#also arc numbers aside do you know i actually sat down and calculated out that date#based on the CORN can you... can you please elaborate on this i don't think i've ever seen a more fascinating set of tags and i read all your tag rants every time so that's saying something
Haha, this isn’t really as arcane as you may be thinking! I was frustrated by the fact that we never get actual dates for pretty much anything in the 2009 film, and I needed a date for when Jim and Leonard meet on the shuttle. Because even if there is no right answer, I need to have the right answer, you know?
Anyway, there’s a single shot of Jim driving by what’s implied to be a cornfield in the early morning gloom on his way to the shipyard. (The shot is dark as hell and was apparently filmed in California, so who knows what the crop actually was.) So I dug into a bunch of very dry resources specific to Iowa agriculture to pin down the range for when the corn typically starts emerging, and judging by the look of the plants in that shot, I ultimately decided it made sense for it to be early May. Which was perfect, because that stardate lined up very nicely with some other stuff. Thank you, corn!