Post by Tim on Jun 13, 2020 17:11:58 GMT -5
Anyone heard of this movie. I watched it many years ago, because the premise sounded interesting, the Vanishing Village.
In 1954, two hunters, in Scotland, come across the titular village, Brigadoon, which seems to be time locked in the 1700's.
The reason was that In the 1700's, the area was plagued with witches. Because of this, Mr. Forsythe, old minister of the village of Brigadoon, went out early one morning to petition God for a miracle to protect their village. From then on, the village and its people vanished to the outside world, reappearing only for one day every hundred years.
Yes, one day in Brigadoon is one hundred years for the rest of the world.
A TV Troper pointed out the problem here:
In a Brigadoon week starting from Miracle Day, it'll be 2446. In three Brigadoon weeks it'll be 3846! Won't things have, ah...drastically changed when they return every century? Will the green hills of Scotland return, or will Brigadoon land on the future apocalypse-nuked lands and wonder what the heck has gone on?
Or if someone builds a city over it. Would they end up popping into whatever buildings were built over it?
Even if that doesn’t happen, the town is doomed. In about a year and a half it’ll be covered in an ice sheet more than a mile thick.
Or if someone builds a city over it. Would they end up popping into whatever buildings were built over it?
Even if that doesn’t happen, the town is doomed. In about a year and a half it’ll be covered in an ice sheet more than a mile thick.
I'll add my own, what about when the sun goes nova. Will Brigadoon then appear in the vacuum of space?
Mr. Forsythe clearly didn't think this through!
And yes, it's a musical, so the story would come to a screeching halt whenever they broke into song.