Question: Why was Susan so upset with Benjamin after he left, and why is it she suddenly breaks down, cries, and pleads for him not to go away before he leaves again?
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Question: After Hank defeats Arlen Video in court, how is he able to buy the dryer machine so fast? He passes the credit check at the store. Wouldn't it take thirty days or more for the Arlen Video debt to disappear from his credit history? The time doesn't pass because Bobby still thinks that the dryer is an early birthday present.
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Question: Why doesn't the Bookaccino's book store accept their own gift certificates (per the sign outside)?
Question: According to the counsellor at Susanna's school, she is the only student who isn't going to college. In the 1960s, wasn't it still common for female students not to attend college? And also young men who came from low-income families? Surely Susanna would not be the only one.
Answer: In that era, college was less common for middle-class females and also males. However, the movie is based on author Susanna Kaysen's memoir. She was raised in an affluent, well-educated New England family and attended private schools. Girls from upper-class society generally attended college. Many attended a women's Ivy League school like Smith, Radcliffe, Wellesley, etc. A prevailing joke was that girls attended college for the "MRS" degree, meaning to find a husband. It was also typical that prominent professional men had educated, refined wives.
Question: Maybe I just missed it, but why did Nicky suddenly abandon Jess in New Orleans by asking the driver to take her to the airport while he gets into another car? When they meet again a few years later in Buenos Aires, he tries to explain himself to her, but she stops him.
Answer: He doesn't want a love complication.
Question: I don't see any motive for her to open the coffin, for which only she had the lock combo. Her motive was to find her daughter. Her daughter could not possibly have gotten into the coffin. This makes the plot too loose, in my opinion. It bothers me every time I try to re-watch the movie to find a reason why she would search the coffin. Or does the plot suggest here that she gave the combo to Julia, Julia somehow climbed down there, somehow found the coffin, opened it and climbed in? (00:59:10)
Answer: By this time, Kyle believed Julia was not hiding but forcibly taken. She is investigating every possible place, however improbable, where her daughter might be, including the casket on the off chance someone obtained the lock code or there was an alternate default code. As it turned out, the funeral home was in on the scheme. Kyle suspected Julia could be drugged or dead and her body hidden. Kyle's an aerospace engineer who's methodical, determined, detail-oriented, and a problem solver. After systematically eliminating one possibility, she moves on to others.
Question: To create a horcrux, a witch or wizard must first split their soul by intentionally and deliberately murdering someone without any guilt or remorse for their actions. Since Tom Riddle murdered countless people, shouldn't his soul have been split into more fragments rather than just seven?
Answer: The other answer is spot on, but I would add that it requires casting a specific spell while simultaneously killing someone to make horcrux and split one's soul. (The movie downplayed this and the spell name is never revealed in the book.) Professor Slughorn had told the young Tom Riddle that the act involved dark magic, though he did not provide details. Riddle apparently discovered what that dark spell was to make horcrux.
Answer: Next to the act of murder, one also has to purposefully turn an object into a horcrux in order to make a horcrux. Your soul splitting doesn't automatically send that piece of soul into an object; your soul will be split but still connected to your body. As for when Voldemort's killing curse rebounded onto Harry, his real body was destroyed, and his fragmented soul shattered because it was frail and unstable, causing a piece to detach and lodge onto Harry.
The question wasn't about how to make a Horcrux. It was about why each murder Tom committed didn't shatter his soul more. For example, if Tom killed 11,000 people, then shouldn't his soul have shattered into 11,000 pieces?
I think your soul splits when you kill someone, but doesn't split again when murdering someone else (which part would?). Once you murder, your soul is split and will stay split until you detach a part of your soul. It's not like Tom could have saved up on fragments of soul by killing and then put pieces of his soul into objects one after the other. He had to murder and then purposefully put that split part into an object, and only then be able to split his soul again with another murder.
To further clarify, according to J.K. Rowling, random killing damages a wizard's soul, but does not split it. That requires using Dark magic and deliberately storing the soul shard into a vessel, making it a horcrux. Riddle chose six significant objects for the horcruxes and left one soul piece in his body. When Riddle cast the Killing Curse at baby Harry, it rebounded and simultaneously destroyed Riddle's body and sheared off another soul piece. Harry's forehead scar was an accidental seventh horcrux that Riddle never knew existed. It was Lily Potter's love and sacrificing her life to save Harry that protected him from the killing curse.
The Bat Jar Conjecture - S1-E13
Question: The PMS team won a trophy for beating Sheldon's team, but at the beginning of the match, Dr. Gablehauser said it was a preliminary match. Would they really get a trophy for winning a preliminary game?
Question: The people are downsized at a cellular level. But unless that means changing DNA, doesn't that mean that children of the downsized would be normal sized? We're shown downsized babies, but would that actually happen?
Question: At the end of Part 3, when we see the police taking Chris out of the cabin and to one of the squad cars, it's the middle of the day. At the beginning of this film, however, when we see the police taking the dead bodies out of the cabin, it's the middle of the night. What's going on here? Would it really have taken them that long to collect all the bodies?
Answer: It is my understanding that this is due to a complete lack of resources and/or manpower. Being that the location Higgins' Haven is located in is such a small podunk town, it would generally take more than a few hours to rustle up the required personnel to assist in such a mass cleanup of a massacre such as the one we were witness to.
Question: All of the Rangers had lives prior to being called to duty, so why couldn't they continue their jobs, schooling, etc. even after they became Rangers?
Question: When Roy travels across the Martian landscape, he is in an enclosed buggy. Why aren't these used on the Moon, where they would offer greater protection?
Answer: Unlike the moon, Mars has an atmosphere, weather, and winds that can reach up to about 60 mph. Mars also has severe dust storms that quickly cover objects in a thick, gritty layer of toxic Martian soil. An enclosed rover protects the driver, equipment, and other sensitive instruments from the elements. This is actually a concern for when humans eventually colonize Mars.
Question: At what point did Davy and Delores become a couple? He shows no interest in her the entire film, but is dancing close with her during the last song.
Answer: The pictures of students jumping at the end are the graduating seniors. Deloris is not a senior.
Answer: Are you sure about that? I remember Dolores bringing in some young kid her own age. She says it never would have worked out between her and Michael. Everyone laughed. At the end of the movie, when everyone jumped in the air, they were paired off, except for Davy, who jumped solo.
Dolores was talking about Davy when she said that; she was holding onto his arm.
The ending where the characters were jumping was reserved for the major players in the film; Delores was more of a featured character and therefore would not have been included.
Never Again - S4-E13
Question: When Mulder is on the phone with Scully and hears that she has a date, why does he make the punching motions after they hang up? Is he jealous?
Answer: It's not about Scully having a date. Mulder, who is vacationing at Graceland, Elvis Presley's home, is frustrated when Scully calls and says the Pudovkin investigation is not an X File case and she's turned it over to the Philadelphia office. After hanging up, Mulder humorously expresses his frustration by mimicking Elvis' karate moves. Many Elvis imitators do this as a parody.
Question: When the family received the staff and visitation spell, Barley and Ian recited the spell. Why did the staff respond to Ian and not Barley?
Question: Might count as a stupidity, but given the high chance of death, why is only "revive me" written on his chest when he goes back, instead of also the details about the bomber and ferry?
Question: Given how much difficulty just some of what came out of the game gave everyone, how could Alan alone as a child have possibly survived in the game for 30+ years? Did the game make him immortal? Did Van Pelt help him, etc?
Answer: No. The game didn't make Alan immortal, and Van Pelt didn't help him. Van Pelt was a hunter whose mission was to kill Alan. After being pulled into the game, Alan probably had some close calls and had to learn for himself what was dangerous and what wasn't.
Question: 1. In at least 3 scenes, the person or truck tries to get to the front set of steps. Why didn't they try for the back set, or the steps on the 2nd locomotive; once aboard, they could get to the cab in front. 2. In the 2-engine attempt, there's no way those engines could go onto a siding and the rest of the train continue on the main track, is there? 3. When 1206 is moving onto the rip rail siding and 777 is coming at them, why does Frank blow the horn? He knows nobody is aboard 777.
Answer: 1) There was no way to get to the front of the train from the back, as shown later when Frank tries to run from the back to the front. Getting to the second engine is also a challenge due to less room. On an AC4400CW, you have to go through the cab of the second locomotive to get into the first, and the door between them should remain locked, meaning he wouldn't have a key. 2) If you're very lucky, it might work, but it requires a lot of precision. 3) Frank was driving an older SD40-2, which is equipped with what is known as an "alerter system," effectively a "dead man's handle." It's designed to apply the emergency brakes if it detects an object in front of it using the onboard IDF system or if the reset isn't activated every 65 seconds. The alerter system looks for throttle, brake, horn, or reset button input. By pressing the horn, he told the train’s systems, "I'm still here, I'm still in control."
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Answer: Because he's her father and she misses him. Her mum is already dead and she recently lost one of her brothers. She's afraid of losing him too.
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