It’s like the real Coke — there are many imitators, and pretenders, and copies — but only one Santa served by elves and flying reindeers making and wrapping all his toys at the North Pole and delivering them all by sleigh down the chimneys
in one night.
The other “Santas” are mere pikers compared to him.
>>It’s like the real Coke — there are many imitators, and pretenders, and copies — but only one Santa served by elves and flying reindeers making and wrapping all his toys at the North Pole and delivering them all by sleigh down the chimneys
in one night.
The other “Santas” are mere pikers compared to him.<<
The science is good, but has anyone ever really contemplated the magic? I like magic discussions so long as it is set in a Universe of some sort of rules.
“Charmed” tried to do that but then they fell back on that lamest of lame plotlines — time travel (thread drift question: Why does everyone in an post Time Travel changed Universe cooperate with the knowledge the “him/her” will disappear like a lost sock in a dryer?)
So may I suggest we assemble a magical, yet consistent, structure for Santa’s exploits? This must bridge the gaps between elves building homemade dolls and trains and the delivered Lego and X-Box/Playstations, etc.
No one has, to date, really addressed this as a serious pursuit. The movies punt when push comes to shove. We have options such as distorted time, illusions, elves pretending to be Walmart buyers, etc. etc. etc.
And while we are at it, we can try to find ONE sitcom that does not posit a real, magical Santa...