My own personal theory is that the “Khan” we see isn’t really Khan…it’s Khan’s second in command, Joachim, who he far more closely resembles.
Possibly he was mis-identified as Khan when he was un-frozen, and went along with it to play the situation for his own advantage, and to protect his leader.
If I were a comic writer, I would include this explanation in my very next issue.
Not so much fanwank as a straight-up appraisal of Martin’s influences, I’d say.
This is brilliant.
Game of Thrones takes place not on another planet, but in a parallel universe that diverged from ours when Earth’s land was in the form of the mega-continent Pangea. In the GoT universe the continents separated differently, but evolution proceeded more or less the same, producing horses, pigs, chickens, and even humans who proceeded to develop similar cultures. A few different evolutionary paths diverged, such as flying dinosaurs that evolve the ability to shoot streams of flame from their mouths or nostrils for some reason.
The best I’ve seen it this genre is the Gilligan’s Island Conspiracy. The three hour tour was a drug deal gone bad. Thurston Howell was on a drug buy, with the Professor and his equipment to test the purity and Ginger for Hollywood drug connections. Since the Skipper and Gilligan were in on the plot, that left Mary Ann, who must have been a federal agent. The rescues were all foiled by Gilligan and his co-conspirators until the statute of limitations ran out. It all makes sense.
Jar Jar Binks was actually a mole for the Sith. His ultimate goal was to stand in for Amidalia and recommend the Senate transfer power to Palpatine. The Senate went along with it, because they thought if a complete moron advocates such a power shift, then it must be safe and free of dire complications.
Someone in a previous thread pointed out that five inch heels are much more practical when you’re super-strong and invulnerable.
Being able to fly helps, too.
Mary Poppins and Bill are comrades in arms travelling from one family to another and taking on various roles that help change history in a butterfly-wings way. They both have the same powers, but Mary’s are stronger, and Bill is more interested in creating gadgets than using their time-travel and mind-wipe powers.
The change they wanted to make with the Bankses was to make sure women got the vote. They made sure Mr Banks was a senior figure in society, made sure he would encourage his wife in her suffragette activites, and even made Jane talk to her mother about horse racing a lot. The suffragette movement became ever stronger; it gained a symbolic martyr when one of Mrs Banks’ friends threw herself under a horse at a race; and the world was changed.
Eventually Bill and Mary get together and have two children, and ostensibly retire to the countryside. Mary can’t stand this life and doesn’t love Bill as much as she thought, and volunteers to take on just one more role with a family in Austria. There she falls more in love than she ever was with Bill, retires and stays with that family for good, leaving her old life behind.
Meanwhile, Bill is left with their two kids in that small village trying to live a normal life while still creating gadgets. He memory-wipes a homeless man into pretending to be his father, but it goes a bit wrong and the man believes he’s his father but is also a bit crazy. Eventually he meets a local woman with money, connections and looks and brainwashes both her and his own children into believing they should be a family. Otherwise why would they accept each other so readily?
Their daughter grows up to have Mary’s powers but resists doing the job. Then one day, when her children are grown and settled, her husband dies and she decides to go into the work she was born for. Her husband’s surname was McPhee.
Shue’s character was a senior in high school; she wasn’t at university. But her being the same character in LLV could work.
The other theory is just fanfiction but it’s as credible as Hermione and Ron actually staying together that long.
Even when teenagers were given high-level jobs, got married, etc (though they didn’t usually get married as young as you think), they still looked young, or even younger than teenagers do now. Girls often didn’t even start menstruating till age 16, which was the average age of menarche until Victorian times, so having 4 kids by 20 would be extremely unusual. GRRM just got the ages a bit wrong.
Starbuck’s dad is the 13th Cylon. I don’t care if the writers came back and said otherwise, it just fits too well to not be true.
And the old guy who repairs Woody is the old guy who plays chess with himself in the short film.
It also takes place in the same universe as Dr. Who.
Only instead of the TARDIS being a phone booth, it’s the Pizza Planet truck. Which is how it gets into every movie regardless of location (America [Toy Story], Paris [Ratatois], Australia [Finding Nemo], etc.) or even time (Brave).
Bruce doesn’t get ANY respect from Alfred.
I’ve never cared for that one. Alfred’s not that kind of guy. Oh, he might father a child out of wedlock (he actually did, pre-crisis, when he was a WWII vet), but he’d never sleep with another man’s wife.
I assume you’re talkin gabout the current BBC series. That’s not really a fanwank; it’s practically canon. See his best man’s toast. It’s just that Sherlock doesn’t understand his own emotions well enough to identify what he feels for John.
And of course that’s also true of Elementary’s Holmes (except that he does know that he loves Joan) and Doyle’s Holmes. Either of them would flat-out, no-kidding-around murder anyone who harmed Watson, and Real!Holmes surreptitiously supported Watson when the latter’s practice was on bad times even though he, Holmes, hated the stories and, let’s be honest, rarely needed a partner in any practical sense.
There is actually another well-fleshed-out meme that Jesse’s ORIGINAL little girl owner was…
…Andy’s mother! I don’t have a link, but the way I remember it was explained, all of the pieces fit.
Whereas in the original Conan Doyle stories, it’s not even canon that his first name is John.
In the webcomic Superbitch, Superbitch wears high heels while flying just off the ground and pretending to walk. She does it to troll and torment rival superheroines, who end up with severe foot & ankle pain from trying to superhero in high heels without flying.
I’m pretty sure Bomb Voyage, who was an evil superhero in the Incredibles, appears in Ratatouille. He’s on the sidewalk, looking very French, as Linguini walks by.
Why are droids rarer in the original Star Wars movies, and tech seems to have gone backward?
Cultural hatred from the clone wars where a trillion organic beings were killed by droids.
Remember “we don’t serve their kind here” bet that dude watched his parents get executed by the droid army.
No. In medieval England people matured much slower. Hell, in 1920s America people matured much slower.
The age average of menarche in 1920 was 17 years. In the Middle Ages it was 19 even for the nobility. It would have been at least 12 months later for peasants. IOW most women wouldn’t have had their first period before their 20th birthday. It’s harder to get accurate data for males, but the age when boys were considered at all capable of fathering a child was 14 in medieval England. Before that it was considered biologically impossible for a boy to produce offspring. So that gives us the lower 95th percentile at least. That mean that the average age of first potent ejaculation would have been 17-18.
They did that in 1800 as well. But we know that the average age of menarche in 1800 was 17 years. So we can be sure that the age of legal responsibility for crimes like murder and treason wasn’t linked in any way to reproductive capability just as it isn’t today.
There are only handful of historical accounts of even nobility marrying so young and in almost all those cases the married parties weren’t allowed to cohabit. There is no evidence at all of girls of 12 regularly getting married in Europe.
If the author said this, then he is a liar or a fool.
In a society that has to compulsorily breastfeed, a women couldn’t regularly fall pregnant less than 2 years apart, and even that would require superb nutrition. So that’s 5 years and 9 months from the date of first delivery to the delivery of the fourth child. Add 9 months for the first gestation and you find that in order to produce 4 children by 20 an average girl would have to fall pregnant 6 1/2 years before her 20th birthday, or 6 months after her 13th birthday. There is no way in hell that a typical 13 year old has the bone or body mass to support multiple pregnancies 2 years apart on a medieval diet.
The average age of menarche even in the modern US is 13 years. IOW even in the modern US it is exceedingly difficult for a woman to have 4 children at age 20. To suggest that it happened regularly when the age of menarche was 18+ years is ridiculous.
Some were. A tiny, tiny number, and all sons of high nobility. This wasn’t common.
Boys of 14 were fighting the Russians in the streets of Berlin in 1945. So once gain, this tell s us nothing about maturity.
In light if that, it’s creepy as hell. There is a better than 75% chance that the female characters hadn’t even had their first period.
