In calvin and hobbes, calvin is actually alone by himself nearly 80% of the time. He has no other friends or relationships other than his imaginary friend. In actuality, he’s an extremely lonely and disturbed child.
Schroeder, in Peanuts, is secretly gay. He’s the only character that never had a crush on anyone, ever, except beethoven. Of course, that’s in contrast to the openly gay character of Marcie. (As I was researching this, I just found out Peppermint Patty’s full name is Patricia Reichardt.)
Homer Simpson has a single hair that begins at one temple and reaches all the way around to the other temple.
Eric Cartman was sexually abused by either his mother, his mother’s boyfriends and/or his uncle.
Given Frank Herbert’s propensity to hit the reader over the head with a Serious And Obvious Metaphor on every single page – I doubt he was either that subtle or that whimsical.
As for Schroeder, I challenge your conclusion because (1) he’s only eight, (2) he was also liked other classical composers like Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, and Chopin, and (3) it seems to be based on the assumption that any male who has an interest in classical music must be gay (NTTAWWT).
No. Does there have to be? It just seemed to make sense. I haven’t read any of the novels, though: did Fleming give him a consistent backstory that would preclude that?
I mean, the Doctor regenerates, which is something the writers came up with when Hartnell became too ill to continue. Are we just supposed to accept all the different actors playing JB 007 as being the same person, not just the same agent? I mean we could, it doesn’t bother me, but I like my theory. Connery’s character was Agent 007 for a number of years, until he a) retired b) was killed on a mission we didn’t get to see because it failed c) was promoted d) had to be silenced e) other. And then Lazenby’s 007 either fouled up his second mission, which we also didn’t get to see, or he was just someone they stuck in that slot until Moore’s character, the guy they really wanted, was available. And later Dalton’s character replaced Moore’s for another of the above reasons, and so forth. If I’m wrong I’m wrong, but is there really a problem with my theory? (Plus, would a double-0 give his real name to all and sundry?)
Superhal, can you be more explicit? What about the show conveys that to you? Overt lines? Plot on screen? Events depicted? Or are you reading between the lines, and if so, which lines?
(Not that I care. But you didn’t actually answer the question.)
Well, his marriage in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is referenced in several other films, particularly For Your Eyes Only, where Roger Moore visits Tracey’s grave before killing Blofeld.
Plastic surgery could explain the different appearances. In Majesty, Blofeld fails to recognize Bond even though they’ve met before. Unless it was one of Blofeld’s doubles.
I like to think that Blofeld is a codename for the current head of SPECTRE, and Bond has encountered at least two different ones. The bald ones might be the same person, though played by different actors. However, I think the DAF one is a different person. NSNA happened in an alternate universe.
Ironically, in the books its pretty much the opposite – Blofeld is always the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E., but his number changes on a regular basis, so he’s only SPECTRE #1 some of the time. But the leader is always Blofeld, and always the same person.
:smack::smack::smack: Even if it wasn’t intentional on the part of Herbert, that’s still awesome.
He’s friends with Susie. And the strip *intentionally excluded *other characters because Watterson realized early on that it was more interesting that way. His early experiments with including other characters (having Calvin be a Boy Scout, having his uncle visit) made it clear to him that they only got in the way of what he actually wanted to write. It was especially problematical to include other characters because of the dual nature of Hobbes; constantly having Calvin around other people would have meant that Watterson would have had to more explicitly state exactly how Hobbes worked (or eliminate him entirely). It has zero to do with Calvin being “lonely and disturbed.”
Of course… A prepubescent boy who doesn’t actively chase girls, explicitly because he wishes to emulate his never-married idol, is clearly gay. And so is a prepubescent girl who wears shorts and hangs out with a tomboy. :rolleyes: Did you just completely forget that Marcie is portrayed as having a crush on Charlie Brown?
Did you see the new *Star Trek *film and insist that Kirk, Spock, et al. were all code names, too? How about Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, and Christian Bale: were they portraying different men, all codenamed both Batmand and Bruce Wayne?
Franchises–especially long-running ones–reboot. Sometimes it’s by making a new version of the same core character (Dr. Who), sometimes it’s by setting events in the past or the future of the same universe (The new *BSG *vs. Caprica, TOS *Star Trek *vs. Next Generation, DS9, etc.), but just as often it’s by getting a new set of actors to play the same characters.