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Post by captbart on Dec 9, 2010 11:07:21 GMT -5
Interesting perspective. Makes you wonder how the Indians in the valley or the Chinese dealt with the dirt dragons/demons. They do have a surprising level of technology thought. The telegraph, steam engine and firearms are really fairly sophisticated compared to 100 yrs before the time. Don't underestimate the resourcefulness of our ancestors - they were pretty bright people solving the same type of problems we do today with a much simpler approach. The "tin can seismographs" in T4 is a prime example. And they didn't need batteries.
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Post by BarrettM82 on Feb 9, 2011 21:13:24 GMT -5
But you don't know all the time if the graboids are coming. If your miles away and using the tin cans in T4, you wouldn't know what happened 'till your halfway down a graboid's gullet. Burt in Tremors 3 anybody?
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Post by captbart on Apr 4, 2011 11:37:02 GMT -5
Hiram was the new kid in T4. I wonder if there was any link between Nancy and any of the characters in T4. Didn't really see a Melvin (unless it was Hiram) in T4. I guess that kind of non-sense got you dead in the west of the late 1800s. Still, Hiram became Burt; the Changs became Walter and Jodi, Jaun becomes Miguel that leads to Rosalita (I liked Miguel but Rosalita IS easier on the eyes), and Tecopa leads to Harlowe. Any speculation on any of the other folks in the show. Old Fred for instance?
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Post by project412 on Apr 4, 2011 16:14:17 GMT -5
Old Fred could somehow be related to Old Fred
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Post by captbart on Apr 5, 2011 10:14:49 GMT -5
Your right ... does EVERY small town out west have an Old Fred? I had forgotten the same name. Some how the idea of old Fred having kids is just too trauma inducing. I prefer getting slurped by a big worm! Edgar, the old booze hound, is another I don't see a link to;
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Post by BarrettM82 on Apr 5, 2011 17:17:07 GMT -5
Only connections I can see are: Hiram and Burt Gummer Old Fred I and Old Fred II Juan Pedilla and Miguel and Rosalita Sanchez Can thank Tremors Wiki for pointing out that third one. I never thought of it till I found the site.
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Post by captbart on Apr 6, 2011 9:50:17 GMT -5
Could be. Burt's silver bars that are destroyed in T3 MIGHT come from the Hiram's mine or he could have just invested wisely. (You see what silver is doing in price lately? For a reference, less than a year ago it was $22 an ounce.) One of the miners that survived (not the one's Hiram led back to the mine) might have come back and settled in "Rejection" and quit mining. The Doc and wife seemed transplants. Any others?
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Post by rikimusmaximus on Apr 11, 2012 15:30:49 GMT -5
I thought the hotel owner who took a shine to Hiram, and had a liking for guns, could have been the forerunner for Burt's gal in T1, red head too?
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Post by captbart on Apr 11, 2012 19:39:01 GMT -5
Nice connection. Although I placed her with Nancy I like yours better. Still,it may just be that the Gummers have a thing about red heads .... I sorta have the same issue - I married my high school sweetheart 43 years ago next month - Texas lass and red hair! ;D
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Post by rikimusmaximus on Apr 18, 2012 9:59:01 GMT -5
*timforston. I made a similar connection. If Burts great-grandad settled there, and built a house with a basement, and its the same location as Burts, it doesn't jive with Burt saying he chose to live out there for its isolation. I would think he kinda inherited it. Also, i wonder if he inherited any old money from his relation. How else can he afford to build a bunker full of guns, and not work?
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Post by captbart on May 4, 2012 15:08:21 GMT -5
Well, just because you inherited land doesn't mean you have to live on it, i guess. It COULD be that when Burt went looking for 'geographic isolation' he went back to the old family homestead. The silver bars are a bit of a conundrum. I tend to think it did NOT come from the mine. If it had, Perfection might have been a much different place. Hiram probably would not have wasted any funds he got from the mine so maybe it was 'old' silver but I suspect Burt worked hard to fund his stockpile. I still wonder why he didn't invest in a metal detector after T3. Maybe it was too much of an El Blanco attractor to be useful.
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Post by Earl Bassett on Mar 6, 2016 19:01:15 GMT -5
Watching T4 ... anyone notice the NAME of the gun store Hiram goes to? I just caught it in passing. I can't believe I've missed it until now! HINT: "Developed in 1935 by Charles Richter in partnership with Beno Gutenberg, both of the California Institute of Technology" from Wikipedia. I'll give everyone a chance to figure it out before I spill the beans. I am amazed at the creative subtleties of the writers. I think I'd like them if I ever got to know them. I actually noticed this for the first time when I watched it last week! A very clever name for the store.
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Post by captbart on Jun 23, 2016 11:18:21 GMT -5
I've been studying Morse code (as opposed to "international" code used on the radio) so when I can watch T4 again I will be able to see what they are REALLY sending over the wire. I'll post when/if I learn anything.
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Post by Earl Bassett on May 4, 2018 17:56:59 GMT -5
I've been studying Morse code (as opposed to "international" code used on the radio) so when I can watch T4 again I will be able to see what they are REALLY sending over the wire. I'll post when/if I learn anything. Have you watched it since and what did you learn if you did?
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Post by captbart on May 5, 2018 16:36:10 GMT -5
EB, I actually have not done anything along this line is quite a while. Truth is, I got busy and forgot about it. My apologies. I will have to see about picking it up again.
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