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It doesn't really add much to the overall story. Someone who has never seen any of the movies and knows nothing of the plot could watch Episodes 2-6 and still understand everything of import.
There are two important points that Episode 1 seeks to show. One is Anakin's closeness to his mother; the other is Obi-Wan's growth from a cautious Padawan into a wise mentor. But both of these are badly underdeveloped. We never see, for example, Anakin getting into a fight and defending Shmi's honor, or insisting Qui-Gon free her too. Nor do we see Obi-Wan be forced to go somewhere/do something on his own without Qui-Gon (like we do with Anakin in Episode 2).
If the movie had focused more on either of those themes, it would have been better for it. But they're so underdeveloped that, when later episodes make reference to them, it seems out of place. The subplot on Tatooine in AOTC serves a purpose, but doesn't jive completely with what we saw here (Anakin was young enough that, judging by his actions in PM, he would not have simply dropped everything to go to Tatooine based on a hunch to rescue someone he hadn't communicated with in 10 years). And by the time we get to Obi-Wan's final scene with Yoda in ROTS, their reference to Qui-Gon is completely out of the blue and makes no sense.
Laszlo says it to Rick, right at the end of the film -- I think it's the last words ever said between the two. They're at the airport, and Laszlo is just about to give Rick and Ilsa their time alone to say their goodbyes.
I know this is an old thread, but....
"Welcome back to the fight. This time, I know we're going to win."
Given that the movie's premier was in November, 1942, and presumably, Warner Bros had been working on it for almost a year (see Rick's reference to December, 1941), Henreid was probably filmed saying that line sometime in the early half of 1942. The war wasn't going well for us then. We'd lost the Philippines, the Coral Sea was basically a draw, and we were losing convoys in the Atlantic. And Henreid comes along and says, "I know we're going to win."
Yeah, this is kind of a plot hole for me. Clearly, Elsa had ministers, because the country didn't completely fall to pieces in the three years in between her parents' death and her coronation. Presumably, one of them is Kai, since we see him mourn the former king and queen, he's at the ball, and he does official stuff with the Duke at the end.
So, WHY, if Kai (and possibly others) are there, are the foreign dignitaries running things later in the movie? Why does one of them say to Hans, "Arendelle looks to you"? True, Anna left Hans in charge when she went after Elsa (another thing that didn't make sense. She should have named Kai), but that doesn't give him any legal power, and Kai, et al could have easily challenged it. And even if Hans and Anna had gotten married, and Anna died immediately afterwards, it still would not have given Hans any power. He would just have been the husband to the heir of the queen. (And if someone could explain to me how a queen regnant could be charged with treason, I would love to know.)
Viserys and Rhaegar are supposed to look alike. This is implied in the books -- In one of Dany's visions in the House of the Undying (I WISH they had showed more of those), she sees a man in a room with a woman and a baby. Dany initially thinks he is Viserys before realizing that it isn't. The man's name is never mentioned, but most people believe him to be Rhaegar, since he has silver Targaryen hair and plays the harp -- something Rhaegar was known to do.
It can be a little confusing when characters look or act alike, though.
I know this is really late in replying, but for the record....
Danny Devito is Italian-American.
Rhea Perlman was born into a Jewish family of eastern European descent (Poland, Russia).
Mara Wilson was born to an Irish-American father and Jewish mother.
Matilda doesn't look anything like the Wormwoods, that is true, but I think that's part of the point of the story -- how much different she is from the rest of her family. The movie makes no mention of her genetics, and neither does the book.
I personally wouldn't say *boring*, per se (although it's certainly ok if you found it so), but I definitely enjoyed Darkest Hour more. I did have difficulty with the non-linear plot (it didn't fail here; it just didn't....fire on all cylinders), and the overall lack of character development meant the only person I ended up caring about was Kenneth Branagh, and that was only because I knew who he was.
Also, it wasn't until I read a review of the film later that I realized that a mole was similar to a pier. This isn't really made clear in the movie, so each time the film referenced the mole, I thought there was a traitor among the British soldiers, and I kept waiting for him to show himself.
The best thing about this line is that it's not even real. Kirk is putting on an act when he yells it. The audience and other characters present in the scene all think the scream is genuine. But Kirk has an ace up his sleeve and knows what he's doing the entire time.
So yes, this is the movie. If we consider the overarching theme to be how Kirk is working to out-maneuver Khan, this one word is, in fact, a microcosm of the film at large.
Yeah, this has always confused me. Especially since Chekov had been to the Ceti Alpha solar system before (yes, I know we never see him in Space Seed), so presumably, he knew how many planets there had been at one time. Each time I watch, I want to shake him for not commenting on the wrong number of planets.
They're in a nebula at the time Genesis is activated. Nebulae are...proto-baby stars, for lack of a better term. All the hydrogen and helium and matter required for the formation of a star are already there, just all spread out and disorganized. Under ordinary circumstances, when a nebula collapses, there is a massive increase in temperature and pressure, eventually (over millions of years) resulting in sustained nuclear fusion. Thus, a star is born. The surviving debris from the nebula that didn't become a star eventually (again, after millions of years) forms planets and asteroids and other satellites for the star.
Genesis didn't actually create the sun or planet. They would have eventually formed on their own. Genesis just really sped up the process.
I posted about this in another thread on here about how we never actually see evidence of seasons changing outside of the North. The leaves never change, the harvest is never brought in, people never really change their attire (at least until Season 7). In Season 2, Pycelle says basically that, all the Maesters got together and simply decided it was Autumn. There's no reference to the angle of the sun -- they just got together and saw that it seemed to be getting cooler in a bunch of places, so it must now be Autumn. And unpredictable seasons are often seen on a planet in a binary system, and we only ever see one sun.
BUT the characters still age naturally. Sansa talks about how old she is. Joffrey celebrates his name day. There are multiple references to specific dates. This implies that there is a solar year -- that whatever planet Westeros is on has a regular orbit with a star. I've often wondered if this means that the world has been having regular solar seasons all along, but with the White Walkers and Long Night and Doom of Valyria, the climate became so conflated that people stopped looking at the sun to figure them out. This might explain why there was that false spring right before Robert's Rebellion.
Jon is a little bit less than a year older than Dany. Dany was conceived shortly before the end of Robert's Rebellion, shortly before Jon was born.
Viserys, the brother we see in Season 1, was eight years older than Dany. Rhaegar, the brother who is Jon's father, was seventeen when Viserys was born. He dies before either Jon or Dany are born, and we only ever see him on the show once, during one of Bran's flashbacks. He's about 23 at the time of the flashback.
Jon is 17 at the beginning of Season 1, so by Season 8, if we take each season to be approximately one year, he would be 25, and Dany would be 24.
"that one ball sack from Castle Black... the one that back stabbed The Lord Commander at Crastor's Keep (forget his name)"
Karl Tanner.
Which is really annoying, given how important Howland Reed was in Season 6. When Sam tells Jon who he really is, that was prime opportunity to say something along the lines of, "Oh, and Lord Reed, down in Graywater Watch also knows this, so if you wanted to send a raven and ask him about it..." Which Jon could then have used with Dany, when she questions the source of his information in the next episode.
Also, there's the fact that MEERA MIGHT HAVE DARK SISTER. Why on earth wasn't that given more thought? There could have at least have been a conversation about how it was Valyrian steel and needed at Winterfell. Even if it wasn't DS, it was shown to be effective against White Walkers.
At the very end of the last season, we see flowers poking through the snow. I'm guessing it's a sign that spring has come. So I don't think the world is facing a 20 year winter.
My favorite in the books was Mary Anne, and she's my fave here, too. Personality-wise, I'm more of a Kristy or a Mallory, but I always loved Mary Anne.
I like Dawn, too, but I'm a little weirded out by all the ways they've changed her (they aren't *bad*, but they just aren't....her).
Well....Yes...and No. In the original story, Andersen describes the Little Mermaid as having clear white skin and blue eyes. (He DOESN'T, at any point, describe her hair color.) But as there's nothing in the original story to indicate that the color of her eyes or skin is integral to the plot, I certainly don't see an issue with the character being played by an African American actress if LM were being produced by Warner Brothers or Walden or some other film company altogether. But since it is being produced by Disney and, from what I understand, is supposed to be a live action version of the animated film, then they should stick with how they established their character -- fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes.
Although given how they portrayed several of the characters in Cinderella, it appears Disney tends to play fast and loose with this. Cate Blanchett doesn't look anything like the animated Lady Tremaine.
Sarah Waters is the alias she created for herself in that town. Anyone who knows her there knows her as Sarah Waters. She has an apartment and a job, so presumably, the rental agreement says Sarah Waters. Her employment record says Sarah Waters. Ben knows her as Sarah Waters. She may even have an official form of identification that says she's Sarah Waters. The only person who knows her as anything other than Sarah Waters is her mother, and she's not in the area. When the police come, some of whom probably knew her, all she had to say was, "He must have mistaken me for someone else. He kept calling me Laura."
There would have been two ways in the pre-Internet world of the film for the police to have started wondering about Sarah's identity. Either they went to Martin's house and saw photos, or they looked into the investigation of Laura's disappearance, which may have included photos. Going to Martin's house would have been unlikely, as it's halfway across the country. And they have no real reason to look into Laura's disappearance. A cursory glance at who Martin was would have told them that his wife was named Laura and recently deceased. And if Sarah had told them that Martin kept calling her Laura during the home invasion, that may be enough for the police to say, "Well, the dude must have been a little unhinged and in his grief just thought that Ms. Waters was his dead wife."
It doesn't bother or surprise me that Jon ends up back at Wall. Like Tormund says, he has the real north in him, and it's where he feels most at home. (It's kind of like in Star Trek IV, when they have to punish Kirk for everything he did in III, but he did just help save the world, so they demoted him to be a captain of a starship, which is the only thing he ever wanted to do, anyway.) I think the Free Folk were going back north to return to their original homes beyond the Wall now that the AOTD was destroyed, and Jon was going with them (maybe to live permanently or maybe just to accompany them so he knew where they were).
BUT: When Jon leaves King's Landing at the end, he's accompanied by two men in black. I'm assuming they're men from the Shadow Tower, since they're not anyone we recognize (so probably not from Castle Black), and who knows how many people survived Eastwatch.
But, they're in black. Which means they're probably official members of the Watch. So why, when Jon returns to Castle Black, are the Free Folk the only people there? Why is Tormund the apparent dude in charge when there are at least two other men who have been officially manning the Wall for longer? Why not bring the guy in charge at the ST in and make him the leader at Castle Black?
The hymen is a muscle that basically surrounds the inside of the vagina. (Picture a horseshoe of balloons that an athlete runs through during special events.) SOMETIMES, during intercourse, the muscle can get bruised or torn. It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen often enough that historically, people saw an intact hymen as proof of virginity.
But intercourse in general can cause exterior bruising around the vagina as well. (It's actually something ER doctors will look for when examining assault victims, because during consensual intercourse, the bruising ends up in a different location than it does if the deed were non-consensual.)
So, to answer your original question, yes, an examination can determine whether or not a woman has had intercourse. IF, the intercourse was relatively recent. (If she hasn't gotten it on in over a year, an exam might not reveal much -- any bruises or tears would have healed.) Since Sayuri's's interaction with the Baron had been within the week (I think), there would still be bruising evident if anything had happened.