Watches, wigs, rings, dentures, surgery pins all left behind on plane. But nobodys clothes?
shareMy guess is they went straight to the after life and I'd assume when they remet - god was nice enough to spare them one heck of an embarrassing moment.. ...seriously I think clothes in a sense define a humans characteristics - like an attitude to a degree and so they were still considered apart of people... ..Not real sure on that one...
shareActually, what happened was the Flight 29 and its passengers went through a time rip due to whatever magnetic phenomena was occurring over the Mojave. Only metal objects, or objects attached with metal survived going from the present to the past. As for the wig, I'm assuming there were some bobby pins or something in it.
The conscious passengers and their clothes were vaporized, pushed out of existence; or at least that is what was theorized in the novella. For some reason, being asleep protects you through the transition, which is why they had to be asleep going back, or they would have been vaporized just like the others. I actually read the novella first, and even then it was never explained how sleep protected you. It just did. But Stephen King typically doesn't explain everything. He doesn't have to. After all, he's Stephen King.
They basically flew into "yesterday," to put it simply. And only the sleeping passengers and metal objects like "Watches, wigs, rings, dentures, surgery pins" and even the plane itself made the transition. There was no "God not wanting to see naked people" about it, as humorous as that was.
Don't over think it. It's just a story and, as with a lot of Stephen King's stories, some stuff is never explained. If the wig stayed because it had bobby pins securing it then clothing and shoes with snaps, hooks, underwires,, etc would also have been left behind. I didn't see any bras on the vacated seats so I don't think the presence of metal is a logical explanation for why that stuff stayed and clothes didn't. ;)
shareI think it would make the making of the film too difficult. Can you picture a pile of
clothes on each seat? What could the blind girl make out of any of this?
Also, it would look pretty unsightly.
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LMAO you raise a good question... which led me to a hilarious visual of them all running around naked in the Airport and showing back up in the end buck naked in front of all those people!!! :-D
shareIt would have been far too much work for the props department and the set would have looked messy....
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A good point. I am wondering why did the knife work, although the bullet didn't? Why is it so selective?
Also, why could they speak, yell and make all kinds of noises, but only clapping, echoes and heels on asphalt didn't work?
What kind of logic or consistency does that make?
Eh. That's obvious, the bullet uses gunpowder which wouldn't ignite properly. The blade is propelled by the user and thus of course works. How is that even a question? If anything the real question would've been why did the bullet leave the gun at all, since the gunpowder most likely shouldn't have reacted at all, just like the matches didn't do anything.
As for the sounds, in the past the sounds were there (except for echoes), but dulled, "powerless." Just like it was said. In the present and future they were lively, powerful. Hence sharp sounds like clapping made the biggest difference.
" That's obvious, the bullet uses gunpowder which wouldn't ignite properly. "
Why does it matter WHAT it uses or doesn't use? Does complexity enter into it?
A computer wouldn't work, but a calculator would?
I don't think so. NOTHING should work, or EVERYTHING should work.
"The blade is propelled by the user and thus of course works."
A "powerless" blade is powerlessly propelled by a powerless 'user' (I can't believe you wanted to use that particular terminology), and it works? So.. chemical reactions do not work, but physical laws do? Why is it so selective?
I mean, shouldn't the blade and the force both be 'powerless'? I'd imagine the blade would be more like rubber. Why would it retain the powerful properties of metal, if nothing else retains their properties?
" How is that even a question? "
How is THAT even an answer?
"If anything the real question would've been why did the bullet leave the gun at all, since the gunpowder most likely shouldn't have reacted at all, just like the matches didn't do anything."
There are lots of 'real questions' - don't tell me my question wasn't REAL! It was as real as any question.
But you are explaining it in a way that implies that you want to have your cake and eat it too. You can't have it both ways. Either nothing works, or everything works.
"As for the sounds, in the past the sounds were there (except for echoes), but dulled, "powerless." Just like it was said. In the present and future they were lively, powerful. Hence sharp sounds like clapping made the biggest difference. "
So, sounds are powerless, but blades aren't. What kind of logic or sense does that make? Blades should be JUST as powerless as sounds! Why is air breathable, btw? Why isn't it completely lacking in it's proper properties, like the oxygen content, etc.?
As I said - it's SELECTIVE, and I wanted to know why. You even proved my point, and yet kept trying to say my questions are not real.
- Matches do not work
- Guns work 'powerlessly'
- Blades work powerfully
- Gravity works 100% normally
- Air is 100% perfect and normal
- Sounds do not work properly
- Human speech, however, is not affected by this (shouldn't they have to YELL everything, if sounds have become so 'powerless'?)
ETC.
These are huge inconsistencies, that can't exist, unless the whole thing is SELECTIVE.
My main question is and always was - WHY IS IT SO SELECTIVE?
You are only half-assedly pseudo-answering my side questions, without tackling the main issue, which you even admitted to exist yourself. While insulting my questions as not being 'real'. Sheesh. Try to learn how to discuss with people, before you write your next message.
And make more sense next time.
"NOTHING should work or EVERYTHING should work"
I don't think this is necessarily completely true. We don't really know anything for certain about the "past" the characters find themselves in. It is all speculation on their part.
Perhaps the Past was still in the process of winding down, but wasn't totally dead yet. After all, why not argue that the plane should plummet out of the sky because without wind resistance it can't fly? Why should the characters be able to breath the air? Why does gravity still exist?
I like to theorize about the strange version of the Past King created with this story... and so I will speculate that all these things WOULD eventually happen. Eventually the gun would not fire at all because the gunpowder would not ignite what-so-ever. Eventually gravity and wind resistance would disappear. Eventually even light would cease to travel at its normal speed and in time cease to exist all together. At some point... relatively speaking, perhaps time itself winds down and disappears. It is implied that if the characters do not escape the past that eventually even they will wind down with the rest of it.
I wonder what THAT would look like? Would the characters get sleepy and weak? Start to get dumb as their thought processes shut down, as their body shuts down and deteriorates?
Of-course before any of this can happen the "Langoliers" will destroy everything, so all that is left is a void. However I imagine that the void itself eventually experiences everything in it winding down and all the laws of the universe fading. At which point it ceases to exist even as a void.
My first response would be that clothes are made from organic materials (like cotton), but then again, some if not most are poly blends synthetics, like that wig.
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