I apologise if this has come up before, I'm not always able to keep up with all this stuff, however it seems to fit in ideally at this point.
Is anyone familiar with the old Columbo episodes? Rarely a murder case goes by without the murderer going out of their way, do something perhaps out of their ordinary routine to establish an alibi; from simply asking a potential witness the time to setting up some elaborate scheme to ensure that potential witnesses will remember the killer's movements at a specific time. "Oh, it couldn't have been Mr Shatner, Lieutenant, I remember he showed me the new watch he'd just bought. I remember distinctly the time was precisely three-thirty, he was most insistent to show me how accurate the Swiss movement was..." And so forth.
How do we know the tomb was empty? Because a vignette scene shows just how empty the tomb was; which wouldn't be so bad in itself, rather sloppy storytelling but forgivable if the stories weren't so horribly inconsistent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGUtjcOiITU?rel=0
Relevant quote for anyone who, for whatever reasons, cannot or will not watch the video:
"In truth, the visit of the women to the tomb is a contrived plot element. The author need the women to go to the tomb, not really to anoint the body - that's simply a pretext - but to witness that the stone has been moved away and that the tomb itself was empty."
Or to put it another way: "The tomb had to have been empty, Lieutenant. The women who rolled back the rock were most insistent about how empty it was."
Is anyone familiar with the old Columbo episodes? Rarely a murder case goes by without the murderer going out of their way, do something perhaps out of their ordinary routine to establish an alibi; from simply asking a potential witness the time to setting up some elaborate scheme to ensure that potential witnesses will remember the killer's movements at a specific time. "Oh, it couldn't have been Mr Shatner, Lieutenant, I remember he showed me the new watch he'd just bought. I remember distinctly the time was precisely three-thirty, he was most insistent to show me how accurate the Swiss movement was..." And so forth.
How do we know the tomb was empty? Because a vignette scene shows just how empty the tomb was; which wouldn't be so bad in itself, rather sloppy storytelling but forgivable if the stories weren't so horribly inconsistent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGUtjcOiITU?rel=0
Relevant quote for anyone who, for whatever reasons, cannot or will not watch the video:
"In truth, the visit of the women to the tomb is a contrived plot element. The author need the women to go to the tomb, not really to anoint the body - that's simply a pretext - but to witness that the stone has been moved away and that the tomb itself was empty."
Or to put it another way: "The tomb had to have been empty, Lieutenant. The women who rolled back the rock were most insistent about how empty it was."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
