DTF955
08-27-2007, 10:11 AM
I believe I've posted here the flurry of reasons why "A House Divided" is a dream. Many fans have voted the same way, or at the least voted it was a bedtime story told by Steph and enlarged to be funny. No other bathrooms, Joey not using the studio as quiet space (which is soundproof and the light tells you not to come down), the pizza guy, Danny money hungry when he never is otherwise, the guy rudely staying when he realizes the neighbor girl let him in (hadn't thought of that before), and many others.
Admittedly for sake of ease of story, in the Chronology it's said they move in middle 1980. However, should the "12 years" (meaning move aroudn the time Steph is born) be considered canon? There are some good reasons for and against.
1. It could be discounted entirely. Let's face it, look at it one way, with that pizza guy entering the bathroom so early in the episode, and I, at least, can see a dreamlike feel.Why not discount everything?
2. More reasonably, there are good arguments that D.J. was remembering it wrong even if she'd said recently that it was 12 years ago. Childhood memories tend to be vague. Try to remember an event, besides your first day of Kindergarten, that happened when you were between 3 and 6. Pictures will help, but unless you spend some time thinking about it, you mightt be off by a year. I've got a good memory for the names and numbers of my stuffed animals, and when I got them in special cases. Yet one I would have sworn I had entering Kindergarten, I learned via an old tape I made I really didn't get till I was midway through first grade. If D.J. associates "moving in" with "Kindergarten" then of course she'd think it was right before she went to Kindergarten, when in fact they lived there 1-2 years before.
Ont he other hand, there are some very good reasons for them to move in late 1981, which would be 12 years and a few months, so 12 years is right. First, Steph was being born; they wanted a bigger house rather than their cramped apartment. Interest rates were sky high in mid-1980 but coming down in late 1981. And, even if it's a dream or story told by soeone, there usually has to be some basis in fact. I doubt Jesse slid down the bannister, for instance, but I can see Danny painting it at 5 AM one day because he was missing pam and couldn't sleep.
So, which would you vote? mid-1980, or the part stated in the episode, 12 years earlier. (Plus some months - it would be too coincidental to be exactly 12 years.)
Admittedly for sake of ease of story, in the Chronology it's said they move in middle 1980. However, should the "12 years" (meaning move aroudn the time Steph is born) be considered canon? There are some good reasons for and against.
1. It could be discounted entirely. Let's face it, look at it one way, with that pizza guy entering the bathroom so early in the episode, and I, at least, can see a dreamlike feel.Why not discount everything?
2. More reasonably, there are good arguments that D.J. was remembering it wrong even if she'd said recently that it was 12 years ago. Childhood memories tend to be vague. Try to remember an event, besides your first day of Kindergarten, that happened when you were between 3 and 6. Pictures will help, but unless you spend some time thinking about it, you mightt be off by a year. I've got a good memory for the names and numbers of my stuffed animals, and when I got them in special cases. Yet one I would have sworn I had entering Kindergarten, I learned via an old tape I made I really didn't get till I was midway through first grade. If D.J. associates "moving in" with "Kindergarten" then of course she'd think it was right before she went to Kindergarten, when in fact they lived there 1-2 years before.
Ont he other hand, there are some very good reasons for them to move in late 1981, which would be 12 years and a few months, so 12 years is right. First, Steph was being born; they wanted a bigger house rather than their cramped apartment. Interest rates were sky high in mid-1980 but coming down in late 1981. And, even if it's a dream or story told by soeone, there usually has to be some basis in fact. I doubt Jesse slid down the bannister, for instance, but I can see Danny painting it at 5 AM one day because he was missing pam and couldn't sleep.
So, which would you vote? mid-1980, or the part stated in the episode, 12 years earlier. (Plus some months - it would be too coincidental to be exactly 12 years.)