Impending Doom - Blog Posts

Hey y'all, I'm watching Invader Zim again cause it's my favorite show and very nostalgic for me, and I love it a whole lot. Anyway, I know it's a show where they didn't put much thought into many of the details, but I'm a person who likes to overthink stupid little details. Now, on to my point, one thing that always stuck out to me for no reason was the sticky note that started it all.

It's clear that someone felt the need to mark some mystery planet just beyond the Irken map, whether or not they meant to mark Earth or some other planet vaguely to that side is debatable, but why mark it at all if there was nothing of interest out that way? You wouldn't. However, you would mark a mystery planet if you thought it was important. Perhaps some foreign intel from another species gave you clues that there was something useful over there, or maybe you were catching odd signals out that way. What's more is with the way Red and Purple talk I don't think that note was left by either of them, if they knew something they wanted to explore was out there they would never have sent Zim of all people, and they talk like they don't think any planet exists beyond their map and are genuinely surprised that Zim found one. If I had to guess, I'd say it was left by a previous tallest who never got around to sending anyone out there and went unnoticed after that until Red and Purple needed a convenient excuse to send Zim as far away as possible. After all, we know Zim caused the death of two tallests in his lifetime alone. It's highly possible they had left unfinished business behind.

Basically, this was a long-winded way of saying that I think the note that marks earth was always interesting.