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Thanks for commenting. I understood why he killed the boy, but did they explain why the Asian Sister, the Emperor's Truthsayer (sorry, forgot her name), also was burned to death remotely? Was she mentally linked with the boy somehow?
Good questions. I remember getting into protracted debates over plot holes in this movie back in the IMDB message board days.
The one I recall that wasn't answered satisfactorily was, if Stephen Spielberg is on record (as someone back then said to me) that the tripods aren't "techno-organic" meaning they're not melded to the alien pilot's physiology or life force or whatever, then why do their force fields drop when the pilot gets sick? It would be like a tank that loses all of its armor when its driver gets knocked out.
You can try but you'll probably be lost
Haha
When they say he's got skeletons in his closet, they're actually just his relatives.
That must be it!
Good list. One that was left off is that mainstream America is tired of being scolded about pronouns, and seeing men who think they're women injure girls while playing in women's sports--and Kamala was on the record saying she'd pay for sex-change operations for inmates and illegal aliens in prison. She was too extreme on that count.
The other bit of icing is Donald Trump's presidential win is going to be certified in Congress in January by the candidate he beat, Vice President Kamala Harris.
I guess it's Here today, gone tomorrow.
(puts on sunglasses)
I agree. There also wasn't any real "wow" moment where the camera lingers on a tornado. I have a suspicion the director had a New Age concern about glorifying a disaster that kills people and ruins houses so he didn't want to focus too much attention on it out of "tornado guilt."
I've heard it's because they don't want innocent people who happen to have that same name being confused with the assassin. E.g., there are a lot of John Smiths, so the assassin would be identified by his full name, like "John Heathcliffe Smith" to try to avoid people thinking it was their old school buddy John Smith who tried to kill the President.
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