New answers tagged plot-explanation
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In the 3rd episode of season 3 "Walk of Punishment" it was revealed that Edmure Tully (the uncle of King Robb Stark) disobeyed orders and attacked Gregor Clegane. Edumre won the battle and Gregor fled, but Edmure was able to capture some hostages including Willem and Martyn Lannister. We never see the battle, but it is discussed when King Robb chastises his ...
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During the scene where Tony has the surgery, you can see a miniature ARC reactor and some gadgets above Tony. As the surgeon removes a piece of shrapnel, he releases it and it flies up to the gadget. So Tony and the surgeon built an electromagnetic device to help out with the surgery. The eagle-eyed will also notice that when they show Pepper and Rhodey ...
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My theory goes with the assumption that He could have removed the shrapnel at any time after coming back to the States
Bear with me.
Imagine, you're Tony Stark. You're told by a genius scientist that he can't remove a piece of shrapnel due to sterilization and equipment purposes.
You become dependent upon the mini-arc reactor that you put inside your ...
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Julia was in Delta sleep for 60 years. She might have been pregnant before Delta sleep. Delta sleep apparantly halts aging and embrionic growth, until the person wakes up again.
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He's angry because he's conflicted and he's conflicted because he lives in a "Cursed City" on a "Cursed Earth," festering with savages and animals and he is tasked with judging and sentencing them all, which he does to the T, even for minor infractions like placing a vagrant in an iso-cube for 3 weeks (even though he never gets around to doing it). Deep ...
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Actually, my take on it was that while she acknowledged she technically failed, she ultimately turned in her badge because she couldn't handle the questionable ethics and the emotional intensity of the job. Case in point: she executes one of the Ma-Ma clan members who was begging for his life, then later discovers he was the husband and father of a Peach ...
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I've read the book, though I haven't seen the movie. The book pretends to be based on a true story with a scene where the author goes to interview the grown up Pi. An amazing job is done with the characterization in the book, so much that it is my favorite part-more than any of the dramatic events. Because of this, I don't think that it's about ...
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The key to Peter's ability is that he must be empathetic to the person in order to access their ability. Hence the powers name of Empathic Mimicry
Seeing as Peter never had anything in common with Sylar and actually rued his existence, he could never be empathetic with him enough to absorb his ability.
It wasn't until Peter was desperate enough to need ...
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You should pay more attention! :-P
John Doe explains each of the sins he's done up until now in the car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS4EJGh9mIg#t=0m30s
(PRIDE: The model is given a choice after having her face mutilated. Phone an ambulance or take an overdose. Her pride makes her take an overdose.)
He has two left by that time, Envy and Pride.
ENVY: ...
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English Bob alludes to the fact that Little Bill was a drunkard and (by implication) an outlaw. They definitely crossed paths before but it is not indicated whether it was adversarial. Little Bill refers to Bob and himself as rare examples of "dangerous men" - men who can remain cool under pressure and kill without hesitation or remorse. These two and ...
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Billy is lying. There is a chance that he did say somethings to Hans while doing a Myra impression but Hans described a vision not just a conversation. So I don't think that Billy ever said anything to him. Billy has one good trait. He is a good friend. When seeing Hans in turmoil and doubting his lifelong faith he lies to Hans. Another clue that he is ...
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The movie does not provide an answer to this question.
When Vincent Vega asks Mia Wallace what really happened, she says something to the effect of "that's between Marcellus and Tony Rocky Horror," and leaves it at that.
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I think John Lasseter forgot to put Andy's dad in the movie and that why Andy's moms in the movies 1,2 and 3. Therefor if there's a toy story 4 Mr lassater should put Andy's father in for Andy's graduation or something.
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The way the director wants to present it is that this really could be happening and the hinges that he is a human is just the stuff that the sceptics (most of us) feed off as an excuse that it's just a scam. The way I see it though is that he really is a K-PAXian and posseses a body in order to live and travel to/from earth (Robert's body on the way to earth ...
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Hans: My wife is sitting on a chair someplace. Some gray place. I
thought she'd be in Heaven, but she's sitting on a chair with a bullet
in her head. I thought they'd have cleaned that kind of stuff up.
Marty: Maybe you've just eaten too many hallucinogenic cactuses
tonight, Hans.
Hans: Nothing to do with the hallucinogens.
Marty: But ...
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The Deadly Assassin (1976) is the first time any limitation on the process is mentioned, and it becomes a major plot point in almost all stories dealing with The Master from that point forward, including in the 1996 attempt to revive the series.
However...all of that predates the Last Great Time War.
The modern series has yet to nail down any limitation on ...
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We were previously shown that those altered by Extremis aren't immortal. Tony killed one on the airplane by blasting out his heart. I think the assumption in that situation is that without a heart to feed blood to the rest of your body you'll die.
When Killian was blown up the first time, he took a lot of damage, but it seems that his body mostly stayed ...
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I haven't seen the movie, but I am a pilot.
If the severe turbulence is caused by a lightning cell, no aircraft can withstand its severe alternating updrafts and downdrafts which typically break off wings, rudder, tail, and probably bust up the fuselage. Any maneuver which can be done to exit it soon is sensible—especially considering the ...
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I was trying to figure out the same thing. Maybe it is a sort of "therapy" for her. The only explanation is that his father didn't close Charlie's phone account; therefore, she is still able to call Charlie. Charlie definitely died last season.
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It is unknown if Omar is, but you can sense that Omar never expected Tony to survive the deal.
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This scene is illustrating the Buck "Rogers" Compton is shell-shocked. This is now know as PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since I don't know Compton personally, I can only guess that his trauma relates to his experiences from D-Day through Carentan. This scene to me is meant to convey that the cost of war isn't measured in dollars. It also conveys that ...
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The distance from Miami to the Bahamas is 187 miles. There are at least two companies that currently offer day trip excursions to the Bahamas by boat.
As for the passport question; since the movie is supposed to take place in 1995 it was perfectly okay to travel to the Bahamas from the USA without a passport at that time. The rules requiring entry with a ...
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Better question, why does a programmed clone need a fake wife, fake house, and fake central command to repair drones? When they sent 1000's of him to kill the remaining humans on earth, did they also send 1000's of wives and houses? So the evil machine can make him wipe out humanity, but not make him repair drones without a charade? I mean he could ...
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From inside Radagast's house you see shadows of spider attack, you see the legs of a spider break into the house before Radagast's magic seems to scare them off.
He emerges from the house and you clearly see giant spiders running away from the house.
So, contrary to the previous answers, I would say "yes" but it is brief and you don't see them fully.
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The first part of The Hobbit trilogy, An Unexpected Journey, does not involve the Giant Spiders. Going by the book, the second part, The Desolation of Smaug, very likely will.
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As far as I remember, no you don't actually see the spiders, they're just alluded to via shadows and such.
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It may be the case that demon is cunning and want to make a doubt in the mind of the Karras, already having lack of faith in Demons and ghosts. As we have seen that Demon plays with Karras's emotion related to his mother too.
Demon read on mind and emotions so its not possible that he got fooled by tap water at all.
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Roger Ebert made the following two comments. This is from his original review:
I loved the moment near the end when Bob runs after Charlotte and says something in her ear, and we're not allowed to hear it.
We shouldn't be allowed to hear it. It's between them, and by this point in the movie, they've become real enough to deserve their privacy.
This ...
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Just as the ritual is rigged against the kids (they're forced into playing archetypal roles and making fatal decisions via drugs and subliminals), it's rigged against the facility workers. I think the button only exists for a survivor to push; if they make it that far, they must choose between self sacrifice or self interest (which dooms humanity). When the ...
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Yes, this happens in the episode - One Minute. When Walt's wife pursuades him to help Hank, Walt hatches up this plan to replace Gale with Jessie. Walt knew that Jessie was furious over what happened to him and a really big offer was needed to pacify him and let Hank go. Plus if Jessie works with him there is also lesser chances of him getting caught and ...
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Back when the rings needed to be charged every 24 hours, the rings had an emergency power reserve specifically to protect the bearer from mortal harm when their ring's regular charge ran out. (See Green Lantern v2 #46 (1966).)
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I assumed that he had arranged with his brother ahead of time that he would walk her home and ask to come in for tea and to then find an excuse not to in order to 'appear' inside.
Either she would decline or he would adlib a different reason not to go in through the door with her.
Magicians are usually very good at adlibbing under pressure.
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Excellent question, you raise here. The only trick Borden knew was using his other twin brother. So it is expected that he used his brother. But it is possible that Borden wanted to pick that girl and so after his performance was over, he instructed his brother to enter her house. But again one can argue then how did he know that heir conversation was ...
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I don't have any references to point to, but my original thought was that a large part of Lt. Hicox's German had come from watching German films. The gaps in his cultural knowledge were the result of his lack of exposure to native speakers.
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I don't think the plot can be boiled down to simple hero/villain roles. The Man In Black broke the rules, and received a sort of punishment for that. Unfortunately, it was an eternal damnation sort of punishment, which is pretty disproportionate given his offense. But using his powers, he spent the millennia manipulating and killing people, so he's not an ...
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Well me and my wife both took German in high school and were taught by a native German. He told us the way that Germans count one with their thumb instead of with their fore finger. I always remembered this and she didn't. We both visited Germany through a student exchange program and became fluent in the language. While watching Inglorious Basterds I ...
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It has been quite a while since I have watched Lost so what I say may have holes. I believe the island is a sort of Limbo. So one can argue that Jacob could have been a god or deity and the Man in Black could have been his opposite, or at least they may have represented this. Dont think in terms of the traditional religion but think of in terms of religion ...
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I'd say this gesture was something so subtle and unconcious that it just falls below any cultural assimilation. He has "counted to three" in the "British way" all over his life and even excessive exposure to German native speakers and culture probably won't change such a highly non-descript and intuitive gesture. You can speak fluently in a language and be ...
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Extremis is a super-soldier solution. It's a bio-electronics package,
fitted into a few billion graphite nanotubes and suspended in a
carrier fluid. A magic bullet, like the original super-soldier
serum—all fitted into a single injection. It hacks the body's repair
center—the part of the brain that keeps a complete blue print of the
human body. ...
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Actually, the second time Pepper kicks a missile, possibly the "ex-wife", to Killians face. Adding that to the damage he took when the armor self-destructed, suposedly overloads his healing factor.
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They ended up in Verona's childhood home. As they drive up I believe she even says that it's as beautiful as she remembers it. I think when she goes inside, she's supposed to be behaving as if she hasn't been there in years (as her parents died when she was 22 and hasn't been there in a long time). Perhaps the the choices the actress made to portray that ...
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Other. This virus implanted by the laptop
The secure floor panels started popping up and Q said, "Why are those opening?" We were supposed to figure out, like Bond, that it also meant Silva's cell door was opening. Apparently since Silva knew it was going to happen it gave him the edge to use his mad skills and take out two armed guards.
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we see him "chem" twice on his journey so it seems he is double dosing so he hides his pack so he can say he lost them in order to get more,
So when Cross he virals off them, as he has no way of getting more pills detox was inevitable, and to detox with out the stem injections would have taken days/weeks the injection sends him in to rapid detox which ...
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I've always assumed it's because Gus knows that Victor was seen at the house -- remember that Victor and Mike had a conversation about the fact that he'd been seen (Mike was upset at it, and Victor didn't think it was that big of a deal). Gus isn't one to leave any possibility that he could be discovered by Victor's carelessness, so he knows it has to be ...
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Just before Gus kills Victor, Walt monologues about how Victor is not as good of a cook, how he needs Jesse alive to help him cook, etc
Gus's subsequent actions act as a punishment to Victor for being substandard, while simultaneously yet silently "accepting" Walt's request to leave Jesse alive.
The act of Gus slicing Victor's throat demonstrates his ...
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Blackwood needed to be arrested and 'killed' so that the public would be aware and afraid of him. Once the public found out about it his reputation would go before him and others, including senior members of the Houses of Parliament, would be more susceptible to blackmail. To be publicly executed he would need to commit a crime to go with his air of magic so ...
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All part of Iron-man's suit act like a robot in itself. So its possible for jarvis to control one body part (glove) to act differently than the other Iron-man parts. It never said that the new Iron-man suit can only attract to Tonny. If you know correctly then he made to send the suit to Pepper to protect her. So it seems possible to me.
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They did have the technology but then who would fix the repair drones?...It could be that the 'scavs' would just shoot down a drone and bait a repair drone so they can ambush it and shoot that down...and so on. If you have a human being, he can get killed and replaced much more easily I think than building a new repair drone (genetics takes care of ...
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This answer is from the comics, as they don't show it in the movie. In the comics, classic Green Lantern had to recharge the ring every 24 hours. This (and a weakness to yellow objects) was his kryptonite; that crucial weakness that prevents him from being an invincible god. So, it would be common for fights to go longer than Hal expected, resulting in ...
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It's definitely the KGB logo:
That little picture on the left is the pin, on the right is the KGB logo from Wikipedia. During the scene, she's being inducted into Directorate S. Some Googling lead me to this paper, part of the Cold War International History Project Working Paper series:
Directorate S was the most important branch of intelligence, ...
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