#if you know one piece please know i'm considering david stirling exactly like zoro now in terms of his sense of direction
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I'm so sorry I can't take the Dudley-breaks-the-news-of-Eve's-supposed-death scene seriously AT ALL. It's hilarious! It's the reason why I'm a Dudley/Eve conspiracy nut, for fun, but let me explain the reasons this scene leaves me with no sanity.
First, it's important to know that the Qattara Depression, where Dudley says Eve's plane went down, is WEST of Alexandria (off to the left, on a map). Cairo is to the east/right of Alexandria. There is no way a plane headed from Alexandria to Cairo would go west.
So, from west (left) to east (right) we have: the Qattara Depression - Alexandria - the sandstorm Dudley says happened - Cairo.
Now, this is in a show that's playing fancy-dress-up-costume with history, and moved Kabrit from where it actually is (east of the Nile, by the Suez Canal) to a few hundred miles into the desert west of the Nile. Option one in the Eve plane story mystery is that the showrunners just didn't give a shit about where a place was, they simply slapped a name in there because they'd read/heard about it, and figured no one would know or bother to check. That would be on par for the show. (And the racist assumption that no one's going to know/care/bother to check where these places are - I very much doubt we're going to find them playing fast and loose with the location of European places.)
Anyway, leaving aside the option that makes me spit incredulous venom, I have a far more amusing second option to put forward:
Dudley was making shit up.
Which is extra fucking funny because Stirling, having been out in the desert, should very much know where the Qattara Depresison is. Dudley would know that Stirling should know. He'd be cackling internally at Stirling falling for it.
I don't know if I believe a word of what Dudley said, it makes no sense, but David not noticing the inconsistency means either anyone watching the show who knows vaugely where places in Egypt are just have to shriek in intense discomfort, or David is a complete and utter dumbass when it comes to remembering where places are.
#sas rogue heroes#david stirling#dudley clark#if you know one piece please know i'm considering david stirling exactly like zoro now in terms of his sense of direction#sas rogue heroes meta#document type: intelligence report#oh man oh man i truly wish they'd just made up a place name for show!kabrit#if the original location didn't suit the tv story then make up a new one!#anyway onward with the eve/dudley propaganda#it would be funny that's my entire reason for shipping it#i will ship anything and everything i genuinely need no excuse#but the massive fuck-up detail in that scene made me think 'what if the words are genuine and the places are where they acually are?'#which leads to the not-far-fetched conclusion that dudley is lying for his own reasons#and he did turn up sober and saying he finally found someone who is willing to put up with him#maybe he left the numbers off of the truck because he wanted stirling out of the way#who knows#this whole show is free real estate i have zero respect for its narrative#or that fuckin fishbowl wide lens thing they overused whyyyyyyyy
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