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That doesn't make any sense either. Why would she? And by the time Marty grew up enough to see the resemblance to Calvin Klein over twenty years have passed. Dave is likely over 20, evidence by the oddness of his working at a fast food joint and, after Marty's return, that he is going to work in a business suit.
George and Lorraine have no photos of Calvin. After 20 years his face would be unclear enough in their memories that its unlikely he would ever come to mind.
More importantly, Marty had two older siblings. Marty could not be his own father.
As far as I know there was no book as original material. I believe the book, authored by Earl Mac Rauch, was written in conjunction with the screenplay.
As Master (1082) says, you either get it or you don't. It is bizarre and eccentric. If you don't have that turn of mind you likely won't enjoy it.
Which is not a criticism of you or anyone else. De gustabus non est disputandum. Taste is not arguable. Neither you or I is right, or wrong, about this film. It simply appeals to my taste, and many others; and doesn't appeal to you, and many others.
It is obviously an attempt to alleviate the issues from last season. Juan Pablo would likely never have been eliminated if this system was in place. It still might not have prevented Bobby Bones from going to the finale and winning the mirror ball; but it might have. Of course, one of the others who should have been in the finale might not have made it.
The other thing that may help the issue is that voting concludes at the end of the show rather than a couple of hours later. Of course, that leads to the issue is it fair for the later couples since voters are already voting for earlier couples. And people are still likely to vote for favorite celebrities regardless of dancing skill.
Perhaps it should be voting begins when the show ends. Lasts for 45 minutes. Then at 11 (10 central) we move back to DWTS to find out the results.
Still not perfect. And it never will be. Audience judging is always suspect. I'm involved in a competitive hobby. We see competition directors from time to time promote the audience meter as the best way to determine winners. I always challenge that, and would not compete in such an event if I knew before hand.
Judges can be Biased. But I'd rather rely on a panel of knowledgeable judges than an audience.
This movie does have that scene. But you are incorrect. There were flashbacks in the 1932 mummy. In fact they are the same scenes. They were reused for this movie. The only difference is they substituted Tom Tyler (who played Kharis is this movie) for Boris Karloff (who played Imhotep in the 1932 mummy). For some reason they decided to change the names of the characters.
The simplest answer is that by the time they realized Krypton was doomed it was far too late. And would shifting the planet prevent it from exploding? They would have to move just the population. Either way, there was no time to do it.
Yet Nasa and several astronauts praise the book highly. The film simplifies some things and adds some that don't make sense, but is overall a fairly good adaptation.
One of the marks of good fiction, especially fantastic fiction such as SF, Fantasy, Horror, is that as much of the world as possible is normal. So, the "normal" aspects of the world should be as real as possible. In this one the only abnormal things are werewolves and victims in limbo. Given that David, Jack and Alex's actions should be normal and not surprising except where they are interacting with werewolves and limbo ghosts.
Now, as I mentioned above, I don't have a problem with the boys wandering over the moors. Jack's rate of decomposition is not easily explainable except for dramatic license.
David's family not coming could be for any number of reasons (other than for dramatic needs of the film). I would guess they are not rich. David is probably on a scholarship. He and Jack probably scraped together the funds and probably found a cheap flight. Which is why they are backpacking and looking for cheap lodging.
Alex taking David in is odd; she doesn't know him. But given the culture at the time a young man being asked to stay in the hospital with a beautiful woman and taking her up on that is quite believable.
>>>he effectively a ruler in his own right, or just the chairman of the council, like a modern mayor<<<
A clarification here. This definition of a mayor is highly dependent on the city in which you reside. In many cities the mayor is not the chairman of the city council or even on it.
In the city I live in, as well as most of the cities in the neighboring areas the mayor is equivalent to a president. The mayor is the executive. The City Council is a legislative branch. The council passes laws, determines zones and exceptions and so forth. Depending on the city structure the mayor may or may not have a veto power over the city council. (In my city, the mayor does)
In other cities there is no mayor. There may only be a City Council. Or there may be a city manager.
Or, the city may be arranged as you mentioned, with the mayor is chairman of the council. There is no standard; nor any right or wrong way to do it.
All of which doesn't answer this topic on whether the Master is only a council member or has power separate from the council.
Let me apologize. Looking back at your comment I replied to: I misread it. I thought you said that it was understood that the Death Star traveled in hyperspace for decades; not, as you obviously meant, that for decades it has been understood that the Death Star travels in Hyperspace.
I was quite tired when I read your comment; it had been a long day and obviously I flipped your meaning.
Sorry.
What? So Luke is actually 38 or 40 when the Death Star reaches Yavin? After all, it only takes hours, maybe a day for the Falcon to reach it. That makes no sense at all. It becomes a useless weapon to terrorize anyone.
I've never hear anyone ever say the Death Stars travel through hyperspace for decades.
And re-examining your post, you may be coming from the same place I do.
Not at all. Some of us consider it fun to figure out the logistics and implications of what an author or filmmaker creates. Most (and I repeat most) don't take it too seriously, though we can argue (in the good and proper sense of argue) about it for hours. We don't take it as some horribly important, life or death issue. We don't slip away from reality and believe it is real. What we can do, for the fun of it, slide into the universe that has been created and examine it in its own frame of reference and by its own rules.
Checking around a bit it seems the most common explanation is that light speed is a reverse scale where the higher the number the slower the ship. The scale is asymptotic. So a ship that can travel .5 beyond light speed is twice as fast as a ship that travels 1.0 beyond light speed. And so forth.
Yes, this is a retcon. But the simple fact is that, in universe, ships can travel between stars in reasonable amounts of time: that is hours or, at most, days; and not many of those.
Regardless of what Lucas was thinking, or not thinking, .5 past light speed (and he never says 1.5 times the speed of light or .5 past the speed of light), Star Wars ships, if they are capable of hyperdrive flight, travel far faster than the speed of light.
Now, keep in mind, Lucas probably didn't think about this at all. It is very much like Star Trek where the original canon answer to warp speed was the cube of the rating. So Warp 1 is the speed of light. Warp 2 is 8 times the speed of light (2 cubed), warp 3 is 27 times the speed of light and so forth. The top common speed by TNG would be warp 8 or 512 times the speed of light. So at warp 2 the time to travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri would be about 45 days. At warp 8 it would be 0.7 days. Very impressive, but it often doesn't match up to travel times listed in episodes.
It certainly is not. You have not idea what scale it is using: geometric, logarithmic, exponential? None at all. We only know it is fast, at least according to Han Solo. Since the stars look normal in every shot we see we have to assume that they are normally distributed; so the nearest star to any star is likely to be 2 -5 light years away. That is simply not going to work.
>>>Neville had just destroyed Voldemort's last Horcrux, and yes, Voldy was peeved, but he didn't seem as upset as you'd expect him to be for having a piece of his soul destroyed and being returned to mortality. <<<
One of the things that were different in the films than in the books: in the books, Voldemort never felt when one of the horcruxes was destroyed. Its been a long time since I read them, but going into the final battle the only horcrux he knew was destroyed was the book. So he would have been upset that Nagini was killed, but he didn't realize that all the others were gone too and he was now mortal.
I apologize. I read it as a direct response to me. But your interpretation makes more sense. Taranrod, I especially apologize to you.
So that just shows that other people do know them. Pretty much any of the sports celebrities other than Figure Skating would be completely unknown to me. That doesn't mean they aren't celebrities and well known in their circles. I have no doubt the gamer/internet guy is very well known to the people into online gaming. I wouldn't know him from Adam, but that doesn't mean he isn't well known to gamers.
I think a wide range of celebrities from many fields is a good thing. Even if you don't know them, it might prompt you to research them and maybe develop a new interest.
(the you's in that last paragraph are generic and not to be interpreted as being aimed specifically at zaq123 or any other poster.)
Why? Because you didn't know them?