Jeanie Bottle 577
May05
on May 5, 2020
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 26, 2022. at 10:25 pm
Chapter: Story 13: I Dream of Separation
Oh my… Does this mean what I think it means?!
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Oh my… Does this mean what I think it means?!
I have a new fish theory: When the other kid said “I like fish!” just as Caley was telling Araceli how much she’d like Neil to be there, a distracted Araceli heard “wish” instead of “fish”. It still doesn’t explain why that kid said “I like fish!” at that time, but it might explain why CD made the kid say it.
Idk, bad timing?
I can see two plot lines developing from the body switch:
1. Neil dealing with the guy hitting on Araceli.
2. Araceli getting Neil in trouble with Neil’s and Rodge’s boss. We haven’t seen the boss for a long time, and as far as we know, Araceli has never seen the boss. Just not knowing jack about rocket science would be enough, but even better would be if Araceli sees the boss as just another irritating man before she knows he’s Neil’s boss.
There’s also the possibility that Agent Anderson could show up, most likely at Jupiter 2 Engineering to have another word with Rodge, and perhaps with Rodge’s boss. This would provide an excellent opportunity for Araceli (as Neil) to make things even worse. Again, as far as we know, Araceli knows nothing about Agent Anderson and what happened in Las Vegas.
Less likely but maybe more fun would be for Agent Anderson to be either nosing around the visitor center or just there for some educational recreation, and the guy who was hitting on Araceli starts putting moves on Anderson. Neil as Araceli steps in to chase him off, and Anderson is grateful. But Anderson may also notice her new friend seems to know an awful lot about rocket science for a children’s nanny…
Maybe CD will make one of these things happen?
Wow. I didn’t realize what the last panel meant until reading the comics. First Jean and Blue Djinn, now Araceli and Neil. It’s Genie Freaky Friday, or rather Freaky Tuesday and Thursday.
I do have one question. Back when Neil and Araceli went out on that date, Araceli developed a dislike for hot dogs. Now that Neil is in her body, would the body still retain its dislike. Like Araceli(Neil) taking a bite out of one, unaware the real Araceli hates them, and then vomits it out?
I think Araceli’s aversion to hot dogs is more cultural or emotional than biological. She does not eat animal products. Neil should not have a problem with hot dogs unless Caley reminds him that Araceli does not eat meat.
The reason I asked is because I read this manga called Swap Swap where these 2 girls would swap by kissing. Using each other’s bodies, they were able to eat food that they didn’t like before as themselves.
I’m watching another episode of I Dream of Jeannie tonight. I have all 139. Anyway, Roger has a lot of screen time in this one, and once again I noticed that Roger Healey was supposed to be in the US Army. I wonder why? There have been at least nineteen Army astronauts, but none of the ones I looked up served in the Sixties.
BTW, if you look at Roger’s uniform in the series, even in black-and-white, you should notice that he wears castles on his lapels. This means he would be in the Corps of Engineers, not Army Aviation, although he also wears aviator’s wings over his left breast pocket. I wonder why Sidney Sheldon decided to create an astronaut from the Corps of Engineers.
Roger would have come into the IDoJ’s version of NASA via the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, which developed some of the early Jupiter C rockets. He’d originally have been from the propulsion development team. Early NASA was weird, even before it struck off into Star Trek territory in IDoJ, in where it drew its officers from, and there was a big public fight between the US Army and US Airforce over missile and rocket development too.
Either that or he’d have been part of the construction support and maintenance team from when the Corps of Engineers built the space center. There are a few different routes he could have taken from that, especially for dramatic license purpose. The Engineer Corps was heavily involved in the early NASA days in quite a few ways, so his branch is reasonable.
Maybe Sidney Sheldon became close with someone in the Corps of Engineers, and that someone could have pointed out all that the Corps had done for the Space Program while the Astronauts (and the early ones were all test pilots) got all the glory.
The Army got it’s foot in the door in the biggest way because of Werner von Braun. The former Nazi was basically an Army asset working out of the Redstone Arsenal when Sputnik went up in October 1957. The Army was in sad shape at that time. It had lost out to the Air Force and the Navy in the funding wars mainly because the Air Force had the bombers that carried the nukes, and the Navy had Rickover and his sexy nuclear subs. The Army hoped to come back with ICBMs, but then the Navy and Air force got a range restriction slapped on by some friends in Congress. So poor Werner couldn’t build anything bigger than the Redstone missile. Now he had worked out a way to launch a small satellite into orbit with the Redstone by 1955, but that was slapped down by Eisenhower, who gave the honor of launching the world’s first artificial satellite to the Navy’s Vanguard program.
Meanwhile Russia’s smart guy Korolev built the R-7, their first ICBM. It took days to fuel up, and sometimes blew up, but thanks to the wonderful way the Communist Party massaged away bad news, very few people knew that on either side of the Iron Curtain.
Four vivid memories of my childhood: Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2 with Laika the dog aboard (that’s where the stop-action studio gets its name), the first picture of the far side of the moon taken by a Russian probe–and, on live TV, Vanguard 1 blowing up on its launch pad. Von Braun finally got to launch his satellite and eventually build the Saturn 5 that took us to the moon.
BTW, Walt Disney really liked von Braun, and made a movie about his life called “I Aim at the Stars”. Some people thought the title wasn’t long enough and added “But Sometimes I Hit London.”
And how do American astronauts get into space today? Why, on Russian R-7 rockets.
Does Caley know about Jeanie and the Neil>Natalie body transformations? If not (and I can’t find any evidence that Caley does know), then Neil>Araceli would have a very hard time explaining what just happened. Rodge knows so Araceli>Neil will have less of a problem once “he” explains what happened, assuming “Cheese Pasta Man” returns to Neil’s cubicle before Araceli>Neil gets into trouble. The worst thing that can happen (among many worst things) is that Rodge mentions something about the Neil>Natalie body transformations to Araceli giving her something to use as leverage to gain Neil as her Master.
No, neither Caley nor does Araceli know that Natalie is also Neil. At least they didn’t know the last time they had contact with each other. Does Caley know that Jeanie a Genie too, we don’t know for sure or if she thinks that Jeanie is just Neil girlfriend. But at the present, it appears that Caley thinks of Jeanie is just Neil girlfriend which Caley is jealous of and want gone from Neil life. Unless Araceli has told Caley that Jeanie is a Genie too, then Caley doesn’t know that Jeanie a Genie also.
The real question is what is Araceli going to do when she realizes shes in Neil’s body?
Also judging by Caley’s wording of the wish they should switch back after the trip is over, which should be just enough time for Neil/Araceli to be summoned to the temple to decide on Jean’s fate.
I know this comment is rather late, but it occurred to me while reading today’s page.
I just want to comment on how nice it is that you try to incorporate real tasks into what Neil has to do for his work, instead of just having him blankly file away at paperwork or a computer screen, doing some ambiguous “job” without any real explanation.
This feels so much more grounded and real, and it is rare to see shows/comics put in that much effort.