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Post by CMWaters on Sept 9, 2022 10:52:57 GMT -5
And what happened to Hermione's ability to time travel? She lost her Flux Capacitor. ...wait, may be mixing things up here...
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Post by Kalmia on Sept 9, 2022 11:06:55 GMT -5
And what happened to Hermione's ability to time travel? She was only given the time turner to attend her classes so she gave it back. The use of them was very highly regulated and then all the time turners were conveniently destroyed during the fight at the Department of Mysteries. Until one was found down the back of a sofa somewhere for the Cursed Child play.
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Post by schma on Sept 9, 2022 14:54:14 GMT -5
The Alien wiki says they’re partially feeding off of the hosts they inhabit. They’re pretty much parasites, a sort of bio-robotic take on that. Still no possible way it could work. For the alien to grow after chestbursting it has to have the mass to grow. So it either has to be eating something or it has to have the mass built up before bursting. Basically like it supercompresses mass like air in a SCUBA tank. But then that would mean before bursting the host would have the equivalent weight of a full grown alien in their chest. Even if an alien weighs roughly the same as its host thats a 200 pound ish weight in your chest. And unless the host is consuming a massive amount of food before it bursts then the alien would have had to consume most of the hosts body to have that kind of mass. This is assuming their biology works the same as an Earth creature's. Keep in mind, these things bleed highly corrosive acid. There's not really an analogue on Earth to them.
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Sept 9, 2022 15:18:31 GMT -5
The Dark Knight, Coleman Reese tells everyone “ I know who Batman is!” Really? And nobody forced him later to say who Batman was? The mafia didn’t kidnap one of his kids and hold them for ransom? The police or the government didn’t send him down to Gitmo for a 4 am water boarding? Somebody was going to force him to talk sooner or later.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Sept 9, 2022 15:32:59 GMT -5
Still no possible way it could work. For the alien to grow after chestbursting it has to have the mass to grow. So it either has to be eating something or it has to have the mass built up before bursting. Basically like it supercompresses mass like air in a SCUBA tank. But then that would mean before bursting the host would have the equivalent weight of a full grown alien in their chest. Even if an alien weighs roughly the same as its host thats a 200 pound ish weight in your chest. And unless the host is consuming a massive amount of food before it bursts then the alien would have had to consume most of the hosts body to have that kind of mass. This is assuming their biology works the same as an Earth creature's. Keep in mind, these things bleed highly corrosive acid. There's not really an analogue on Earth to them. They still have to obey the laws of physics. To grow from a small creature light enough to be in a mans chest and not be noticed to a large creature the weight of a man (at least) there has to be a source of mass. Thats why we eat as we grow. It is easy to explain they just never have to my knowledge. They could have eaten the ships food stores as in the original script. They could use acid to break down and consume inorganic matter. But there has to be some kind of absorbing of mass. Unless you say they are drawing it from another dimension or something then it just becomes magic.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 9, 2022 16:46:29 GMT -5
Hot Fuzz {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The major twist was that a tidy town committee was murdering anyone that was arrested or threatened to ruin the clean image of the town and hiding their bodies.
The thing that doesn't make sense was... Where were the victim’s families? Yeah I know the NWA would have covered it up... But there were kids among their victims.. Nobody, not even their parents are going to notice three teenaged boys have suddenly disappeared without a trace. Nobody came looking for them
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 10, 2022 5:24:16 GMT -5
Hot Fuzz {Spoiler}The major twist was that a tidy town committee was murdering anyone that was arrested or threatened to ruin the clean image of the town and hiding their bodies.
The thing that doesn't make sense was... Where were the victim’s families? Yeah I know the NWA would have covered it up... But there were kids among their victims.. Nobody, not even their parents are going to notice three teenaged boys have suddenly disappeared without a trace. Nobody came looking for them It's heavily implied that every death committed by the NWA was covered up as an accident, so in my mind they came up with some convoluted story about how the kids died in some gruesome accident and the families accepted the explanation without asking to view the bodies.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 10, 2022 7:12:03 GMT -5
Hot Fuzz {Spoiler}{Spoiler}The major twist was that a tidy town committee was murdering anyone that was arrested or threatened to ruin the clean image of the town and hiding their bodies.
The thing that doesn't make sense was... Where were the victim’s families? Yeah I know the NWA would have covered it up... But there were kids among their victims.. Nobody, not even their parents are going to notice three teenaged boys have suddenly disappeared without a trace. Nobody came looking for them It's heavily implied that every death committed by the NWA was covered up as an accident, so in my mind they came up with some convoluted story about how the kids died in some gruesome accident and the families accepted the explanation without asking to view the bodies. Sorry, but there is no sane parent that will brush off the death of their child like that.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 10, 2022 7:40:29 GMT -5
Sorry, but there is no sane parent that will brush off the death of their child like that. It's a movie in which a grief-stricken village police chief convinces a dozen or so influential members of his local community to form a decades-long conspiracy in which a key element is murdering people for the flimsiest of reasons in order to win the annual best village competition. Nothing about the world of Hot Fuzz is sane.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 10, 2022 8:17:05 GMT -5
Yeah. That's one that makes no sense. At least with Avengers and X-Men level threats the heroes have planes and can fly to other places in the world. Spider-Man and Daredevil's foes can just rob a bank in a town 100 miles away. I believe Shocker did that. He went to Jersey and realized he was a big fish in a small pond there Shocker Takes New Jersey seems like it would have been ripe material for a comedy issue back in the day. Just pages of Shocker committing all kinds of crime and Spider-Man and his amazing friends going, “Sorry wrong zip code.”
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Post by schma on Sept 10, 2022 8:33:34 GMT -5
I believe Shocker did that. He went to Jersey and realized he was a big fish in a small pond there Shocker Takes New Jersey seems like it would have been ripe material for a comedy issue back in the day. Just pages of Shocker committing all kinds of crime and Spider-Man and his amazing friends going, “Sorry wrong zip code.” There was a storyline where he tried to convince Ms Marvel they should become nemeses since she's based in Jersey.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Sept 10, 2022 9:51:12 GMT -5
I couldn't really give a shit now because f*** JKR but In the Harry Potter movies nobody uses a mobile phone, ever I heard that the books establish wizards can't use modern tech, do the movies ever establish this? I believe they do, if nothing else there is Arthur Weasley's comic befuddlement about regular human muggle technology. It's really one of the stupid parts about Harry Potter, culminating in the "Wizards didn't have plumbing they just magicked their crap away" stuff. I've always felt like, even her becoming a bigot overnight, JK Rowling was always going to have a short shelf life because she's simply a very mediocre writer. Her attempts at post-book world building exposed that, perhaps culminating in the "wizards shitting themselves" anecdote up top. Speaking of which, while we're on the subject of Harry Potter stuff that doesn't make sense: why does Slytherin House still exist? It would seem, in the House's entire history, it has produced exactly two not evil wizards (Merlin and Horace Slughorn), as opposed to about 98-99% of all Death Eaters. It is basically a terrorist cell at this point. How are they not under constant surveillance at this point? At the very least, getting sorted into Slytherin House should trigger a mandatory psych evaluation. Or, you know, maybe the Slytherins could've just been written with an ounce of nuance, but what do I know, I don't live in a castle bought with my book and movie sales.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 10, 2022 9:57:13 GMT -5
I believe Shocker did that. He went to Jersey and realized he was a big fish in a small pond there Shocker Takes New Jersey seems like it would have been ripe material for a comedy issue back in the day. Just pages of Shocker committing all kinds of crime and Spider-Man and his amazing friends going, “Sorry wrong zip code.” "I told you....YOUUUUU CAN'T ESCAPE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"Fixed.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 10, 2022 10:24:06 GMT -5
I believe they do, if nothing else there is Arthur Weasley's comic befuddlement about regular human muggle technology. It's really one of the stupid parts about Harry Potter, culminating in the "Wizards didn't have plumbing they just magicked their crap away" stuff. I've always felt like, even her becoming a bigot overnight, JK Rowling was always going to have a short shelf life because she's simply a very mediocre writer. Her attempts at post-book world building exposed that, perhaps culminating in the "wizards shitting themselves" anecdote up top. Speaking of which, while we're on the subject of Harry Potter stuff that doesn't make sense: why does Slytherin House still exist? It would seem, in the House's entire history, it has produced exactly two not evil wizards (Merlin and Horace Slughorn), as opposed to about 98-99% of all Death Eaters. It is basically a terrorist cell at this point. How are they not under constant surveillance at this point? At the very least, getting sorted into Slytherin House should trigger a mandatory psych evaluation. Or, you know, maybe the Slytherins could've just been written with an ounce of nuance, but what do I know, I don't live in a castle bought with my book and movie sales. Slytherins do have some nuance. Even the Malfoys eventually had enough of Voldemort's shit. I think once Voldemort died, the vein of extremism in the house would fade.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 10, 2022 13:47:52 GMT -5
Shocker Takes New Jersey seems like it would have been ripe material for a comedy issue back in the day. Just pages of Shocker committing all kinds of crime and Spider-Man and his amazing friends going, “Sorry wrong zip code.” There was a storyline where he tried to convince Ms Marvel they should become nemeses since she's based in Jersey. Yep found a Reddit thread that posted this exchange: Also, this is kind of the opposite of what this thread is about (makes perfect sense in kayfabe), but that led me down a rabbit hole where I found this exchange which I thought was great:
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 10, 2022 17:02:26 GMT -5
There was a storyline where he tried to convince Ms Marvel they should become nemeses since she's based in Jersey. Yep found a Reddit thread that posted this exchange: Also, this is kind of the opposite of what this thread is about (makes perfect sense in kayfabe), but that led me down a rabbit hole where I found this exchange which I thought was great: Do you have the next page of that second picture? Curious who they were talking about after The Punisher.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 10, 2022 17:08:46 GMT -5
Yep found a Reddit thread that posted this exchange: Also, this is kind of the opposite of what this thread is about (makes perfect sense in kayfabe), but that led me down a rabbit hole where I found this exchange which I thought was great: Do you have the next page of that second picture? Curious who they were talking about after The Punisher. Unfortunately I don’t have it, it’s just what someone posted on Reddit.
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Post by chrom on Sept 10, 2022 17:48:18 GMT -5
Even if they don't have cell phones they could still have telephones at their homes they could use to contact with each other.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 10, 2022 20:00:04 GMT -5
James Bond makes no effort to disguise his appearance and shares his real name freely, despite the fact that every time he travels he kills a bunch of people and blows something up.
Every customs desk in the world would have a notice saying “don’t let this guy in!”
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Post by CMWaters on Sept 10, 2022 20:06:39 GMT -5
James Bond makes no effort to disguise his appearance and shares his real name freely, despite the fact that every time he travels he kills a bunch of people and blows something up. Every customs desk in the world would have a notice saying “don’t let this guy in!” 1)License to kill. 2)Someone explained to a comic reviewer one time that using the real name actually does make sense, as it's something less for a spy to have to remember in the field, and possibly slip up on.
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