• PhantomDennis wins a room w/ an ExpressVu satellite hookup!
• Recall317 wins a lot of money at the track!
• ThomasMalthus wins "Griffine and Sabine: the Enchanted Extrasensory Colouring Book for Mystical Soulmates Aged 3 and Up!"
• DieselMickeyDolenz wins nude-JRD-sensitive sunglasses!
• sliderules wins the equally improved Adam West version of "Mother and Child"!
• Callie21V wins a Slinkyฎ!

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Ah, Josef Anderson... we hardly knew the worlds ye came up with, because ye never imbued them with any damn alternate history. Even next to his talking fireballs and wildly inconsistent vampire mythos, though, this one stands out for sheer random strangeness. What did he do, read "The Time Machine," eat twenty pizzas, and write down his dreams?

But we're here to play "What Would You Change?," and my response involves taking advantage of the airdate delay by replacing the ending. Now I realize the whole "flashback" thing was a last-minute fix, but it couldn't have been too hard to film a followup scene where Wade reacts to the revelation that Arturo was already dying. This potentially excellent scene would almost *justify* holding back "Last of Eden"... and it's not like anyone would miss the existing conclusion, which (a) doesn't resolve anything anyway and (b) constitutes a POV error since Wade and Rembrandt couldn't possibly be narrating it to each other.

As it is, both the beginning *and* ending feel pointless. A shame.

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