Nice explanation of how a fossil forms!

*My* ire. . . ?

Interesting theory!

Ricky Graham. . . well said!

Pay no attention to them TBR78. Your question is perfectly legitimate. You're *supposed* to want to know what happened to the departed. Anyone who says they don't is either lying or intellectually deficient.

Only problem with that theory is. . . so then you decide to go for a nice recreational scuba dive? Knowing a storm is coming and you're jeopardizing the boat pilot?

Trust you on this one because you know the minds of all parents, everywhere? All you know is what YOU would do in this situation.

So, if the place where Kevin is the president (and his twin brother) really is somewhere everyone goes after they die, then his decision to turn it into a radioactive wasteland of perpetual nuclear winter just so he won't be tempted to return not only makes him short-sighted (as he'll have to go there eventually) but…

Wolfgirl, Gwarden. . . okay, I see your point(s). Thank you for clearing that up. Still, if you're right, the afterlife then sure seems like a pointless and wacked out place—more like my dreams than I imagine any afterlife would be.

Overall, I was much more satisfied with the resolution of this series than I thought I would be. I love the symmetry of the explanation—the other dimension where 98% of people departed. Didn't see that one coming.

Well, you could always buy the soundtrack album and stage your own devastating scenes at home!

Ha! Excellent point.

I'm with you, winofigments. It all seemed like a bit of a stall to me.

I know this isn't going to win me any friends on this forum, but I don't like it as much as you do. A long way to go for the obvious.

I second your prediction.

Your poem made me think of this poem:

"The Leftists." Ha!

Agreed. This show has straddled the line between atheists and believers. When I first heard the premise of Tom Perotta's novel, I went out and bought the book the next day. I thought, What a great idea! If the rapture were to actually happen, I'd have to re-evaluate my own beliefs (as an atheist) and how…

"Why wasn't this series a proper book?"

Thanks for setting me straight.