Questions that will never, ever be answered in story.

I’ll tell you later.

Who reported for what? I don’t see any rule-breaking, personal insults, or jerkishness anywhere.

And, since it is established that vamps have no breath, how does Spike smoke?

Why do True Blood vampires have retractable fangs? That’s a snake/reptilian thing, not a Bat thing.

Love Rhombus:

It was actually an “Ultra-Energy Beast”, so Jo absorbed a lot of that energy into his body. (LSH Annual # 1, 1989 series).

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my angel?

How come no bones?

It’s not exactly that they haven’t breath. They can breathe but don’t need to (and find drowning painful but non-lethal).

It’s Angel who says that he hasn’t breath, and he says this by way of explanation of why he isn’t trying to do CPR on an apparently-death Buffy. As things were understandably rushed at that moment, I took this as shorthand that there is something unwholesome in the air in his lungs (and by extension that of other vampires) that prevents him from doing mouth-to-mouth. I can easily imagine that until that moment he was the only person who knew that. During his century of rat-eating he may have tried and failed (or worse than failed) to save a life that way; and normal vampires would have no motivation to ever try, so they’d have not encountered the phenomenon.

In Total Recall, does anything really happen after Douglas Quaid goes to sleep, or is it all implanted in his mind?

Three episodes? It’d be a two-parter at the longest.

This is an interesting idea, by the way.

They don’t turn into bats, so what difference does it make? It’s just a “hey, it’s hard for the actors to talk with this shit in their mouth” and also “helps storylines if vampires can pass as human” technical issue.

He doesn’t, that’s why Kirk was pretty clear it wasn’t God.

I think it’s very heavily implied that it’s all real due to the scene where Quaid is struggling with the Recall medics. When the exec says he’s just reacting to the program they implanted the lead tech says that’s not possible as they haven’t implanted it yet. Quaid wasn’t actually conscious during any of this (the personality that was conscious when struggling with the techs was Hauser, the sleeper agent) and couldn’t have had any knowledge of it, and so that scene couldn’t have been part of his dream. If the makers wanted to the story to be ambiguous that scene would have been absent or framed in such a way to make it less clear that it had happened or not.

A story with a similar question hanging over it is Minority Report - a theory I’ve seen is that everything following Anderton being haloed is simply a dream, what he fantasises happens as part of his incarceration (it being such an incredibly and oh so convenient happy ending). Whilst this is indeed also ambiguous, nothing about the ending to me suggests it should be taken as anything other than what happened.

For me a film that truly is ambiguous is something like Pan’s Labyrinth.

Was the faun and the underworld real? Did she use magic to escape her room? Was her vision at the end true or simply a fantasy as she died? The film is presented in such a way that anything supernatural could be interpreted as magical realism, or simply imagined, rather than actually magical. The audience is left to draw its own conclusions.

Thanks!

I also think Hurley would make a great Companion:

“Dude! It’s, like, bigger on the inside!”

They could also bring Sawyer along to give the aliens stupid nicknames.

<sneers> Why don’t you get your butt on over to Whoville and carve the roast beast? </sneers>

Yeah, DW could probably use a little bit of Sawyer. :wink:

Crossover drinking game: Take a swig every time Sawyer calls Amy “Red”.

I have an old comic from way before all the crisis stuff and it has “mommy made it for him” out of the blankets and swaddling clothes that were in his ship, and using a sliver from the wreckage as a needle

ETA: :confused: This thread was 4 pages long? :smack: