Yeah, I know we’ve done it before. Probably multiple times. I’ve probably even started one of those threads. If you don’t want to play, move on.
The rules are simple. Poster 1 mentions an incident from literature, comic books, movies, television, or theatre that doesn’t make a damn bit of sense in terms of the fictional universe in which it occurs. Poster 2 fanwanks that incident: he or she explains the apparent inconsistency in some way other that “A wizard did it/Q did it/Jeanie sneezed and blinked at the same time.” Poster 2 then gives a new incident for the next respondent to fanwank.
For instance, let’s say Doper 0 wrote:
then I would reply:
That’s easy to explain. Beard!Spock had recently sustained a massive head injury, and though his McCoy had healed him enough to get him back on his feet, his skull was far from healed. That’s why he wasn’t in the landing party: he was on restricted duty. Regular!Spock had sustained a similar injury in the parallel incident, and was under similar restrictions. Thus, when McCoy saw BS collapse so easily, he knew exactly what the problem was and what needed to be done.
All clear?
Okay, I’ll start with a softball. Why couldn’t Angel give Buffy CPR after she was drowned by the Master, given that we’ve seen vampires smoke, pass out from being choked, and otherwise give clear evidence that they breathe?
In this instance it wasn’t just oxygen she needed, but “life.” Since being exposed to a vampire’s blood shortly after or shortly before causes a person to rise as a vampire, it was a reasonable assumption on Angel’s part that sharing breath with a dead human might be a dangerous undertaking. His saliva might also trigger some sort of unusual response in the recently deceased, after all. So, it had to be the breath of a living human and not a vampire.
Jumping to Heroes now, in the episode “Powerless”. Considering that Peter has super strength, can phase through walls, and stop time, why did he decide to use telekinesis of all things to try to pull the door off of the vault, instead of just walking in, or pulling the door open, or at the very least freezing time while he’s pulling it open?
For all of his awesome powers, he’s as human as the rest of us. It’s just cooler to rip the door off a vault using your mind.
Why doesn’t the Enterprise crew just use a shuttlecraft to rescue Sulu and the landing party as they freeze to death on the planet’s surface in TOS “The Enemy Within”?
It was never stated, but all the shuttles were back at the repair facilities being repaired.[sup]1[/sup]
Why did Charlie Brown never slug Lucy?
Jim
[sup]1[/sup] Honestly, the shuttles had not been introduced yet on the show and the models were not yet constructed, there were some delays building them, that led to the concept of the transporter in the first place.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
It was never stated, but all the shuttles were back at the repair facilities being repaired.[sup]1[/sup]
I just don’t buy that. What I can buy, though, is tht there were severe winds in the upper atmosphere, so far in excess of that which the shuttles were rated to handle that it wasnn’t even considered. I mean, if shuttles were rated to handle, say, 200 mph winds in an Earth-type atmosphere, and Kirk already knew that the upper atmosphere winds were 600 mph+ why would anyone even suggest it?
Data, being mostly made of electronics, has a subconscious phobia of water that he’s working hard to overcome.
How come Desmond goes with Locke to see if the button doesn’t work? He knows something happens when they don’t push the button–we see it in the flashback with Kelvin’s death.
He has a bet with The Others that one of these days the damn button is going to fail, and hopes this is the time.
(What Exit?, according to the Whitfield book The Making of ST, Roddenberry wrote about transporters from the very outset of creating the show, knowing they’d save a bundle on SFX that way. But you’re right, they still didn’t have a shuttle model by the time they filmed that episode).
Why don’t the Beverly Hillbillies realize how totally out of place and scorned they are in California, and move back home?
Besides, they don’t care how the others think about them. They’re just living their life and if people get bent out of shape about it, it’s their problem.
How does one reverse the polarity of a neutron flow?
You’ll probably want to recalibrate the lateral sensor array and then run a Level 2 diagnostic.
How does Buckaroo Banzai get any sleep at all, given his busy schedule as a leading theoretical physicist, brain surgeon, rock star and presidential advisor?
He combined his talents as a theoretical physicist and brain surgeon to create a device embedded in his skull that allows 10% of his brain to sleep at a time.
How did a single apple, planted in Edwardian England, grow into a tree big enough to provide the wood for a wardrobe that was already old by the early 1940s?
As a theorhetical physicist, he doesn’t have to prove anything. Buck can just postulate and let lab researchers do the hard work. As a brain surgeon, his fees are high so he doesn’t get too many calls. As a rock star, all he has to do is get on stage and wail and let the roadies do the rest. As a presidential advisor, look at the numbskulls who advise our current Commander-in-Chief and consider how much brain power they use.
In the old Star Trek, The Tholian Web, how come the Tholians and their web didn’t go into Interphase when the Enterprise and the ghost of Captain Kirk did?
Well, if you recall, it was quite a ways from Old Earth to the new solar system. Everybody was edgy during the flight, so they passed out personal ion generators to everybody so their chi would stay straight. When they arrived at the new system and opened the doors to all the ships, a massive cloud of ions was released which eventually settled into orbit near Miranda.
How come the hero never gets so covered with whatever that he is unrecognizable? Everybody else in the scene will get completely covered in mud, goo, exploded Stay-Puft Man, or what have you, but the highest paid person in the scene will only get a colorful dab of the material on them.
Alternate explaination: A fragment of the meteoroid from The Colour Out of Space crashed nearby, after it was planted (there is, of course, a possibility that it was actually a fragment of the Wold-Newton meteorite that had simply lay undiscovered near the site of the planting, or that the two were in fact “sister” fragments of some larger object in space).
The hero becomes the hero because he is faster/stronger/smarter than everyone else. He is able to dodge the exploding marshmallow better because of his skills and gets less on him.
If you’re building a wall to keep King Kong out, why would you build a door big enough to let the giant monkey in? Why not only equip the wall with human sized doors?
Oh, c’mon! When King Kong is going door-to-door with Girl Scout cookies, of course you want to be able to bring the massive boxes of Thin Mints inside. Duh. :rolleyes:
Why couldn’t Cthulhu simply float or swim to land after R’lyeh sank once more beneath the waves?
In the case of the Ghostbusters crew, the answer is pretty straightforward. They each carry an [del]unlicensed nuclear accelerator[/del] proton pack which had the side effect of inducing a strong electrostatic charge in the user. When the beams were crossed, the charge built up to such an extent that it was able to repel the foamy confection away our heroes and onto the head of the dickless.