# Ladyhawke: one thing that always bugged me...

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**Created:** [May 18, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladyhawke-one-thing-that-always-bugged-me/245718 "2004-05-18T05:17:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladyhawke-one-thing-that-always-bugged-me/245718/21 "2004-05-19T12:52:47Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> One thing that bothers me about _Ladyhawke:_ There’s a scene where the wolf/knight almost falls through the hole in the ice, and it’s all under the light of the full moon . . . and then, a few days later, there’s the climactic scene during a **solar eclipse**. . . Solar eclipses always happen during the **new** moon, because they depend on the moon being directly between the Earth and the sun, and then, obviously, the side of the moon facing the Earth is dark. You can’t have a full moon, and then have a total solar eclipse a few days later.

It’s been long enough since I’ve seen the movie that I can’t remember – is it clear that it’s really only been a few days? In situations like this I’m usually willing to give the movie the benefit of the doubt and assume that time passed unseen. Maybe were a couple of days on the road when nothing interesting happened. But some movies don’t let you give them the benefit of the doubt, like the very bad _Werewolf_ screened on MST3K in which there was a full moon shown practically _every night_! “That’s got to be the most stubborn full moon ever!”

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