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Giant plot hole if the original sequel(s) is/are no longer canon.

posted a year ago by jasonbayly13181 (184)
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Hear me out because I'm sure people will be chomping at the bit to smash me since that's what everyone does on here. But I promise I'll do my best to make sense.

The entire point of the original 1978 Halloween was for Michael to escape and to find his sister to kill her. We find out in the original sequel that this was his motive. If any movie beyond the OG 1978 movie is no longer canon, except the new trilogy, then there's no reason at all for Michael to have purposely sought out Laurie in the orginal.

When he escaped during the storm in the OG, he was hell bent on going directly to Laurie because he already knew who she was. He was hanging outside bushes on her walk to school, out by the clothesline in her backyard, and standing outside her window watching her at school.
But if we disregard that she's his sister, then him specifically seeking her out makes no sense at all because he'd have no idea who she even was since they'd never once interacted before, let alone have a motive to kill her. I hope I'm making sense on this.

The new trilogy still sort of makes sense since he'd be trying to get revenge on her for their first encounter 40 years prior, but seems like a bit of overkill (no pun intended) for him to wait four decades to kill the person he had a 20 minute encounter with so many years prior. I know we have to look at it as we're dealing with a highly irrational psychopath's mind so he sat and stewed on it for 40 years, but it still just seems like a stretch to me.

Don't get me wrong, I love the movies, but taking the brother/sister angle out of the story makes his motives in the original completely pointless. Here's where I get crushed by everyone, so go ahead.........

[–] AnagramYYZ (607) 7 months ago

Myers simply followed the girl who approached his house and dropped off a key at the porch. He actually began to take much less interest in Laurie though, when it was clear that she was observant and always watching him back. She wasn't a soft target like her friends, especially the one who mouthed off to him, Annie Brackett. In fact, more than anyone else, it was Annie who he used to relive the memory and satisfaction his original killing of Judith, and I believe that's what placing her headstone at the crime scene above her corpse represented. Lynda & Bob were next as they, then came over, of their own accord. Hard target, Laurie, eventually investigated, and by that point Myers was off his game and got beaten back.

That's the interpretation of the original 1978 film on it's own. If you add the sister angle of the sequels in, then all you have to say is that either he wanted to torment her by killing her friends first, or that the Thorn curse wasn't very precise and he could feel his bloodline, but easily got the girls mixed up.

In 2018, he never targeted Laurie, as you may remember. Dr Sartain, obsessed with understanding Michael and hearing him speak, sought to bring the two together and drove the police cruiser to her compound.

[–] Stratego (30511) 7 months ago

"The entire point of the original 1978 Halloween was for Michael to escape and to find his sister to kill her. We find out in the original sequel that this was his motive. If any movie beyond the OG 1978 movie is no longer canon, except the new trilogy, then there's no reason at all for Michael to have purposely sought out Laurie in the orginal."

Wah? No. Michael went back to his old home and happened to come across a girl in the neighbourhood who was about the same age as his sister. That's why he started following her. He also followed Tommy. So was that really his younger brother? No, the kid probably reminded him of himself.

That's how it happened in the OG before any sequels.