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   dumpster4@hotmail.com to Matt Garvey   
   Re: Notes for XABF14 (Flanders' Ladder)   
   22 May 18 20:46:40   
   
   On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 6:07:05 PM UTC-7, Matt Garvey wrote:   
   > I don't really know what this episode is referencing the plot of, but   
   overall I did like the concept. It was interesting and made for some nice uses   
   of older characters, and it wasn't profound or moving, but it was still neat.   
   The VHS opening gags,    
   though a few a little too silly and others a bit on the nose, were pretty fun   
   overall. The only thing that didn't do it for me was the act 4/coda montage of   
   how various characters die. That and the incredible shortness.   
      
      
   The title looked like a play on "Jacob's Ladder":   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_(film)   
      
      
   Though the plot itself seemed like a riff on the Movie "Ghost Town":   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Town_(2008_film)   
      
      
   Though the trope of ghosts having "unfinished business" has been used many    
   times:   
      
   http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnfinishedBusiness   
      
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