Misinformation!!

[wily-one24.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll stop spamming the comm after this post.

But this amused me. Mary Margaret is teaching the kids things that are... not *technically* correct.



While there are technically eight planets now, it seems Miss Mary Margaret Blanchard is on Team Pluto.



It's called a "dwarf planet" now, Miss Blanchard. Along with Cerus and that other one with the name that is all letters and numbers.



This furthers my belief that Storybrooke exists in its own reality/timeline outside that of our current Earth one. Where they're stuck in some retro 50s/60s/70s warp.

Comments

[lovedbyahero.livejournal.com]

Actually, Pluto is still being taught as a planet like the others in many schools. Goes to show that school education isn't really all it's cracked up to be xD

[wily-one24.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. ;)

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

Are they really?? I can't decide whether I'm happy (Pluto's a planet damnit!) or sad (actual facts>feelings) about that...

[sparkythegeek.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty funny. :)

[litlover12.livejournal.com]

Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up.

[/Gus from "Psych"]

[jadestrick.livejournal.com]

This post makes me feel old. :D Pluto was a planet for twenty-five years of my thirty-year-old life. Still is IMO.

[katiemariie.livejournal.com]

Mary Margaret's too nice to demote Pluto like that.

[a-lot-of-heart.livejournal.com]

LOL - you're really thorough with your tv shows, mhm? I never noticed that!

[wily-one24.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm a casual observer... but then sometimes something snaps and I become more invested.

That snap happened after "Hat Trick" and I've been rewatching. This jumped out at me. I tend to notice background stuff a lot (you'd be very surprised at all the in-jokes some shows have... posters on the wall behind students, pictures in frames... they're like easter eggs for the observant).

[a-lot-of-heart.livejournal.com]

I really have to watch out for such things more. I never notice, unless somebody tells me that something was in the episode.

[missbreese.livejournal.com]

hahaha! ILU!

[nikki4noo.livejournal.com]

Storybrooke is stuck in a time warp. From the early 80's.

Time stood still since they all arrived, which was shortly after Emma's birth. The kids did age, but no one else did.

Look at the toys that Henry has in his room, he has some robot toys that are from that era, as well as a lot of others. Nothing new.

Similar thing with cars etc. Back in the 80's Pluto was still a planet.

[wily-one24.livejournal.com]

Most of the kids don't age, in fact Henry is the only one who does. Hansel and Gretel stayed the same, as did Grace/Paige.

But yes, you are absolutely right. Early 80s.

Although, that does beg the question of their cell phones (all of which are out of date, mid to late 90s, except for Emma's).

Henry's toys make sense, though I didn't particularly take note of it. Most "new" or up to date toys are branded heavily, and tv does tend to stay away from randing kids toys as much as possible in the sense of having to pay for rights unnecessarily for a throw away seen, unless it's important to the plot. I just figured it was that in play.