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>>>This kind of goofing around with phrases can ring true in real life but for it work in a movie it would need to be much better communicated than it is here.<<<
Since I've never heard anyone else pointing it out, and since it works for me, I think it worked fine. You can over-analyze things to the point of ridiculousness.
Even if they were divorced he likely would have gotten the kids. He's still their father. Unless there was something on record implying he was an unfit father the courts would have given him custody.
There are likely so many versions we will never know the original. It is also likely that the curse is worded differently in most of them.
Very late reply, but you are wrong. She would prick her finger before the sun set on her 16th birthday. That doesn't mean during the 24 hours of her 16th birthday. It means from the day of her birth until the sun sets on her 16th birthday.
Look at the words. If Maleficent had found her before that day and hour, she would cause Aurora to prick her finger.
Three seasons in and your just now complaining?
I'm afraid I cannot agree. But we obviously have different perceptions here, so I see no reason to pursue it.
No, actually it can't. Superman has had humorous periods, but it was never the base of the character. Captain Marvel/Shazam always had a humorous base and intent from its very beginnings. And has maintained that for decades. I haven't read comics since the latter 80's with any regularity; but while I was the humorous aspect was central to the strip.
In the show, Branch decided that she was too passionate towards defendants. He said defense attorneys should be hot blooded, but prosecutors should be cold blooded.
Yeah, and every problem could be solved with a "simple" law.
I know of no wedding that would allow complete strangers to just wander in. It is true that churches are open to prayer. (And Catholics have Perpetual Adoration, which would likely be someone unknown to the wedding couple). But most people, except Perpetual Adorers, would remove themselves from a wedding they were not invited to.
This is something like the folks who say an officer should just shoot a suspect wielding a gun or other weapon in the leg or shoot the gun out of their hands. They don't understand how difficult either of these shots would be.
Yes. Pity they wouldn't be invented until 10,000 or so years later.
Captain Marvel/Shazam predates Big by several decades. Yes, it was always humorous. It was not slapstick, but it never took itself seriously. With villains like Mr. Mind (a worm) and fellow Marvel family members Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr. and Uncle Marvel (who was a fraud who blamed his inability to help on his Shazambago!) and other characters like Talky Tawny, a talking tiger, a dead serious film would not live up to the original comic.
They did explain it. He had almost escaped before. He was brilliant.
Your statement that he escaped because his captors were incompetent is ridiculous. He switched out his pills. When he left his room he adjusted the recordings so they saw him leave and goof off, but not that he stole the focusing mirrors from the machine for the mysterious "procedure" or that he had gone and talked to the horde.
He killed Dylan by breaking the glass in his pictures. He probably shouldn't have been allowed them, I agree. He purposely went through the tunnels to get access to the computers to arrange the video streaming.
He arranged the entire escape, manipulated the Horde and David specifically so he could reveal themselves to the world.
He should have been sedated. (though I don't agree that they should have been keeping these people secret.)
We would find it unusual. However, two things:
Do not apply human propensities to another species. What may seem odd to us may be completely normal to them.
Also, we know the written records of this civilization go back at least 3000 years. The planet may have had another name (or several if the likely pattern of many languages occurred there). Since it seems (by what clues we can discern in the episode) that the planet now has a world government. It could be posited that the several/many civilizations decided to use the terminology Regor 2 rather than choose one of the many names that existed. (Of course, there would also be the thought that the sun would have many names as well.)
I know you don't believe it. But it is accurate. I've met people who haven't heard of other popular and well known characters. Just because something has a devoted fan base doesn't mean anyone else notices or cares.
As I said, I had never heard of it. I've been attending SF conventions since 1981. I've been reading it since 1963. I had never talked to anyone who had ever heard of it. I have no doubt that there was a devoted fan group in the US. That doesn't prove, or even imply, that Suzanne Collins had ever heard of it.
And this doesn't even get into the discussion that there was nothing new in Battle Royale.
>>>>i understand that in the 60s people werent used to horror and fiction as much as we are nowadays,<<<<
A very typical comment from someone growing up in the modern age. While gratuitous bloodletting was not common then we had plenty of horror and fiction. The claim that we didn't is simply ludicrous. Ghost stories, stories of vampires, werewolves and other creatures had been around for centuries. Horror in film had a grand tradition stretching back to beginning of the 20th century: Nosferatu, Dracula, the Wolfman, the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Phantom Carriage and so forth.
It is a conceit common to youths (and this applies throughout history) that they are more sophisticated, worldly and knowledgeable than parents were. And parents suffer the conceit that youth are violent, ungrateful and ignorant. Neither is true, but we all suffer from it.
That type of alien is still the cheapest and easiest thing to do. And Orville has been good about pushing those boundaries. Quite of few of the humanoid aliens have faces that depart a lot from the "ridges on the forehead" aliens that are so typical. And there are Lt. Unk and Yaphit that depart a lot.
Okay, the terminology Regor 2 does not refer to another planet Regor; at least in most SF series. It would normally refer to what planet it is in the system. So Regor 1 would be the planet closest to the star, which would be called Regor. Regor 2 is the 2nd, and so forth.
For instance in our own solar system, our sun's name is generally listed as Sol.
So Sol 1 is Mercury
Sol 2 is Venus
Sol 3 is Earth
Sol 4 is Mars
and so forth. Now, I will admit that referring themselves as Regorians would be unusual. But I have seen stories (don't ask me to list them. I read them years ago.) that have referred to us as Solarians.
Actually, they don't. Strongest can be the most powerful or it can refer to the overall quality of the character. A physically weak, helpless character can be a strong character. A character who can destroy suns can be a weak character.
So, the OP could have been more specified which he meant. However, the context of his post made it clear which use of strong and weak he meant.