Fresno Quik and the birth of Subsidized Time — "Plus there’s some retroactive puzzlement, because…"
Plus there’s some retroactive puzzlement, because the advent of Subsidized Time is historically known to have been a revenue-response to the heady costs of the U.S.’s Reconfigurative giveaway, which means it must have come after formal Interdependence, and indeed in the film it does come after, but then the chronology of some of the end makes it seem like Tine sold Johnny Gentle on his whole Sino-temporal-endorsement revenue scheme sometime in Orin Incandenza’s first major-sport year at Boston U., which ended in the Year of the Whopper, pretty obviously a Subsidized year.
Context
The audience doing continuity-checking on Mario's film mid-screening — spotting an order-of-events wobble the way a film scholar would. Carlisle's sec. 94 commentary actually untangles it (his reading: by the internal dates the film has the two events reversed, and Subsidized Time answered Gentle's first two campaign planks, not Reconfiguration), which makes this the rare passage where the book plants a real continuity error in a film for viewers and critics to work.