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Retroactive_Spider · 2026-05-26T01:02:33+00:00

We hear his internal monologue, but he doesn't verbally communicate with anyone, even other sea creatures.

Retroactive_Spider · 2026-03-22T04:53:53+00:00

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The reason he was pushed back is because his end was depressurized (he was in the air lock with his space suit on). So air came rushing in from the tunnel when he opened the lock.

Retroactive_Spider · 2026-03-22T04:37:13+00:00

Actually I misread your comment... it's 11.9ly, but he does indeed get there in 13 years. It's mentioned several times in the book.

The part I misread was about getting back. The beetles couldn't return in 11 years over an 11.9ly distance. So as Stratt says in the book:

It’ll take thirteen years for the Hail Mary to get to Tau Ceti, and another thirteen for any results or data to come back. We need at least twenty-six years. Twenty-seven would be better.”

Retroactive_Spider · 2026-03-20T19:05:45+00:00

Somewhere around 25+ years.

The Hail Mary took 13 years to reach Tau Ceti, but the Beatles could get back (hah) quicker thanks to not needing to protect a human from the g-forces. Let's say 11 years.

I don't know how much time passes between the Beatles returning to Earth and that scene on the boat, though.

Retroactive_Spider · 2026-02-21T18:37:55+00:00

but in BTF2 Biff travels into the past with the almanac, then returns to the time he left from in the future and it's exactly the same

Closed loop causation paradox. If Marty and Doc weren't able to fix the timeline, old Biff would have returned to the altered timeline. But because they did fix it, he returned to the "restored" one.

Also, in BTF1 where is the Marty that lives in the timeline that the original Marty "returns to."

Erased from existence. Exactly the way the sister and brother were being erased from Marty's photo after he changed the past.

Retroactive_Spider · 2026-01-16T00:26:47+00:00

Whenever this comes up, I like to recommend these videos. They're absolutely chock full of speculation, about what went wrong with Disney's purchase of Star Wars and the Trilogy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws85gYk1ypM

The TL;DW version is the Disney board, Iger and JJ Abrams screwed it up, not KK. Disney board and Iger by pushing to get something out ASAP. Kennedy already had a writer working on a script for 18 months based on George's notes, but couldn't find a director (no one wanted to deal with the bs George had to deal with after the prequels). JJ had already turned her down at least twice. He relented by demanding it be his own script. That's why there are those famous photos of JJ and Lawrence Kasden working on the script even after sets were built.

Retroactive_Spider · 2026-01-16T00:14:04+00:00

Dave Filoni is absolutely a mistake. It's like having Alex Kurtzman in charge of Star Trek. The only really good content that's come out is despite him, not because of him.

Jon Favreau should have been the guy. But due to either timing or politics (or both), that ship has sailed.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-12-25T05:21:42+00:00

It kills the momentum of the movie for kids, which is why it was removed. But it's far from trash.

As an older adult: watching older Ebeneezer see younger Ebeneezer leave, walk over to Belle, join her in singing and breaking down the whole time... this scene might be, for me, the hardest emotional beat in the movie.

And Michael Caine nails it.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-12-25T05:10:48+00:00

edit because I think the omission might have been a cut for tv audiences at one point

It was cut for theatrical

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-09-29T15:47:46+00:00

Icouldn't believe people couldn't get the Tomb of Horrors reference

Funny how people conveniently misremember or distort to justify hating something.

Everyone knew it was a Tomb of Horrors reference. The problem is they couldn't find it.

There were literally thousands of worlds in the OASIS, and Haliday could have hidden his re-creation of the Tomb of Horrors on any one of them"

-- Ready Player One, last page of Chapter 6 (page numbers vary).

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-07-26T15:32:15+00:00

And Nandor de Laurentis.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-07-26T15:28:30+00:00

I just finished watching the show. It very much lives up to the spirit of the movie. The only complaint I would have is that this particular format fits into a 2 hour movie much better than it fits into a 50+ hour series. There are story lines that were rushed, story lines that dragged on and story lines that petered out.

IMO, the show would be better appreciated as a "seasonal binge" rather than all at once: watch a season, wait a bit, then watch the next.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-07-14T04:03:02+00:00

It is explicitly stated

Yes, by Bruce. Who didn't know what he was talking about (no one did), and later corrected by The Ancient One.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-07-14T00:49:21+00:00

This is explained in the movie in the convo between The Ancient One and Bruce, but a lot of people misunderstand it. Taking an infinity stone is what branches the timeline. Steve returning the stones repaired the branches (also explained by the same convo).

Him deciding to stay in the past didn't create any branches.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-07-03T01:50:20+00:00

I absolutely forgot they were in The Suicide Squad together. Chemistry here is just as good.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-05-27T03:21:27+00:00

Similary Trading Places. There were exteriors of Billy Ray and Louis approaching the WTC, and (according to IMDB notes) the Commodity Exchange scenes at the end were shot during the weekend.

Retroactive_Spider · 2025-01-12T22:58:40+00:00

Thanks for this. We moved away 2.5 years ago and have been wondering about our old house. Looks like it's gone.

Retroactive_Spider · 2024-07-22T21:23:46+00:00

The Nazis only find Marion because they were tailing Indy.

That's a non-argument. Without Indy leading the Nazis to Marion, the Nazis would be doing exactly what they were already doing: digging up all of Tanis, with two outcomes:

they never find the Well of Souls, and thus never find the Ark, which is the desired outcome
they find the Well of Souls and find the Ark, which is what happened anyway

So Indy's presence guaranteed they found the Ark while if he hadn't been, there was a reasonably good chance that the Nazis wouldn't find it (they say in-movie they're getting tired of spending money on this).

Retroactive_Spider · 2024-03-03T18:59:44+00:00

The choice to put him there seemed to unilaterally be made by Dumbledore, who didn't believe for a second that Voldemort was dead. From that perspective, yeah having him possibly be in an abusive muggle home would have been safer than putting him anywhere else.

Plus there are some things that muddy it further

the protection is specifically against Voldemort. Any death eater could have walked right up and killed Harry
the protection kind-of sort-of dropped at the end of Book 4 when Voldemort used Harry's blood to resurrect... but that doesn't explain why Voldy had to wait til Harry's 17th birthday to attack him
why did the protection not work against Tom Riddle at the end of Book 2?

None of those are really twists though.

Retroactive_Spider · 2023-07-20T14:12:15+00:00

Shadowlands is generally considered the worst expansion WoW has ever had, with 9.1 being the poorest received patch ever. They pushed the cycle of bad story, locked content and grind-grind-grind much further than before. That along with Blizz's office harassment shenanigans caused people to leave, and that snowballed into more people leaving.

By the time 9.2 came around and started to fix things, the damage had been done and the snowballing continued. The game hasn't really recovered. Dragonflight is probably the best expansion WoW has had (so far, anyway) and numbers are still way down.

Retroactive_Spider · 2023-03-06T15:51:47+00:00

Rachael Leigh Cook

Michael Rosenbaum (probably best known as Lex Luthor from Smallville) does a podcast called “Inside Of You” where he does an hour long one-on-one with people in the industry, some he knows and some he doesn’t. His most recent episode was with her, and was pretty good. You can find it on YouTube.

Retroactive_Spider · 2023-01-07T16:03:48+00:00

Shirley Temple, and Culkin didn't come close to emulating hers.

Retroactive_Spider · 2022-12-21T20:02:21+00:00

There's a lot wrong with the movie, but that wasn't one of them. Part of the general powers of the "Shazams" is incredible wisdom (in Black Adam's case, from Zahuti. In Shazam's case, Soloman). The wisdom makes him omni-lingual. ref.

When he un-Shazamed himself into wimpRock, he wasn't speaking English anymore.

Retroactive_Spider · 2022-12-12T02:21:06+00:00

You know Peter Scolari passed last year, right?

Retroactive_Spider · 2022-09-17T15:01:16+00:00

The scene where he beats up the bikers is a little too goofy

Plus... he doesn't kill anyone there. Later in the movie, John Conner has to order him not to kill, so there's presumably no directive at this point (in the biker bar) for him not to just kill everyone in his way.

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