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(Spoilers) Opinion on the Anchor


At the end when the anchor falls and hits the young lady in the neck, was it really not heavy enough, sharp enough, or hard enough to go through her neck(which wasn't that thick nor muscle bound) to not break the mirror? That seemed kind of like a cheap way out of it. I could buy it more if it hit her in her back or something but her neck? From how the anchor looked her head would have almost been severed by if not completely and the mirror would have taken a hard hit.

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I was wondering this as well. Or at the very least crack it if not completely shatter it.

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correct.... if her father's head hitting it can make that crack, how is a 40lb anchor (20 lbs and 20lbs added) not go right through her and at the very least crack the mirror? even if it went through her mid-section it would still be able to crack the mirror....

It's mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality...

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Glad to see I was not the only one that had these thoughts.

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The mirror was nuclear-proof for all we know, even though it shows that it evades blows by making people swing away from it, it does not mean that the glass itself is not protected against enormous force by something supernatural.

The way I saw the dad damaging it was because in his last few seconds, just as in his wives last few seconds, he snaps out of being under it's control and allows himself to be killed, I assume this momentarily weakened the force behind the mirror meaning even a pebble could break it. But under normal circumstances I'd bet the anchor would still just bounce off, likely it is fragile glass protected by a layer of paranormal juju.

A 400 year old mirror known to have killed 4 dozen people would at least at one point be struck by a projectile large enough to dmg it, yet the only dmg it ever receives was from the head of someone who was under it's spell and temporarily resisted it's power. Weakening it.



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Weren't there weights attached to it?

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Karen Gillan is soft.

imo

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