https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3A1451%3A_Background_ScreensTalk:1451: Background Screens - Revision history2026-05-23T15:40:01ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=180383&oldid=prev162.158.186.96 at 03:01, 24 September 20192019-09-24T03:01:09Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It may be worthy of note that the 2016 film "Arrival" (released 2 years after this comic) does, in fact, feature one of the alien ships landing in Greenland for no apparent reason, and we first find this out by way of a (fairly prominent) background map. I can't find anything suggesting it's a deliberate xkcd reference, but... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.157|162.158.154.157]] 07:09, 4 September 2017 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It may be worthy of note that the 2016 film "Arrival" (released 2 years after this comic) does, in fact, feature one of the alien ships landing in Greenland for no apparent reason, and we first find this out by way of a (fairly prominent) background map. I can't find anything suggesting it's a deliberate xkcd reference, but... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.157|162.158.154.157]] 07:09, 4 September 2017 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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</table>162.158.186.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=144915&oldid=prev162.158.154.157: Comment on "Arrival".2017-09-04T07:09:25Z<p>Comment on "Arrival".</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Doctor Who in the past few years has sometimes put carefully tailored continuity nods into its background screens specifically to troll the fans. As soon as someone discovers something, Moffat tweets that it means nothing and was just created by the graphics team at the last second. Since the last part is clearly not being true, everyone assumes the first part isn't true either, so that scene proves that one of the things that a 1991 novel claims was covered up is actually known to mainstream news organizations, and therefore that other novel that implies another layer of disinformation within UNIT has been confirmed on TV. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.52|162.158.255.52]] 11:54, 25 September 2015 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Doctor Who in the past few years has sometimes put carefully tailored continuity nods into its background screens specifically to troll the fans. As soon as someone discovers something, Moffat tweets that it means nothing and was just created by the graphics team at the last second. Since the last part is clearly not being true, everyone assumes the first part isn't true either, so that scene proves that one of the things that a 1991 novel claims was covered up is actually known to mainstream news organizations, and therefore that other novel that implies another layer of disinformation within UNIT has been confirmed on TV. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.52|162.158.255.52]] 11:54, 25 September 2015 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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</table>162.158.154.157https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=102422&oldid=prev162.158.255.52 at 11:54, 25 September 20152015-09-25T11:54:12Z<p></p>
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</table>162.158.255.52https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=79750&oldid=prevDavidy22 at 16:48, 25 November 20142014-11-25T16:48:02Z<p></p>
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</table>Davidy22https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=79746&oldid=prev108.162.254.42 at 12:06, 25 November 20142014-11-25T12:06:22Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sometimes, of course, background screens show something that's a {{w|Chekhov's gun}}. (If you really have nothing to do for a few hours, after reading the Wiki article wander over to TVTropes and also enquire about Chekhov's Gunsmith, etc...)  Although as an inveterate "ha! that's just DOS DEBUG scrolling away, feigning being an Enemy Code Transmission'"-person, myself, I think I might visit that Source Code in TV and Films link myself, when I've got more time... ;) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.247|141.101.98.247]] 21:41, 24 November 2014 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sometimes, of course, background screens show something that's a {{w|Chekhov's gun}}. (If you really have nothing to do for a few hours, after reading the Wiki article wander over to TVTropes and also enquire about Chekhov's Gunsmith, etc...)  Although as an inveterate "ha! that's just DOS DEBUG scrolling away, feigning being an Enemy Code Transmission'"-person, myself, I think I might visit that Source Code in TV and Films link myself, when I've got more time... ;) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.247|141.101.98.247]] 21:41, 24 November 2014 (UTC)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Smperronhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=79717&oldid=prev141.101.104.45: comment2014-11-24T18:06:58Z<p>comment</p>
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</table>141.101.104.45https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=79712&oldid=prev173.245.48.134 at 15:19, 24 November 20142014-11-24T15:19:44Z<p></p>
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</table>173.245.48.134https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1451:_Background_Screens&diff=79705&oldid=prevMaplestrip at 12:12, 24 November 20142014-11-24T12:12:16Z<p></p>
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