my only memory of speed racer is speed having the sudden revelation of a "dimension only reached... by speed" and it's so demented i've never forgotten it and kinda want to write a space opera where that's true
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Replying to @perdricof
The original series didn't have anything overtly fantastic like that that I remember, are you thinking of The Next Generation
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
honestly it could be a false memory, cobbled together from who knows what and polished by time until it shines who even knows
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Replying to @perdricof
Speed Racer TNG had a "Virtual Track" (some kind of holodeck they physically drove their cars into) that allowed them to have physically impossible environments for extreme stunts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
It also eventually gave the Mach 6 an obvious ripoff of the flux capacitor from Back to the Future allowing to drive so fast it could travel back in time
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Replying to @arthur_affect
does it involve drinking an extra-secret speed energy drink in my mind it does
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Replying to @perdricof
Oh no, you're right, you're describing the episode The Fastest Car on Earth Speed starts hallucinating under the influence of the G-forces of the forbidden GRX engine, which seems to exert a diabolical influence on racecar drivers like the One Ring
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
The only antidote to this effect is the dangerous V-Gas drug, which supercharges the driver's brain to allow him to handle the incredible speed but with highly deleterious side effects
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Anyway it's not actually another dimension it's just his brain shutting down
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
But, then again, what other dimension can't you say that of
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Replying to @arthur_affect
the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents etc etc cthulhu is waiting beyond the g-barrier, speed can't you hear him calling can't you hear the song
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