However, they believe her pretty fast. They even muse that as she's blind, she probably has really good hearing.
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* ExpositionIntuition: The AuthorAvatar character manages to completely guess everything that's happening with perfect accuracy.
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* ExpositionIntuition: The AuthorAvatar character character, played by Dean Stockwell, manages to completely guess everything that's ''guess'' exactly what's happening just by a deserted airport with perfect accuracy.stale food. Oh, did we mention this guessing includes that they've traveled into the past by going through a circular rainbow, that traveling into the past melts everyone who's not asleep, and that as soon as a time period becomes the past it's devoured by a swarm of temporal monsters? And that they can use the bit of time-space inside their jet to fly back through the circular rainbow to get back to the future? And '''it works'''.
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* PercussiveMaintenance: Captain Engle does this to the radio in the plane when he can't reach anyone else. Of course it doesn't work, given the circumstances, but it's the thought that counts.
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Adapted into a two-part 1995 MiniSeries on Creator/{{ABC}}, directed by Tom Holland (''Film/{{Fright Night|1985}}'', ''Film/ChildsPlay'') and starring Kate Maberly, Kimber Riddle, Patricia Wettig, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Frankie Faison, Baxter Harris, Creator/DeanStockwell, David Morse, Christopher Collet, and Bronson Pinchot.
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Adapted into a two-part 1995 MiniSeries on Creator/{{ABC}}, directed by Tom Holland (''Film/{{Fright Night|1985}}'', ''Film/ChildsPlay'') (the one of ''Film/{{Fright Night|1985}}'' and ''Film/ChildsPlay'' fame, not [[Creator/TomHolland the one of MCU Spider-Man fame]]) and starring Kate Maberly, Kimber Riddle, Patricia Wettig, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Frankie Faison, Baxter Harris, Creator/DeanStockwell, David Morse, Christopher Collet, and Bronson Pinchot.
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** Unlike many examples of this trope, there were very good reasons for the flight to divert to Bangor, as Brian, a professional pilot and familiar with the airports in question explains to his passengers (and thus the reader).
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** Unlike many examples of this trope, there were very good reasons for the flight to divert to Bangor, as Brian, a professional pilot and familiar with the airports in question question, explains to his passengers (and thus the reader).reader). Also, Toomey was breaking down before even boarding Flight 29. There would have been ''something'' that set him off regardless.
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''"[[MemeticMutation SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!]]"''
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''"[[MemeticMutation SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!]]"''
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* RecycledInSpace: This miniseries is essentially "[[/Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E54TheOdysseyOfFlight33 The Odyssey of Flight 33]]" under a Stephen King filter (which emphasises the TimeyWimeyBall nature of the whole ordeal).
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* RecycledInSpace: This miniseries is essentially "[[/Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E54TheOdysseyOfFlight33 "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E54TheOdysseyOfFlight33 The Odyssey of Flight 33]]" under a Stephen King filter (which emphasises the TimeyWimeyBall nature of the whole ordeal).
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* RecycledInSpace: This miniseries is essentially "[[Series/TheTwilightZone The Odyssey of Flight 33]]" under a Stephen King filter (which emphasises the TimeyWimeyBall nature of the whole ordeal).
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* RecycledInSpace: This miniseries is essentially "[[Series/TheTwilightZone "[[/Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E54TheOdysseyOfFlight33 The Odyssey of Flight 33]]" under a Stephen King filter (which emphasises the TimeyWimeyBall nature of the whole ordeal).
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* ShoutOut: Many, including prominent ones to Literature/TheLordOfTheRings and Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.
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* ShoutOut: Many, including prominent ones to Literature/TheLordOfTheRings ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the novella, Albert forgets to bring his violin back on board the plane, thus letting it get eaten. In the miniseries, Laurel brings it back on board for him, but then he leaves it on the plane when they get back to Los Angeles.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the novella, Albert forgets to bring his violin back on board the plane, thus letting it get eaten. In the miniseries, Laurel brings it back on board for him, but then he leaves it on the plane when they get back to Los Angeles.UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: The story appears to be this in the grand scheme of Stephen King's multiverse. Not only is it devoid of any references to his other works, but the rules it establishes regarding time travel are irrefutably contradicted by [[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree 11/22/63]], a story that has much more direct ties to his other works.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: The story appears to be this in the grand scheme of Stephen King's multiverse. Not only is it devoid of any references to his other works, but the rules it establishes regarding time travel are irrefutably contradicted by [[Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree 11/22/63]], ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'', a story that has much more direct ties to his other works.
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* BlindSeer: Dinah, who was on her way to have surgery to correct her blindness, is the first to hear Something Horrible approaching, and also uses psychic powers to divert a psychotic passenger into their path.
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Dinah, after Toomy stabs her in the chest with a butcher knife.]] Justified in that the knife has punctured a lung, at least in the book.
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Dinah, after Toomy stabs her in the chest with a butcher knife.]] Justified in that the knife has punctured a lung, at least in the book.
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* BlindSeer: Dinah, who was on her way to have surgery to correct her blindness, is the first to hear Something Horrible approaching, and also uses psychic powers PsychicPowers to divert a psychotic passenger into their path.
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Dinah, after Toomy stabs her in the chest with a butcher knife.]]Justified JustifiedTrope in that the knife has punctured a lung, at least in the book.
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Dinah, after Toomy stabs her in the chest with a butcher knife.]]
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* TheBGrade: Part of Toomy's FreudianExcuse for flipping out over not landing in Boston as planned is the relentless pressure to succeed that shaped his childhood. His father scolded him if he got an A-, and grounded him for a week if he got a B. In the film, we see his father in a flashback roaring at him about his grade: "'B'! 'B' IS FOR ''BUM!'' DO YOU WANT TO SWEEP THE STREETS?"
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* TheBGrade: Part of Toomy's FreudianExcuse for flipping out over not landing in Boston UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} as planned is the relentless pressure to succeed that shaped his childhood. His father scolded him if he got an A-, and grounded him for a week if he got a B. In the film, we see his father in a flashback roaring at him about his grade: "'B'! 'B' IS FOR ''BUM!'' DO YOU WANT TO SWEEP THE STREETS?"
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''The Langoliers'' is a novella by Creator/StephenKing, published in the anthology ''Four Past Midnight'' in 1990. It tells the tale of a handful of passengers on a cross-country redeye flight who wake to discover that the flight crew and most of their fellow passengers have vanished. They are unable to contact ground control, and they see only darkness below them. After making an emergency landing in Bangor, they soon discover the chilling truth, and must find a way to escape the approaching sounds that may spell their doom while dealing with one of their fellow passengers, who is having a psychotic breakdown.
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''The Langoliers'' is a novella by Creator/StephenKing, published in the anthology ''Four Past Midnight'' ''Literature/FourPastMidnight'' in 1990. It tells the tale of a handful of passengers on a cross-country redeye flight who wake to discover that the flight crew and most of their fellow passengers have vanished. They are unable to contact ground control, and they see only darkness below them. After making an emergency landing in Bangor, they soon discover the chilling truth, and must find a way to escape the approaching sounds that may spell their doom while dealing with one of their fellow passengers, who is having a psychotic breakdown.
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* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: Each chapter is headed by sentences describing that chapter's highlights.
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* ActorAllusion: Few people are better qualified to [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E80AQualityOfMercy exposit about]] [[Series/QuantumLeap time travel]] than Creator/DeanStockwell.
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* ShoutOut: Many, including prominent ones to Literature/LordOfTheRings and Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the novella, Albert forgets to bring his violin back on board the plane, this letting it get eaten. In the miniseries, Laurel brings it back on board for him, but then he leaves it on the plane when they get back to Los Angeles.
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Imagine waking up on a plane and discovering that it, along with some of its passengers, had traveled... somewhere else. A place with no other people, no other living things, a place where sounds are dulled, there are no odors, nothing seems to work, and even time seems to be winding down. And you don't know if you'll be able to get home. Welcome to the past. The cleanup crew will be here soon. Pray you aren't here when they arrive....
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Imagine waking up on a plane and discovering that it, along with some of its passengers, had traveled... somewhere else. A place with no other people, no other living things, a place where sounds are dulled, there are no odors, nothing seems to work, and even time seems to be winding down. And you don't know if you'll be able to get home. Welcome to the past. The cleanup crew will be here soon. Pray you aren't here when they arrive....
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Without the benefit of a third-person omniscient narrator, the film can't do a very good job of describing the interplay between Dinah and Toomy or the nature of the langoliers, and the resulting story makes a lot less sense than its source material.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Without the benefit of a third-person omniscient narrator, the film can't do a very good job of describing the interplay between Dinah and Toomy or the nature of the langoliers, Langoliers, and the resulting story makes a lot less sense than its source material.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Toomy. [[spoiler:His death is just tragic and terrifying, made even more tragic that the moment he got on that plane, (or, perhaps the moment he was forced into the job by his father's demands, or one could argue the moment ''he was born'') he was doomed. Even though Toomy stabbed her, Dinah still feels pity for him when she sends him to his death.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: Toomy. [[spoiler:His death is just tragic and terrifying, made even more tragic that the moment he got on that plane, plane (or, perhaps the moment he was forced into the job by his father's demands, or one could argue the moment ''he was born'') born''), he was doomed. Even though Toomy stabbed her, Dinah still feels pity for him when she sends him to his death.]]
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted in the TV movie. LAX and Bangor International appear as themselves.
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* GenreSavvy: {{Discussed}}. As a mystery writer, Bob Jenkins provides a plausible analysis to Albert to explain how they all ended up on a seemingly abandoned plane in mid-flight by pitching a conspiracy scenario about a black ops social experiment. When Albert suggests that they take over the plane, Jenkins admits out that his scenario can only explain the state of the ''plane''; he can't think of any way an outside agency could suppress any sign of life on the ''ground,'' which should be covered in electric lights visible through any possible cloud cover. The fact that the entire ''world'' can be demonstrated to be out of whack takes things [[HowUnscientific beyond the pale]], meaning [[GivingUpOnLogic rational deduction is meaningless]];
-->'''Jenkins''': I'm the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong person to ask]], I'm afraid. It's too bad Creator/LarryNiven or Creator/JohnVarley isn't on board."\\
'''Albert''': Who are those guys?\\
'''Jenkins''': Science-fiction writers.
-->'''Jenkins''': I'm the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong person to ask]], I'm afraid. It's too bad Creator/LarryNiven or Creator/JohnVarley isn't on board."\\
'''Albert''': Who are those guys?\\
'''Jenkins''': Science-fiction writers.
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** {{Discussed}}. As a mystery writer, Bob Jenkins provides a plausible analysis to Albert to explain how they all ended up on a seemingly abandoned plane in mid-flight by pitching a conspiracy scenario about a black ops social experiment. When Albert suggests that they take over the plane, Jenkins admits out that his scenario can only explain the state of the ''plane''; he can't think of any way an outside agency could suppress any sign of life on the ''ground,'' which should be covered in electric lights visible through any possible cloud cover. The fact that the entire ''world'' can be demonstrated to be out of whack takes things [[HowUnscientific beyond the pale]], meaning [[GivingUpOnLogic rational deduction is meaningless]];
-->'''Jenkins''': --->'''Jenkins:''' I'm the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong person to ask]], I'm afraid. It's too bad Creator/LarryNiven or Creator/JohnVarley isn't on board."\\
'''Albert''': '''Albert:''' Who are those guys?\\
'''Jenkins''': '''Jenkins:''' Science-fiction writers.
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-->'''Toomy:''' I didn't make any money for you! I didn't MAKE ANY MONEY FOR YOU!! I LOOOOOST MONEY FOR YOU!!! I LOOOOOOOOST MONEY FOR YOU! I LOST 43 MILLION DOLLARS, AND I DID IT DELIBERATELY! I DID IT DELIBERATELY! I DID IT DELIBERATELY! [[EvilLaugh EEYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]
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* TragicVillain: Toomy, oh so very much.
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