…but the coupons were expired the whole time!
Funny.
I like whacky alt theories. But I agree that the one linked to in the OP wasn’t well thought out.
Not like, say, the Gilligan’s Island one:
http://www.richardsramblings.com/2002/04/gilligans-island/
Cute!
When I saw that post, my first thought was “Is that the one about drug smuggling?”.
Yup. I don’t know if it’s a good crazy fan theory, but it’s certainly one that’s stuck with me.
You’re right. I can laugh off “Kevin is dead” but this has taken me completely out of the movie!
You looked? That’s product placement man! When they show the brands, you’re supposed to look away as a matter of principle.
(Or maybe they didn’t show the brands. I was looking away.)
I prefer the Gilligan is the devil theory. It predates Lost.
Indeed, fine fun can be had with “whacky alt theories” about artistic works of all kinds – the whackier the better ! I think here, of a – well, interesting – one propounded by a poster in the recent thread on “Cafe Society”, about “what’s the worst ‘classic’ book or author you read or tried to read?” Poster opined that the animated film of Watership Down is clearly an allegory of “the Soviet takeover of East Germany” (the book had not been to their taste, so only an initial small part read – insufficient for forming views re allegories-or-not). I suppose that Woundwort does share some salient characteristics with Stalin; but essentially my “take” is that Watership Down is, simply, about humanised wild rabbits and their doings – and that’s what I would wish it to be about.
And, in Tolkien-related matters: I love the theory that Tom Bombadil is in actual fact – despite the jovial facade which he shows – deeply and dreadfully evil; that indeed, he is really the Witch-King of Angmar. For what I can perceive, they don’t come much whackier than that…
His jerkass uncle probably shoved a dozen rolls in his suitcase.