How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick

[jimmy olsen]

Better for a Spanish Terico from the 30 Years War to get sent back to like 150AD. The noble in charge should know Latin, as would the priest and Spanish isn't that far off from Latin. It's definitely something the men could learn. Plus they'd have gunsmiths and blacksmiths who would be able to teach the down timers their techniques.

There's a reason why time travel fiction is almost always anchored with one end in the present- you want readers/viewers to be able to relate to somebody.

Plenty of novels/movies are set entirely in the past, how is setting a novel or movie in two different time periods in the past any different?

[Tonitrus]

The American audience can only handle getting bad history about one time period at a time.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

"Nelson and his men, who are crippled without mapping software and GPS to fix their position"


Outside Rome, on the banks of the Tiber! Jeez. what more do you need to figure out where you are? :p

[Josquius]

I've read this same story a bazillion times.
Its pretty common amongst alternate history folks.

[CountDeMoney]

I've read this same story a bazillion times.

Yup.

When I was 13, I started a story about a squad of US infantrymen in post-WW3 West Germany (V Corps out of Heidelberg) that was transported to the Middle Ages.  A few weeks later, my friend Eric showed me a cheesy paperback at the bookstore about a WW2 infantry squad transported to a fantasy world, complete with dragons.  I promptly stopped writing said story.

[derspiess]

Better for a Spanish Terico from the 30 Years War to get sent back to like 150AD. The noble in charge should know Latin, as would the priest and Spanish isn't that far off from Latin. It's definitely something the men could learn. Plus they'd have gunsmiths and blacksmiths who would be able to teach the down timers their techniques.

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[CountDeMoney]

That would be so awesome, having Mike Terico doing the play-by-play for the 30 years war.  But only if Joe Theisman or Paul Maguire can do color.

[derspiess]

That would be so awesome, having Mike Terico doing the play-by-play for the 30 years war.  But only if Joe Theisman or Paul Maguire can do color.

Works for me.

[PDH]

Then he could rape an intern.

[jimmy olsen]

Better for a Spanish Terico from the 30 Years War to get sent back to like 150AD. The noble in charge should know Latin, as would the priest and Spanish isn't that far off from Latin. It's definitely something the men could learn. Plus they'd have gunsmiths and blacksmiths who would be able to teach the down timers their techniques.

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Now that's a funny typo!

I obviously meant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tercio

[Habbaku]

Better for a Spanish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tercio from the 30 Years War to get sent back to like 150AD.

  No, that doesn't make sense, either.  I doubt that the Spanish had Wikipedia links in the 1600s.

[jimmy olsen]

Better for a Spanish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tercio from the 30 Years War to get sent back to like 150AD.

  No, that doesn't make sense, either.  I doubt that the Spanish had Wikipedia links in the 1600s.

Don't be like that.

[derspiess]

Then he could rape an intern.

I think all he did was harrass, right?  And come on, everyone sexually harrasses at ESPN

[PDH]

Then he could rape an intern.

I think all he did was harrass, right?  And come on, everyone sexually harrasses at ESPN

Yeah but it is the 30 Years War he would be covering.  I upped the ante.

[Scipio]

That would be so awesome, having Mike Terico doing the play-by-play for the 30 years war.  But only if Joe Theisman or Paul Maguire can do color.

Theisman: He's no military genius, like Publicus Cornholio Scorpio!