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Jeff Rake's TV Series
Fridge Brilliance
- How long was the gap between when Flight 828 took off, disappeared, then re-appeared? 2037 days, or 5 years, 6 months, and 28 days. What about the gap between Flight 828's re-appearance and the Death Date? 2059 days, or 5 years, 7 months, and 20 days. The world waited 5 1/2 years for Flight 828 to come back while the passengers jump through time in the blink of an eye in 2013-2018, but the passengers had to wait for 5 1/2 years in 2018-2024 until they're given the opportunity to go into a new timeline where the plane touches down as expected.
Fridge Horror
- The dark lightning storms provide some Paranoia Fuel in this universe. In that at any point, during a lightning storm, you could get hit by the bolt or get in the crosshairs to the point where you're in a scenario that you should have died (Griffin with the truck, Zeke with the frostbite, and Jace and his group with the hypothermia), yet come out unscathed in the end.
- The very idea that if you are judged as a group, you all get the same verdict, regardless of if you changed for the better. Even one bad apple spoils the lot, and Pete and Kory tragically learn this lesson too late when Jace kicks the bucket first.
- The idea that all of the passengers have an expiration date is distressing enough, but in Season 4, the Death Date now extends to all of humanity, which is infinitely worse. Was the Death Date always meant for humanity, or did the omnipotent forces behind everything decide to Kill All Humans due to man's vices and negative qualities out-balancing the scales later down the line?
- While the worthy passengers are able to escape their Death Date and got a second chance, they might not be totally in the clear as eleven passengers (because they failed the test) disappeared without a trace in the authorities eyes and in a deleted scene the pilot suffers a mysterious and gruesome death right in front of them. The authorities won't let that slide and it is doubtful that the authorities will believed the truth on what really happened to them. At worst they are going to face a lot of public publicity and scrutiny, at worst someone is going to get in some legal trouble.
