Guardians of the Galaxy

[ratcreature]

It finally opened here this week, and it was fun to watch, though slightly confusing, because I'm not familiar at all with Marvel's cosmology and all the alien species running around there and their intergalactic grudges, so it was hard to put the events in any sort of context. Then again, the comics themselves probably don't make much sense in the first place.


So would each of the Groot-fragments grow into a new Groot if nurtured like the one Rocky kept at the end, and that's how its species reproduces (and do the saplings keep previous knowledge and such?), or could Rocky somehow discern the core fragment and just that regrows the same Groot?

And did I get this right, that these space pirates who abducted Peter Quill as a kid were contracted to do that by his alien father, and then didn't follow through with delivery? If yes, how come that the alien didn't confront them at some point? Supposedly it must be fairly powerful when even half its biology is enough to control enormously destructive magical gems and such.

Also there is no way a cassette tape would hold out for 26 years when played this often with a 1980s Walkman. Somehow this bothers me even in the context of a setup this bizarre with gun-toting raccoons, magical gems and stuff. Maybe Peter has some hidden half-alien superpower to subconsciously repair magnetic storage...

Comments

[ratcreature]

Or he digitized it ages ago, and made the storage just look like a cassette tape, like retro-USB sticks looking like all sorts of things, and reused the casing of the old Walkman.

[basingstoke]

The second tape played, though.

[ratcreature]

True. Consistent fanwanking is tricky work... Still leaves the option that he left the Walkman tape playing mechanism intact, just added a small digital port/player inside. I bet you could fit an mp3 player inside a 1988 Walkman casing and still have it play cassettes.

[basingstoke]

Hm, you could totally fit the guts of an ipod shuffle inside a cassette. Save more space by the fact that it only has to play about twelve songs in one order.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, that makes more sense than him constantly repairing the tape somehow to nurse it along a quarter of a century. Keeping just the Walkman working while using it as retro cover for whatever the alien equivalent to an iPod is seems more plausible.

[basingstoke]

That makes sense! WE TRIUMPH OVER CANON!

[ratcreature]

Comic fandoms give you the best training for that. *insert Rocky-type montage of the intrepid fan with three dozen Wikipedia/Wikia pages open, plus four websites with assembled universe timelines, while crossreferencing the contradictory movie-canon...*