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I wasn't especially planning to watch this, but I'd seen so many clips on TikTok, out of order, that I decided I might as well see it from beginning to end. My standards for Romance are pretty high-think Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and the Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane books-and this wasn't in that league, but it was enjoyable all the same.

But I am also a science-fiction fan, and I think this may be the best time-travel story since the one at the heart of "Babylon 5". It's an elegant case of circular causation, and "I have to do this now because I already did."

Kudos to all.

Both the 9-1-1 shows tend to be unpredictable structured, with no such thing as a "typical" episode. This one continued the tradition, with some oddball emergencies, and a resolution for the Iris arc.

By the way, in the 1859 CME event, the aurora borealis was visible in Mexico, Cuba, and Hawai'i, so the guy snarking on that point is just plain wrong.

I chanced to catch this on US television many years ago, under the title of "The Treasure of Swamp Castle", and was astounded as I watched it to realize that it was an alternate version of a live show that I'd been in in New York in 1984. It's based on the novel "A cigánybáró" (1885), by Mór Jókai, which is also the source of the operetta "Die Zigeunerbaron" ("The Gypsy Baron") by Johann Strauss, II. Although it is not an operetta, much of Strauss's music is used as underscoring, most amusingly when the famous Pig-farmer's Song ("I've no time for learning writing. / Breeding pigs is too exciting.") is adapted as a formal gavotte.

The film is in the style of animation known as "International", and a tad surreal. Some bits of the plot seemed a bit vague, but perhaps that was the English translation.