Discussion History Anime / SerialExperimentsLain

I think eliminating the \\\"Movie X would have been shorter if Technology Y had existed\\\" would shorten down the page. 300 would have been shorter if the Spartans were armed with machine guns, or if the Persians had landed in nuclear submarines. You could literally, with sufficient time change the plot of probably 85% of all media with technology that came along later. If cell phones had existed in Shakespearean times Romeo and Juliet would have been about two kids sexting and eventually just running off and eloping. The trope needs to be repaired, because as it is, it\\\'s just sitting back in hindsight and going \\\"well, that\\\'d be different today\\\". Yes, it would, but that doesn\\\'t qualify it as an example. Many of the examples remind me of the line from \\\'\\\'\\\'Wayne\\\'s World\\\'\\\'\\\', \\\"if a frog had wings he wouldn\\\'t bump his ass if he hopped.\\\" Well yeah, but the frog doesn\\\'t have wings, so why mention it? The Spartans in 300 didn\\\'t have machine guns. The trope itself is about underestimating future technology. Otherwise this is a trivia entry and we could add, as I said, roughly 3/4 of all media ever created. If Marcus Aurelius had been able to send a press release from his phone to the BBC about Maximus being his heir, Gladiator would have been a very different movie. Do you see how we could just keep doing this to work after work after work?