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Probably not the first person to notice this, but I was rewatching the A Crack in Time cutscenes and finally picked up on this deep cut continuity nod. Fun stuff! 😃

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Lyman Spong certainly made plenty of callbacks to his time writing and running the programme in ‘Kablooey’:

HieroRelm Corp. from ‘The Fulsome Adult’, the 11th Inspector’s favourite snack (coffee and custard creams), talking to an Associate who’s just died (as in ‘Hell Turned’), and the crusaders from ‘The Space of the Lions’.

Friends. Nemeses.

I have some somewhat spoilery thoughts about the primary antagonist of this game, but in short there is a degree to which the character is something of a repeat of Mr. Negative’s story in the first game (I see a lot of people comparing them to Doc Ock, but honestly the Martin Li comparison is a lot more apt), following a lot of the same beats and going to many of the same places, albeit with a very different conclusion. Nevertheless, the characters is great - just the right amount of sympathetic yet hypocritical, would-be virtuous but turned cold and cruel by hate. I wish they had put themselves in a position where more could have been done with the character in the future, but I won’t delve any deeper than that right now. Any who, I did like this moment. This game doesn’t have a whole lot of comics nods, but it does have a lot of continuity references to things that happened in the first game, chief among them this flashback where the characters run into each other in the past. I’m still not sold on Peter’s new design. It’s very much as if they chose to sacrifice the character’s ability to emote for making the character more superficially pretty, resulting in a very handsome model with the emotional range of a Ken doll. It’s overall a downgrade from the original, but it’s here to stay, so what can we do. I didn’t bother to get the version with the remastered version of the original, so I can’t speak for MJ’s new design, but I sincerely hope it didn’t get the same treatment Peter’s did. I’ve got a handful more photos before I get deep into the spoilery stuff, but not many (so many spoilery cutscene pics) - I’ll give those few pics out in the next couple days.

#spider-man miles morales #peter parker #peter's new design is frankly not good #spider-man remastered #otto octavius #phin mason #continuity nod #video game photography #insomniac games #redesign #the video game shutterbug

(source: Sinister Spider-man #4: (w) B. Reed (a) C. Bachalo)

(source: All-New Wolverine #26: (w) Tom Taylor (a) Juann Cabal (c) Nolan Woodard)

This is a genuine question.

Remember that time during Dark Reign when Bullseye threw a POODLE in Venom’s eye just to impress Daken?

Fast forward a few years.

Remember that time Daken threw a dog at an Orphan of X?

I wouldn’t say I keep awake at night thinking about it… But. I still wonder whether Tom Taylor was aware of the first one when he set this up or if characters have some kind of life of their own and their muse softly whispers good memories to the ear of their new writers…?

P.S For those who care, I do, I think both dogs lived.

(On a more personal note, feel free to skip this part : the continuity thing got to me so much I had to write a snippet about it, and I hadn’t written fanfics for more than 10 years before that. That was January 2018. Three years later – I’ve counted this morning, for reasons – I have 880 written pages of Daken fanfics on my hard drive, and I’m not done yet… Still wondering if I should curse or bless Tom Taylor.)

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Was the fact that the Inspector mentioned the Nari

during his rambling explanation of Infinity Knights important?

‘There were many of us, the Sergeant, the Nari, the Superintendent …’

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It was obviously done on purpose that the episode ‘Time Geezers’ (Emerald’s first trip in the BOOTH) started out with a trip to the distant past before visiting the far future, an inverse of the Ninth Inspector episode ‘The Beginning of Earth’ (Lily’s first visit to another time).

The postcard on Greg’s refrigerator noting an upcoming exhibition about Pablo Picasso in ‘The Tenant’

was clearly a nod to the episode ‘Picasso and the Inspector’.

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It was never explained in the programme how Winston Churchill could ring up the Inspector.

A couple of Past Inspector Adventure novels had a younger Churchill meet the Seventh Inspector, explaining how they were acquainted by the time of ‘The Angel Above’.

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