As I hurtle through yet ANOTHER wormhole, I’ve got a few minutes to jot down some thoughts. Firstly, there’s the craziest OGOPOGO SONG that keeps bouncing around in my head! Secondly, I was RIGHT! Slade effectively confirmed everything I had suspected.
Nessie is the key to everything. It can unlock these crazy underwater tunnels in the hollow earth that can seemingly take you anywhere at any time. Exactly how this is done is the question.
Slade broke down all the things we already suspected about Nessie. But, he didn’t provide an answer to how Nessie can unlock these wormholes. I’d love to know how, but I am not getting my hopes up.
Determining the actual existence of Nessie solved one mystery only to seemingly catalyze a brand new one. This new mystery is MUCH bigger than Nessie. How the hell did a giant, aquatic, pre-historic creature learn to time travel?
I suppose if you live long enough, you can eventually learn how to do anything. Nessie’s been around for thousands (millions?) of years. I imagine it has learned all kinds of things we feeble humans can barely comprehend.
While Pops was sharp enough to develop a device that enables some kind of crude communication with Nessie, we barely know how to use the SIREN. Slade is looking at Pops to be our savior, but this idea is a bit nuts. Aside from re-directing a few schools of fish, the SIREN hasn’t done much.
You gotta give Slade and his NEPTUNE cronies some credit for reverse engineering the SIREN. Granted, their version kinda sucks. But, they did identify a frequency that elicits some kind of response from Nessie!
But, the idea that Dad’s version of the SIREN can get us home is a real shot in the dark. How the hell is Dad going to find the right frequency? And, what might happen if he dials up the WRONG one?
Man, I wish real time travel was as simple as Back to the Future. In BTF, it was really just a matter of having the vehicle, having the fuel, and punching in your coordinates. It’s a bit trickier in the real world it seems.
I suppose that only makes sense. The real world is always trickier and more messed up than the version you see on the big (or small) screen. There are rarely easy answers to anything.
Which me brings me to Tommy. If we can somehow find a way to travel through time and space, could there be a way to find Tommy? I have no idea how we could possibly do this, but the Cohens have a knack for doing things that seem impossible.
So, why couldn’t we find a way to find my long lost brother who seemingly fell into some interdimensional portal? It doesn’t seem much more farfetched than somehow finding our way home. Or maybe this is just me being irrationally optimistic.
Whoa! Things just got a bit bumpy. Looks like the Trident is arriving at our next time and destination. Time to put the pen down and ride this one out!