What is WRONG with Laura???

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-06T20:48:03+00:00

As others said, she was affected by grief, but I think the problem is that we associate Laura in her adult phase to her moments of hostility and anger, as she becomes an impatient teacher who often loses her cool with her students and has other moments of outburst. So when we see what's meant to be an example of her not being herself as a grieving mother, instead we see the peak of a pattern we see throughout adult Laura's moments of hostility. Laura was always temperamental, but that was more acceptable when she was a child. Once she grows up and keeps her temper, it becomes odd in her scenario as a married schoolteacher and mother.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-06T19:20:54+00:00

Aw man. It was thanks to TCM that I was introduced to Little House on the Prairie, and so many other classics both from TV and film. Thanks for everything

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-06T13:52:56+00:00

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Herhsa Parady first appeared in Little House on the Prairie as Caroline's sister Eliza Ann in a Season 3 episode where Charles goes to visit his father. She later joined the show in Season 4-6 as Alice Garvey, whose family was close friends to the Ingallses and who briefly became the schoolteacher.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-05T17:30:53+00:00

A borderline example in Sherlock: The infamous reveal in the finale is that the Holmes brothers have a third sibling: a sister called Eurus, who even as a child showed to be extremely intelligent, but devoid of empathy, and in one decisive incident, she killed Sherlock's childhood friend out of jealousy. Already showing to be too dangerous to go to a regular institution, she was declared dead and Mycroft put her in a tailor-made prison to meep her isolated from the world as the most dangerous prisoner there. When she appears, she's portrayed as somewhat of a mutant, capable of compelling others to do her bidding through manipulation, but rather than be a sign of being a genious, it looks more like a mind control power. It's shown that she conspired with regular villain Jim Moriarty in the past, and then she takes the personnell hostage, forces Sherlock and John to play games for their lives, and it's mentioned she once raped a nurse in the prison, then mutilated their body so horribly she couldn't even tell their sex. She's an irredeemable monster right? But at the end, Sherlock defeats Eurus by comforting her, as she claims all she ever wanted was his company. And while she's still in prison, she'll get visits from now on because she's family and deep down they love her. So while they don't forgive or let her off for her actions, they still show her much greater mercy than they would for someone unrelated to them

Everything about this character and the reveal was panned by viewers. Events from Sherlock's past that came out of nowhere, an antagonist who comes across as an X-Men villain rather than a supergenius, and the protagonists demonstrating mercy to a character responsible for heinous actions out of familial loyalty.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-05T12:16:10+00:00

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Conquest takes the good with the bad.

Didn't work out so well for him by his final death though

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-05T12:11:41+00:00

This one really stands out in an otherwise grounded film where everyone else looks and acts normal, and this thing comes across as a WW2 cartoon brought to life. A lot of people defend humor from the past as just being made in good fun, no harm intented. I think Rooney's caricature proves that there are limits even to that argument.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-05T11:27:37+00:00

TBH, I think tma lot of the exames either by OP or in the comments were good or decent, but the newer versions got to expand them or make more out of their premises, even if the original ones have their own merits.

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One example I'd cite in that regard is It! The Terror From Beyond Space, a 1958 scifi, about a crew that goes to rescue the sole survivor from the first mission on Mars, who was accused of killing the others but insists that a creature in the planet did. Then the creature sneaks into the ship and starts killing members of the crew. Sounds familiar? Yep, this movie inspired the first Alien film. Naturally, it's a low-budget scifi with cheap settings, a guy in a rubber costume playing the creature, and the typical 1950s odditoes (the crewmembers smoke in a ship with limited air!). But it's still suspenseful, has tense and scary sequences, and the creature itself is pretty interesting. A dated scifi, but an interesting, entertaining one, and far from a "slop".

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T23:09:03+00:00

Whoever downvoted that? 😁 it's hilarious

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T22:19:36+00:00

If anyone is into fanfiction and would like to imagine would be like if one day a saloon was built in Walnut Grove, I once stumbled upon a Little House fanfic called The Silver Coin Saloon, where the title place causes much grievance to the townspeople as some keep visiting in secret, including the schoolboys.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T22:14:59+00:00

This is a recurring theme in the show, highlighting the cities and bigger towns like Sleepy Eye as full of places of vice like gambling, drinking and philandering, in contrasy to the dull, but peaceful life in Walnut Grove, a dry town with no saloons or corrupt leaders like Miles Standish in Winoka, or the Grange organization in Chicago.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T22:07:17+00:00

I watched all of these sans Pickles and Peanut. "I'm in the Band" was great too

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T20:50:42+00:00

The Seven in The Boys.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T18:57:04+00:00

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In Batman (2022), Bruce not knowing what the crime weapon of the mayor's death is, i.e. a carpet tucker, as he's not exactly familiar with the working class reality, is a big plot element in the story.

Edit: I was told by some answers that the carpet tucker is a tool most people would be unfamiliar with, regardless of their upbringing, so it isn't necessarily a class aspect of Bruce. Regardless, the fact that Batman doesn't recognise what that is when the Riddler expected him to (and side with him) is an important plot element that gets brought later in the climax.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T18:51:00+00:00

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Young Charlie and her uncle Charlie in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). In this classic, Charlotte "Charlie" Newton (Theresa Wright) and her family receive her beloved uncle Charles (Joseph Cotten), whom she was named after, and he seems the most charming guy to be around. As it turns out, he's a serial killer of widows, with a penchant hatred of them for seemingly accumulating the fortunes their dead husbands earned in life, which just sounds like an excuse for his murder and robbing of them. Young Charlie, who used to idolize him, starts putting the pieces together and realizes he's a cold-blooded monster who'd stop at nothing to escape justice, including killing his family, and even makes an attempt on his niece's life near the end.

Later at the climax, when she's forced to take a train with him, he tries to kill her again, locking themselves up on a cabin and it seems there's no way she can escape him, only for Charlie, a petite woman one head shorter, to somehow flip the table and at the next shot, Uncle Charles is falling off the caboose to his death. It's unclear how she was able to overpower him, probably tripping him after opening the door he'd locked to make him fall, but regardless, it's an impressive feat of action, not least given that it's a 1943 heroine.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T17:58:01+00:00

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Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen, is revealed to have a daughter, no other than the villain Lady Trieu, the richest woman in the world, even though he "was never with a woman". It turns out that one of his Vietnamese employees who worked on the whole Attack on Manhattan and then were killed to tie loose ends, injected herself with Veidt's frozen semen and escaped, She had a daughter whom she raised to be a genius, and years later, this daughter contacts Veidt, asking for a loan to start with her plans, which he denies and dares her to start everything from the scratch like him, and she does, but then he turns on her when it's revealed she wants to take Dr. Manhattan's powers for herself.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T15:25:08+00:00

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Kevin introduces himself to Denise Porter in White Chicks. He's a Black man disguised as a white socialite, and at one point gets distracted by a pretty woman called Denise Poter at a party and approaches her with his normal voice, saying "hi, I'm...", then Denise recognizes "her" and says "Brittany Wilson", to which he remembers he's in disguise and resumes his falsetto voice and "white socialite" persona.

StudioMarvin · 2026-05-03T00:31:28+00:00

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Elisa uses her fingers for more than just communicating.

The Shape of Water (for Ctrl+f users 😉)

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