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Why Jessica?
The seasons -- a theory
Rivers?
Blackfyre
Sansa's Letter to Robb
There Must Always Be a Stark at Winterfell
A Dragon Is not a Slave
Rosie and Bill (spoilers)
Cher
When is this movie set?
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Yes, but it's important to get a fire started first. For that, you need tinder -- fast burning, dry material that lights very quickly. Paper serves that purpose. Once the fire is going, then you want the thicker material that lasts longer and provides more heat -- like maybe the wood from the furniture.
That's what bothered me in the scene where they rush back to the reading room from the ship, and Sam immediately dumps more books on the fire. In addition to the fact that he's about to smother the flames, when a fire's at that point, you don't add more tinder, you add more fuel, or kindling (what you add in between tinder and fuel).
Also, nobody bothered to think about turning some of the metal material into portable warmers that they could put closer the furniture (a la 19th century bedwarmers), but that's a separate issue entirely.
"I'm not bad...I'm just drawn that way."
Also, the historical woman was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident, so the medical staff in Moscow would probably have been aware. So while this whole storyline may not have been handled well, I wouldn't go about putting all the blame on Lyudmilla in real life.
Radiation-related illnesses (like cancer) can take YEARS to manifest themselves. That's partly what makes it so deadly. Sadako Sasaki (of the 1000 paper cranes fame) was not diagnosed with leukemia until 1955 and wouldn't die for another ten months. From radiation she had been exposed to ten years earlier.
So while it certainly can be difficult to attribute deaths to something ten years after the fact, it's not impossible.
I took comment to mean "I'd guess slightly older than [what] you [guessed]." As in the four guys are a little bit older than their mid to late 20s, based on how long it would have taken for Leonard and Raj to get their PhDs.
Sheldon and Howard might be a little younger, but this is never exactly stated. Penny is in her early 20s when the show begins. Bernadette is probably closer to Penny's age, given that we see her get her PhD during the show.
Bronson Alcott (LMA's father) did run a school and attempt to integrate it, and the school was forced to close. That scene in the movie (which didn't involve Marmee at all) may have been inspired by that.
It wouldn't even have had to be a long stretch. This movie takes place over the course of three days. Lots of people go off somewhere for that amount of time with no Internet or cell coverage.
The number would have been even higher 25 years ago when virtually no one had Internet or cell coverage.
Which is why the computer virus solution makes sense. Exactly because we CAN'T out gun them. So we come up with something small and internal that the aliens have never seen. Presumably, the aliens have taken over other worlds just as militaristically advanced as ours and were thinking we would come after them with guns and nukes and torpedoes. They weren't expecting us to hack them. It's basically a more technologically advanced version of War of the Worlds, using a computer virus instead of bacteria.
(Now, I personally think the bacteria angle is a bit more likely, but there we are. I don't watch this movie for its scientific accuracy.)
In terms of repeat villains, the Kazon. They were just boring. Every time Voyager ran into them, it was the same old, same old. What Seska, who was brilliant and cunning and a fantastic villain, saw in them I will never know.
In regards to a one-off villain, it would probably be the dinosaurs (the Saurians?). I would have liked to see them fleshed out more instead of showing up in only one episode and shown simply as close-minded medievalists. Maybe have them show up in a couple of episodes, rather than just the one.
This. It's like when Connie confronts Betty about Charlie and asks her why she couldn't just let Connie be happy. BETTY'S not happy, and she just couldn't bear it that Connie was.
And don't forget it was Betty who introduced Charlie and Connie, and at the time she figured she was doing them both a favor. She never counted on it turning into something more. Connie was "imperfect" and single and definitely not Miss America material, and she was growing happy with the man who was only supposed to be a courtesy date. While Betty, who did everything right and was wealthy and perfect and married, had the man who had promised to love her forever but left her every weekend for his mistress.
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