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@@garretthendricks6350 Comics/books and arguably in the movies throughout the franchise. It's mentioned that the greatest screw-up during one outbreak was assuming the gestation time would limit the spread. The first queen had matured in weeks, but as more appeared they figured out that the gestation period was exactly as long as they decided, and coincidentally that was fairly consistent throughout the movies, starting with Aliens, where the bursting happens when the marines show up in the hive and interact with the host (posing an immediate danger to it), and twice in Alien 3, first when the host is left unsupervised and later the moment Ripley yeets herself into the furnace (again, immediate danger). Resurrection leaves it unclear for most hosts, but one host has his burst when he's shot (immediate danger), and in AvP & AvP2 the gestation period is seemingly as short as possible, except for the impregnated predator, which the chestburster first seemingly uses to get onto the ship and then bursts out of after being left alone. At some point it's going to start to sound stupid to just write it off as accidental inconsistency or coincidence.
"Double Jeopardy" She was correct in her use of the clause. She was convicted of murdering her husband, Nick, and as since she was already specifically convicted of his murder. The understanding of this being " how do you convict someone for killing a person who is already legally dead and that you have already sentenced for that murder?" She would likely have her parole revoked and returned to jail, but she would get out again in a few years.
The double jeopardy rule states that if you've been tried for a specific instance of a crime and that trial arrived at a verdict, you cannot be tried again for the same instance of that offense. Even that has limits. If you are convicted and the verdict is set aside on appeal, the prosecutor can try the case again. If, on appeal, the verdict is reversed, the prosecutor cannot. In this case she would be accused of a separate instance of murder. The protagonist could argue at sentencing that she had already served a prison sentence for killing that same individual, and this would be very likely to weigh in her favor, but the double jeopardy rule itself would not apply.
You are convicted for a crime/event not a specific victim. Otherwise bank robbers could rob the same bank again after getting out of prison or the same abusive spouse couldn't get arrested twice. There are also many other things a prosecutor could charge her with: murder in the first, second, third degree, manslaughter first and second degree, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, adult with intent to unite, countless laws go into effect if something is done in furtherance of a crime, state level and federal level court cases are different too....etc
That is not correct. The law states that you cannot be tried of a specific instance of a crime twice. Example: I am on trial for theft. The case goes to court and I'm found to be innocent. Later, evidence is revealed that proves 100% that I did in fact steal. Too bad. I was already tried for that instance of theft. That's the double jeopardy law. What it is not is I am tried for stealing and found guilty, but it's later proven I didn't steal so I can now go steal for real and not be convicted which is the logic applied in the movie.
She could be charged by the state of Louisiana of murder however what time of murder we don't know and it is very likely that a jury wouldn't convict due to the circumstances and that she would be sent back for a perol violation before being reunited with her son and get all her dead husband's money. Now it would have been smarter for her to not kill him because he would have been sent to jail.
@thehomeschoolinglibrarian I am sure they would try, but very unlikely to get anywhere. It would be difficult to get an indictment against her for killing someone who is legally dead and for which she has currently serving a sentence. Parole violation certainly, send her back, but she is out again in 2 years after public pressure.
How does that explain the first movie, tho? It's isolated in a vehicle traveling through space. Wouldn't the need be to have a queen in order for a hive to exist?
@@oscarsantiago1038 That could be explained as some form of danger/panic interpreted by the the Xenomorph as the ship moves away from the hive and it can no longer sense the queen, thus bursting free sooner.
@@oscarsantiago1038 sadly with the disregarded plot lines don't make continuity between Alien and Aliens. As in the delete scene you see Brett is being turned into a cocoon with Dallas on the wall. So I can't give you the cannon explanation but Alien does throw a wrench in a bunch of the lore
The time travel stuff itself isn't the only thing that makes no sense in Looper. What about the stupid plot device that they have to send people to the past to get murdered because it is so hard to get rid of bodies in the future? That is so stupid, it hurts.
The way the third rule is written, technically, a Mogwai can only eat up until 1159pm the day he is born. The rule should have been Don't feed them between sunset and sunrise.
Whilst that would've been better, logically speaking, the plot requires that Billy accidentally feeds them after midnight once Spike sabotages his alarm clock. But difficult to do that if he checked outside for sunset...
My favorite exception to the superhero "no kill" rule: Wonder Woman. She's a warrior. She has no qualms at all about killing her enemies, if she thinks they deserve it. This has actually caused tension with Superman and/or Batman several times in various comic book and cartoon versions of the Justice League, which makes for interesting stories.
She's super strong. In most cases, she doesnt have to kill them, she can just incapacitate them and leave them disabled for the cops so if she really DOES have to take a life, its because the enemy is just too dangerous to keep alive. It makes sense.
The Batman example is particularly silly, given that his various vehicles are equipped with machine guns and rockets! It also doesn't make any sense, given how counter-productive the rule is - as well explored, though without a satisfactory conclusion, in _Batman: Under the Red Hood_ . Also, as pointed out in the greatest Batman film of all time, _The Lego Batman Movie_ , no matter how often Batman keeps beating and imprisoning his various enemies, they just keep escaping and coming back, hence causing the deaths of innumerable innocent people!
@@anthonyalles1833 In the comics, Batman doesn't have those weapons on the vehicles. That was actually the biggest complaint that many people had about the 1988 Batman movie.
The Owl House actually joked about the Quidditch rules by having Luz rant about how an item like the snitch ruins the point of the game invalidates everyone’s effort 😂
Remember the PS2 game? I once lost while playing on the hardest difficulty because at one point it’ll force you to chase snitch, meanwhile my team was getting blown out in the background and even tho I got the snitch I still lost smh
@@BR-jw7pm Don’t forget that it is fucking awesome and a case study on how to steal everything from other media and mix it with heart so it turns out incredibly fun and lovable. 😉
@@Dimetropteryx based on the theory I heard, the person brought up a lot of good points so I don’t think it’s any dumber than “intelligent aliens travel to planet that’s 70% their weakness”
Think I have only seen Double Jeopardy once. Someone refresh my memory: do circumstances make it unfeasible for Libby to prove that her allegedly slain husband and her living target are the same man? Seems like the smartest course.
No, She was convicted on circumstantial evidence and the amount of blood from the scene. His blood will still likely be held from the case and DNA was a thing at the time, she can easily prove they are the same person. Even if that wasn't the case dental and medical records could also be used. In addition to the DNA of their son being used to identify her husband as the father. Multiple convenient ways to establish her former husband's identity
People criticized Henry Cavill's Superman for killing Zod but didn't seem to have an issue with Christopher Reeve's Superman doing the same with a smile on his face. When you drop a depowered Kryptonian down an icy cavern, they don't survive that.
Why would you criticise what superman done in 1980. People back then done something today's weak generation can't do, enjoy the movie and don't look for reasons to criticise. Man of steel: neck break, batman vs superman: Martha. Superman 2025: looks like Henry, the s, puts his costume on slow, too many characters, James Gunn.
Captain America did survive a long fall into the ice… and so did Bucky. A falls-into-water-and-we-don’t-see-a-body is the Schrodinger‘s cat of dead characters. The writer can say they are alive at will.
@@jamespope7669bro let's keep it real I was there too and the whole turn back time by rotating the world backwards was always criticized, plus a lot of fans were very vocal about Lex not being a business tycoon. The difference is that social media didn't exist.
@oscarsantiago1038 Technically, the Earth didn't spin backward - it just appeared to spin backward as Superman went back in time. So, for a short time, there were two Supermen (Supermans?) on Earth after the bomb exploded. 🤓
People just need to nitpick on Signs. Ok, there is water in the atmosphere, but if you stand outside on a sunny day do you get wet? No. That answers the question on why they weren't bothered by it until they had direct contact with it. And just for fun, Why did they pick a planet covered in water? One easy answer is they were not planning on moving in. Just stripping it for resources. People do it all the time. As long as you are over here you are fine, but if you go over there it could kill you. For the most part this list makes sense. Anything dealing with time travel is a guessing game since it's not actually possible. So trying to find logic in a fantasy situation is practically impossible. And the superheroes no killing rule makes perfect sense, it's just hard to adhere to it perfectly as in some cases, you might not have a choice.
Christopher Reeve's Superman killed Zod, too. At least the newer had a reason: to stop him from killing those people. Reeve's had depowered Zod so he wasn't a threat to anyone... and then killed him anyway.
He doesn’t kill him - he just drops him down a tunnel and it doesn’t show you him die. However, there is a deleted scene where you see all 3 kryptonians being led away in handcuffs.
Agreed, a masked killer that answers to no one sounds like a nightmare. The Boys is all about this: the lives of powerless people in a society where superheroes are killers. The comic book KINGDOM COME is about this.
X-Men aging - What you have to understand about the prequels is that the studio desperately wanted to "reboot" the X-Men franchise with a younger cast, but they didn't want the fan backlash that would have resulted from just remaking them. So they made a prequel, allowing them to cast younger actors. Then they threw in some (mental) time travel to change the timeline. Then they basically had their reboot, and could just ignore the previous movies, and logic.
8:54 I've felt that the writers took the Rule of Two to mean there was a quota system for the Sith, which actually would weaken them if it worked the way the writers interpreted, since they could never grow their numbers, and would always be on the verge of being wiped out. When I first hear of it, I believe the phrasing was "There are always two, the Master and the Apprentice," and I took it to mean that no Sith acted alone: The Sith you see is the Apprentice, doing the Master's bidding while the Master stays in the shadows, not revealing themself unless the time is right and their plan calls for it. And if a Master reveals themself, it would mean that either the Jedi have walked into the precise location for a trap, or the Master is under orders from HIS Master. I've also thought that a Sith Master might have more than one Apprentice at a time; and the Apprentices stay in the shadows, training competing, and jockeying for position until one is called up for a mission. ONly a foolish Master would bring two Apprentices on a mission: their rivalry means that they would sabotage each other's efforts and put the whole plan in jeopardy.
Two things: The Alien gestation period really came into play in "Aliens" when Larry's chestburster came out exactly when it was needed, and the "No Kill" rule is honestly quite stupid, because, as far as I'm concerned, it's not the act of killing itself, but the reason behind the killing that separates hero from villain!
"The first two rules make perfectly simple sense." Does the water one make sense, though? Do they not drink water? Weren't gremlins drinking at the bar? Aside from this, the movie is taking place during Christmas with snow all over.
maybe the alchol doesnt trigger the shift? Just as well else the bar would have been overrun. Maybe they dont drink it, they have to be touched by it. Questions that needed to be asked when filming, I guess.
In the alien franchise, I always thought the biggest problem was their acid blood. What type of acid was it and what was it about their body chemistry that meant they didn't get dissolved? Was it fluoroantimonic acid and their blood vessels made of teflon?
Well, acids can be contained in glass… Your stomach has acids in it that would eat through all the organs around it, except the pepsin coating inside the stomach stops that from happening so it could be the lining of the blood vessels etc
After birthing during Kane's last meal, how did the alien gain the body mass large enough to carry Brett into the overhead one, max two, days later? Whattz it been eating???
@@user-et9de2hs5l I got the feeling they were eating each other in the caves til they were finally able to break out, thats why there were so many weird skeletons around.
No kill policy is obviously not followed by members of the Avengers. In Civil War, Cap hits several average people in the head with his shield and kicks a truck into another. You could argue Cap knows what he's doing, but an indestructible object even being deflected before hitting a normal human in the skull definitely has to cause fatal damage to the skull
The X-Men aging issue also gives Wolverine a pass. It was established long ago his mutant healing factor applies to aging as well keeping him young far beyond his years.
I've had the Quidditch discussion before with friends. Harry's success in the movies tends to skew the obvious. Catching a snitch should be damn near impossible. Making the pursuit of it practically irrelevant. Honestly "Seeker" should be the job you put the least talented player on. :) Even "children" being as small as they are at 12 to 15 could in no way ever hope to catch a magical hummingbird that can literally fly in any direction and turn instantaneously. At any point in Chamber of Secrets that snitch could have gone in any spherical direction. Harry simply reaching forward for it would have no hope of catching it. And it is silly that the snitch would just fly in a straight line, in hopes of just being faster. In the 1000 years that Hogwarts has been open, logically, maybe 6 people could have "lucked" into catching one. As silly as it is to apply physics to Quidditch, inertia and G forces would literally prevent a human from catching a snitch. Ever.
Eating after midnight does not cause Mogwai to pop out of Gizmo’s back - that’s water. Eating after midnight causes Mogwai to enter a cocoon state and metamorphose into Gremlins. I also took the “Don’t feed after midnight” rule to mean you can’t feed them between midnight and 1200 noon.
Outcome of the World Cup match in Goblet of Fire: Ireland is beating Bulgaria by hundreds of points, so Viktor rushes the snitch to end it. Outcome in the movie: indeterminate.
Why didn't acid blood "Alien" make the list. First movie: a little cut on a face hugger threatens the ship. Aliens: blow a couple to smithereens, and it's all good?
It also makes no sense that the Alien grows from a chestburster to a 8 feet tall monster within a few hours, especially without food, like in the case of the first one on board of the Nostromo.
What if the aliens in Signs consider the Earth a dangerous weapons deposit? The aliens might just be checking the place out and the ones you see are like a survey expedition.
The part that annoyed me in looper was that they never confirmed in any way if Kid Blue was Abe. The way the movie is written and acted it definitely feels like that's where the story was headed but like it got lost in the script rewrites somewhere so you have all the hints building it up with no pay off.
Signs wasn't about aliens, it was about Demons. Bo is mentioned as an "angel" when she was born, and thus she is inadvertently leaving "holy water" around the house and that's why the demon is injured by it.
The Rule of two makes perfect sense. It's perfectly clear and everyone knows what it is and why it is. The fact that not all in-universe characters decide to follow it to the letter in no way confuses the principle itself. People don't always follow rules, it's not a contradiction, it's a fact.
If you are talking about the clip outside that mad lady's house, they were also wearing clothes, perhaps it protected them from active contact? It has to be skin to water contact.
😱 MIND BLOWN 😱 -- In ALIENS - keeping with Alien Time Rule -- Getting Kane out of the Hold - Out of the Derelict - Back to Safety -- Lets say 10 Hours... This means Newt was only alone for no more than TWO DAYS before the Marines Arrived
How about the fact in Looper the whole reason they do that stupid looping shit is because murder is impossible to get away with in the future. But the whole story revolves around the fact Willis' wife was killed.
What confused me the most was Alien 4. How did they get the DNA material of an infected Ripley, WITH the chestburster still inside her to clone her multiple times? Even if they got Ripley's DNA, I don't think the chestburster's DNA would hitch a ride on it. That's not how that works Batman's no kill policy never made any sense to me, especially because of Arkham Asylum's apparent revolving door confinement actions Joker would escape from Arkham asylum, he kills a number of people, Batman catches him and sends him back to Arkham Riddler escapes from Arkham asylum, he kills a number of people, Batman catches him and sends him back to Arkham Mr. Freeze escapes from Arkham asylum, he kills a number of people, Batman catches him and sends him back to Arkham Ad Infinitum First off, why is it that they only go to this particular asylum? Is there no other facilities to take them? Maybe a REAL prison? Does this mean that EVERY SINGKE major criminal in Gotham is mentally insane Why, if Batman has a no kill policy, doesn't Gotham have capital punishment? Especially considering that they constantly kill people in VERY gruesome ways Batman never made sense to me because of this
WRT _Signs_ , why don't advanced aliens, capable of interstellar flight, ever wear clothes?? Some waterproof uniforms might have proved useful when attacking a water-logged planet. Humans stopped fighting naked back in the stone age!
The show Owl House poked fun at quidditch with their game grudgby. Whoever catches the rusty smidge before time runs out automatically wins. Willow says all magical sports have a rule like that. While Luz, the main character, says that it completely undermines all their efforts throughout the game and it’s a stupid rule.
I love the movie "Signs" but I did notice the thing about the water too. I grew up in the country and I've run through many a corn field as a kid. They are heavy with dew especially in morning and night. The first alien spotting is in a cornfield. They would have been soaked. I thought, "Oh, well. That's why they call it 'science fiction'.
I've always had an annoyance with almost all space traveling societies that have not advanced past the chair to the seat belt making battles or any bump in the cosmic road a real problem.
The X-Men movies are deservingly ridiculed for lacking consistency with time. Magneto was a victim of the Holocaust, so that tends to anchor the time period of when the films take place. We all know the MCU can't change the characters without considering Magnet suddenly having a slower aging process or just having him not featured, which may be like Superman without Lex Luthor. Possible, but controversial.
i'm going to take an issue with two things mentioned in the "no kill" policy. first, setting a building on fire w/o trapping people inside it doesn't kill them unless they are painfully stupid. Second, not saving someone's life isn't killing them. if that were how it was decided then anyone who wasn't a strong swimmer that chose not to risk their own life could be charged with murder. a long with a whole host of other people in other situations. while i'm fully willing to accept that maybe i'm not remembering the burning of the league of shadows headquarters correctly, you can't convince me he killed raz just because he bailed out of the train and didn't take raz with him. raz put himself in that train. had batman thrown him into a moving train about to crash then yeah i could say he killed him.
In double jeopardy her husband is a criminal fugitive and a known dangerous scumbag who the system would not care if anyone killed him. And since his wife didn't kill him, lawyers need not be drawn into this mess.
The rule of two theres only ever 1 master and apprentice. The apprentice is always trying to kill his master taking his spot thus opening up another apprentice spot which can be filled by someone pre selected like starkiller. The people on exogal and the inquisitors are part of the sith empire but are not sith themselves. The people on exogal would be the equivalent of a person working as a janitor in the jedi temple. Darth maul was supposed to be just a kind of throw away assassin (basically what general Greivious was) however when Sidious manged to kill his master thus taking the master spot maul was elevated to apprentice rank until his defeat by by obiwan
Roanoke Gaming I think talks about that, as well as giving an excellent break down of how the water could work the way it does quite plausibly if they are in fact aliens.
Thing with the aliens in Signs is not only the residula H20 in the air or 70% of a planet covered in water; but the sure likelihood of rain, they don't even have suits to protect themselves. Never saw that movie and sure never plan to.
The water weakness was also present in the Alien Nation movies but that was salt water, not fresh and even when they were living in LA which is apparently closer to the ocean than other states, they still developed a rash til their bodies got used to the salt air. This is an example of a water weakness done right. Signs was an example of doing it wrong.
When it comes to aliens I'm willing to give a little bit of a benefit of the doubt since it appears that they are in an engineered species. I would guess different iterations have different gestation
The best, pointlessly dumb aliens appeared in War of the Worlds. Where the Aliens die when exposed to our atmosphere… all that technology and they couldn’t tell that getting out of their ships would be fatal.
I always considered sw rule of 2 either misunderstood or really stupid. Especially when it's been established that the sith at one point in time had a planet. It was always poorly explained.
I totally agree with the xenomorph gestation period's inconsistency. It's consistent between Alien and Aliens. In Alien 3 Ripley does say she is carrying a queen embryo, so you can understand where the argument of a queen taking longer to gestate comes from. But indeed, AVP and AVP Requiem bring the time period down to minutes, which is inclusive of the time the facehugger is attached to the host. And don't get me started on Alien: Covenant. Yuck. Oh, and my favourite X-Men movie is Logan. And I think you'll be getting a lot of votes for Logan, too.
How does Quidditch "make no sense"? I'd argue that players bringing their own brooms is the bigger issue, but whats wrong with the scoring system? Plenty of sports have different scoring for different "achievements". American football has options to score 1, 2, 3, and 6 points. Basketball has 1, 2, and 3 point scoring. With quidditch, you could dumb the the points to 1 point per goal and 15 points for grabbing the snitch. I actually like that the game doesn't have a timer and instead depends on a player ending the game, its a unique and interesting twist.
The films Signs with aliens having issues with water, loved also that they could not open or break through a wooden door😂. So much tech and no tool or weapon to break them.😊
The Quidditch argument always ignores the fact that point differentials throughout the season play a part in the final rankings. Based on the usual argument, a lot of sports leagues are stupid. For example, in the World Cup, if there are multiple teams with the same record, the team with the largest goal differential advances. So, if you win, you want to win by as many goals as possible. If you have to lose, you want to lose by as few goals as possible. Yes, it is best to win every game. However, how you lose also has a major impact on advancement. So, yes, catching the snitch to end the game and still lose the game by a few points is better than losing by a large amount because all wins and losses are not weighted equally.
8:24 It prevents a person from being convicted twice for the same event (barring cases where a crime breaks both State and Federal statues; as long as the statutes are different, such as the Federal level charging for Murder, and the State level charging for 'Hate Crime,' then the single event, which from these examples would be killing a minority in a VERY disrespectful way, (crucifying a Jew? Lynching a Black person?), creates two separate crimes), but it's MAIN purpose is to prevent 'jury shopping,' retrying a person who has been found innocent in the hopes of getting a guilty verdict the second time around.
My headcanon for the xenomorph thing (doesnt completely fit, but if you squint...) If that theyre somehow reacting to the environment theyre in, tied in with the host species. In the first movie, it was the only one in the area, so it grew fast, to lessen the chance to be discovered before it hatches. Aliens may have started that way, but by the movie, there was a colony to protect the hosts, so no rush. (Dont remember the particulars of the book that detailed the fall of hadleys, its been a sec.) The queen in 3 never made sense. im not sure if its still canon, but back then, they all started iut as drones, and if there was no queen, one would transform into it. And if it was the oldest/only it should have sped up.
but batman doesnt kill Two-Face? he just knocks Harvey out and they put him in prison and "cover it up" as him being killed by Batman cuz they dont need him as a Hero right now - iv got no argument for the rest of it haha
Yes he does kill two-Face. Albeit not intentionally. No way to know for aure if he'd survive the fall but it was the only way to save the kid. The part they cover up is that Harvy had gone bananas and started killing people, it would bring his recent court success into question and all the gansters would weasel their way back out of prison.
The "Don't expose the creature to water" rule is utterly stupid because water is the basis of any complex lifeform. Even protozoons like bacteria need water to function. The Mogwai is clearly a multi-cellular organism with body liquids (based on water) and a metabolism that needs water to work. Everything he eats and the air he breathes contain water. The Wicked Witch being killed with water in The Wizard Of Oz is an exeption because it happened in Dorothy's dream, and dreams don't need to make sense.
How are the rules of Quidditch hard to understand?! It’s pretty simple! There’s nothing weird about it. You get 10 points every time you get the quaffle through a hoop. If you catch the snitch you get 150 points, and win the game! The points go towards the Quidditch cup! So you can have 160 points and lose the game, but your points go towards the quidditch cup at the end of the year. In pro Quidditch it’s the same. Your points will win your team the cup. The rules make perfect sense! 🙄
The aliens in Signs would most likely want to take the risk of invading the Earth for harvesting because resources are scarce in the galaxy. Earth would be a prize for alien species (we would do the same if we could travel the stars).
When it comes to Sign, the alien theory is the redirect from a non-secular take at face value, but it's a movie about a man's lost faith and going by the religious angle, the water was blessed by his daughter. Not aliens but demon. I'm not even a religious person but viewing it from that angle changes the movie and doesn't take away from it.
Harry Potter was a shitty story written by a woman who wasn't a writer for her kids as a bed time story, and yet for some reason adults have decided to spend decades obsessing over it, and wonder why it doesn't make sense...
10:26 Leaving somebody to die by their own wvil machinations is not you killing them. You could argue it is still immoral, but not every immoral act is equivalent to killing.
The absolute worst case of misuse of the Prime Directive was Star Trek: Insurrections. Picard allows the B'aku to stay on the planet and fights with Starfleet over it, when the species in question is not only a Warp Capable species, but IT ISN'T EVEN THEIR PLANET IN THE FIRST PLACE. They not only moved there, but they also kicked out half the planet's population, and don't want to leave because the planet makes them immortal, they just want everyone to go away and leave them alone to be immortal and screw everyone else. Said planet is a medical marvel that could save millions of lives in a movie that takes place right in the middle of the devastating Dominion War in which over a billion lives were canonically lost. They literally had to make the S'ona and the Federation guy helping them be moustache-twirlingly evil in order to make us forget what Picard is doing. Also, you mention Looper having fun with the fact that the rules don't make sense, but don't bring up that they did the same thing in Gremlins 2? They literally have a character making fun of the "after midnight" rule, and have a gremlin burst through his electronic station and punch him in the face in the middle of it. It's hilarious.
About number 1. There is the theory that in Signs the aliens are actually demons. That's why Mel Gibson plays a shepard who lost his faith, they also call the daughter "little angel" and she is who leaves the water everywhere, being water touched by an angel "holy water" and that is why it hurts those "aliens" (demons).
Sometimes you should just enjoy the film as presented; Sometimes you should pick out the logical mistakes. Some of these have merit, but others are just... give it a rest and enjoy the movie.
The alien's gestation period is exactly as long as the chestburster decides it is. Shit was settled in the lore over 30 years ago.
Like the host (Briefly) found alive just as the marines were passing through the xenomorph hive.
I suspect they've never read any of the lore. 😅
Is the "lore" the movies or comics/books?
@@jamesianhutchison1165 I suspect they've never watched any of these movies, most of the time!
@@garretthendricks6350 Comics/books and arguably in the movies throughout the franchise. It's mentioned that the greatest screw-up during one outbreak was assuming the gestation time would limit the spread. The first queen had matured in weeks, but as more appeared they figured out that the gestation period was exactly as long as they decided, and coincidentally that was fairly consistent throughout the movies, starting with Aliens, where the bursting happens when the marines show up in the hive and interact with the host (posing an immediate danger to it), and twice in Alien 3, first when the host is left unsupervised and later the moment Ripley yeets herself into the furnace (again, immediate danger). Resurrection leaves it unclear for most hosts, but one host has his burst when he's shot (immediate danger), and in AvP & AvP2 the gestation period is seemingly as short as possible, except for the impregnated predator, which the chestburster first seemingly uses to get onto the ship and then bursts out of after being left alone. At some point it's going to start to sound stupid to just write it off as accidental inconsistency or coincidence.
Kirk wasn't demoted for breaking the prime directive it was for lying on an official report
No.10-thank you. Even as I kid I remember saying, “isnt every day after midnight?”
I always wondered why in the final battle between Billy Stripe and Gizmo in the dept store, Stripe gets wet a few times and nothing happens.
@@donnywilliamson5807watch Gremlins2. It has the perfect answer when a character has this very question.
"Double Jeopardy" She was correct in her use of the clause. She was convicted of murdering her husband, Nick, and as since she was already specifically convicted of his murder. The understanding of this being " how do you convict someone for killing a person who is already legally dead and that you have already sentenced for that murder?" She would likely have her parole revoked and returned to jail, but she would get out again in a few years.
The double jeopardy rule states that if you've been tried for a specific instance of a crime and that trial arrived at a verdict, you cannot be tried again for the same instance of that offense. Even that has limits. If you are convicted and the verdict is set aside on appeal, the prosecutor can try the case again. If, on appeal, the verdict is reversed, the prosecutor cannot.
In this case she would be accused of a separate instance of murder. The protagonist could argue at sentencing that she had already served a prison sentence for killing that same individual, and this would be very likely to weigh in her favor, but the double jeopardy rule itself would not apply.
You are convicted for a crime/event not a specific victim. Otherwise bank robbers could rob the same bank again after getting out of prison or the same abusive spouse couldn't get arrested twice. There are also many other things a prosecutor could charge her with: murder in the first, second, third degree, manslaughter first and second degree, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, adult with intent to unite, countless laws go into effect if something is done in furtherance of a crime, state level and federal level court cases are different too....etc
That is not correct. The law states that you cannot be tried of a specific instance of a crime twice.
Example: I am on trial for theft. The case goes to court and I'm found to be innocent. Later, evidence is revealed that proves 100% that I did in fact steal. Too bad. I was already tried for that instance of theft. That's the double jeopardy law.
What it is not is I am tried for stealing and found guilty, but it's later proven I didn't steal so I can now go steal for real and not be convicted which is the logic applied in the movie.
She could be charged by the state of Louisiana of murder however what time of murder we don't know and it is very likely that a jury wouldn't convict due to the circumstances and that she would be sent back for a perol violation before being reunited with her son and get all her dead husband's money. Now it would have been smarter for her to not kill him because he would have been sent to jail.
@thehomeschoolinglibrarian I am sure they would try, but very unlikely to get anywhere. It would be difficult to get an indictment against her for killing someone who is legally dead and for which she has currently serving a sentence. Parole violation certainly, send her back, but she is out again in 2 years after public pressure.
The Xenomorph one is explained. The time is different depending on the needs of the hive, if drones are needed asap they'll develop faster
How does that explain the first movie, tho? It's isolated in a vehicle traveling through space. Wouldn't the need be to have a queen in order for a hive to exist?
@@oscarsantiago1038 That could be explained as some form of danger/panic interpreted by the the Xenomorph as the ship moves away from the hive and it can no longer sense the queen, thus bursting free sooner.
@@oscarsantiago1038 sadly with the disregarded plot lines don't make continuity between Alien and Aliens. As in the delete scene you see Brett is being turned into a cocoon with Dallas on the wall. So I can't give you the cannon explanation but Alien does throw a wrench in a bunch of the lore
The "Rule of Two" is the best piece of misinformation the Sith ever sold to the Jedi
The time travel stuff itself isn't the only thing that makes no sense in Looper. What about the stupid plot device that they have to send people to the past to get murdered because it is so hard to get rid of bodies in the future?
That is so stupid, it hurts.
How’s it stupid? No body, no murder.
Especially since they accidentally killed Bruce Willis' wife. If they can kill her and get away with it, why not the others?
Time travel shenanigans aside, t he thing that I always questioned about Looper, was "How does future Joe become left-handed?"
Cause his right hand is out of action from bashing the bishop 😂
In 2006, there was an animated movie called Barnyard. The main character was a male cow.
Cows and bulls are actually separate animals. It just so happens they share names for the males and females. Male cows become burgers.
@@bbsy1 I shown this to my little sister and her exact response was: "thats like saying chickens and roosters are different".
A male cow is called a steer. Get out mote, bud.
Edit: get out *more
The way the third rule is written, technically, a Mogwai can only eat up until 1159pm the day he is born.
The rule should have been Don't feed them between sunset and sunrise.
Whilst that would've been better, logically speaking, the plot requires that Billy accidentally feeds them after midnight once Spike sabotages his alarm clock. But difficult to do that if he checked outside for sunset...
I always assumed it was from midnight to sunrise, but I never thought about the timezone question.
My favorite exception to the superhero "no kill" rule: Wonder Woman. She's a warrior. She has no qualms at all about killing her enemies, if she thinks they deserve it. This has actually caused tension with Superman and/or Batman several times in various comic book and cartoon versions of the Justice League, which makes for interesting stories.
And yet, she tends to follow it while on League missions.
She's super strong. In most cases, she doesnt have to kill them, she can just incapacitate them and leave them disabled for the cops so if she really DOES have to take a life, its because the enemy is just too dangerous to keep alive. It makes sense.
The Batman example is particularly silly, given that his various vehicles are equipped with machine guns and rockets! It also doesn't make any sense, given how counter-productive the rule is - as well explored, though without a satisfactory conclusion, in _Batman: Under the Red Hood_ . Also, as pointed out in the greatest Batman film of all time, _The Lego Batman Movie_ , no matter how often Batman keeps beating and imprisoning his various enemies, they just keep escaping and coming back, hence causing the deaths of innumerable innocent people!
@@anthonyalles1833 In the comics, Batman doesn't have those weapons on the vehicles. That was actually the biggest complaint that many people had about the 1988 Batman movie.
@@yagsyags5694 He does seem a little 90s era James Bond with the gadgets but I figured that was kinda cool.
The Owl House actually joked about the Quidditch rules by having Luz rant about how an item like the snitch ruins the point of the game invalidates everyone’s effort 😂
Remember the PS2 game? I once lost while playing on the hardest difficulty because at one point it’ll force you to chase snitch, meanwhile my team was getting blown out in the background and even tho I got the snitch I still lost smh
What's the Owl House? 🦉 🏠
@@alm2187 a Disney Channel show about a teenage girl who discovers a magical world and studies to be a witch
@@BR-jw7pm Don’t forget that it is fucking awesome and a case study on how to steal everything from other media and mix it with heart so it turns out incredibly fun and lovable. 😉
The aliens in Signs weren’t aliens but demons. The water is holy water.
I’ve heard that theory and adds a layer of depth to a film everyone writes off as “decent at best”
Exactly!!
@@BR-jw7pm I wouldn't say that making it dumber adds depth.
@@Dimetropteryx based on the theory I heard, the person brought up a lot of good points so I don’t think it’s any dumber than “intelligent aliens travel to planet that’s 70% their weakness”
@@BR-jw7pmdepends on the reason they travelled here. What if it was out of sheer desperation
Think I have only seen Double Jeopardy once.
Someone refresh my memory: do circumstances make it unfeasible for Libby to prove that her allegedly slain husband and her living target are the same man? Seems like the smartest course.
No, She was convicted on circumstantial evidence and the amount of blood from the scene. His blood will still likely be held from the case and DNA was a thing at the time, she can easily prove they are the same person. Even if that wasn't the case dental and medical records could also be used. In addition to the DNA of their son being used to identify her husband as the father. Multiple convenient ways to establish her former husband's identity
People criticized Henry Cavill's Superman for killing Zod but didn't seem to have an issue with Christopher Reeve's Superman doing the same with a smile on his face. When you drop a depowered Kryptonian down an icy cavern, they don't survive that.
In the Donner cut, they lived at the end.
Why would you criticise what superman done in 1980. People back then done something today's weak generation can't do, enjoy the movie and don't look for reasons to criticise. Man of steel: neck break, batman vs superman: Martha. Superman 2025: looks like Henry, the s, puts his costume on slow, too many characters, James Gunn.
Captain America did survive a long fall into the ice… and so did Bucky. A falls-into-water-and-we-don’t-see-a-body is the Schrodinger‘s cat of dead characters. The writer can say they are alive at will.
@@jamespope7669bro let's keep it real I was there too and the whole turn back time by rotating the world backwards was always criticized, plus a lot of fans were very vocal about Lex not being a business tycoon. The difference is that social media didn't exist.
@oscarsantiago1038 Technically, the Earth didn't spin backward - it just appeared to spin backward as Superman went back in time.
So, for a short time, there were two Supermen (Supermans?) on Earth after the bomb exploded.
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People just need to nitpick on Signs. Ok, there is water in the atmosphere, but if you stand outside on a sunny day do you get wet? No. That answers the question on why they weren't bothered by it until they had direct contact with it. And just for fun, Why did they pick a planet covered in water? One easy answer is they were not planning on moving in. Just stripping it for resources. People do it all the time. As long as you are over here you are fine, but if you go over there it could kill you.
For the most part this list makes sense. Anything dealing with time travel is a guessing game since it's not actually possible. So trying to find logic in a fantasy situation is practically impossible. And the superheroes no killing rule makes perfect sense, it's just hard to adhere to it perfectly as in some cases, you might not have a choice.
I think it's the fluoride in our water pipes meant for mind control which the aliens weren't expecting
except if that the case why no space suits. We spend billion of dollars creating space suits for our astronaut but they dont for theirs?
Christopher Reeve's Superman killed Zod, too. At least the newer had a reason: to stop him from killing those people. Reeve's had depowered Zod so he wasn't a threat to anyone... and then killed him anyway.
He doesn’t kill him - he just drops him down a tunnel and it doesn’t show you him die. However, there is a deleted scene where you see all 3 kryptonians being led away in handcuffs.
Quite the Randian view of superheroes. The fact that they DON'T kill is what makes them better than us.
Agreed, a masked killer that answers to no one sounds like a nightmare. The Boys is all about this: the lives of powerless people in a society where superheroes are killers. The comic book KINGDOM COME is about this.
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X-Men aging - What you have to understand about the prequels is that the studio desperately wanted to "reboot" the X-Men franchise with a younger cast, but they didn't want the fan backlash that would have resulted from just remaking them. So they made a prequel, allowing them to cast younger actors. Then they threw in some (mental) time travel to change the timeline. Then they basically had their reboot, and could just ignore the previous movies, and logic.
In Gremins you don't get them wet or the reproduce. Feeding them after midnight is vague but that is to prevent the metamorphosis to Gremins.
Gremlins:
a.m. and p.m.
a.m. is literally after midnight.
Actually it means before midday
It's short for anno meridian
@@nosama001 "Ante Meridiem" "before midday"
The amount of water in the Earth's atmosphere was off by a factor of a billion.
8:54 I've felt that the writers took the Rule of Two to mean there was a quota system for the Sith, which actually would weaken them if it worked the way the writers interpreted, since they could never grow their numbers, and would always be on the verge of being wiped out.
When I first hear of it, I believe the phrasing was "There are always two, the Master and the Apprentice," and I took it to mean that no Sith acted alone: The Sith you see is the Apprentice, doing the Master's bidding while the Master stays in the shadows, not revealing themself unless the time is right and their plan calls for it. And if a Master reveals themself, it would mean that either the Jedi have walked into the precise location for a trap, or the Master is under orders from HIS Master.
I've also thought that a Sith Master might have more than one Apprentice at a time; and the Apprentices stay in the shadows, training competing, and jockeying for position until one is called up for a mission. ONly a foolish Master would bring two Apprentices on a mission: their rivalry means that they would sabotage each other's efforts and put the whole plan in jeopardy.
Two things: The Alien gestation period really came into play in "Aliens" when Larry's chestburster came out exactly when it was needed, and the "No Kill" rule is honestly quite stupid, because, as far as I'm concerned, it's not the act of killing itself, but the reason behind the killing that separates hero from villain!
"The first two rules make perfectly simple sense."
Does the water one make sense, though? Do they not drink water? Weren't gremlins drinking at the bar? Aside from this, the movie is taking place during Christmas with snow all over.
maybe the alchol doesnt trigger the shift? Just as well else the bar would have been overrun. Maybe they dont drink it, they have to be touched by it. Questions that needed to be asked when filming, I guess.
In the alien franchise, I always thought the biggest problem was their acid blood. What type of acid was it and what was it about their body chemistry that meant they didn't get dissolved? Was it fluoroantimonic acid and their blood vessels made of teflon?
to be fair, human bodies have a nature defence against stomach acid. Without it, the acid would dissolve us in just days
@@Sarappreciatesjust a lipid coating would be sufficient.
Their blood only turns into that corrosive substance when it mixes with air
Or perhaps their blood doesn't become acidic until exposed to air.
Well, acids can be contained in glass…
Your stomach has acids in it that would eat through all the organs around it, except the pepsin coating inside the stomach stops that from happening so it could be the lining of the blood vessels etc
After birthing during Kane's last meal, how did the alien gain the body mass large enough to carry Brett into the overhead one, max two, days later? Whattz it been eating???
I always thought the same thing about Pitch Black -- what in the world were they eating to have so many and grow so large?!
@@user-et9de2hs5l I got the feeling they were eating each other in the caves til they were finally able to break out, thats why there were so many weird skeletons around.
No kill policy is obviously not followed by members of the Avengers. In Civil War, Cap hits several average people in the head with his shield and kicks a truck into another. You could argue Cap knows what he's doing, but an indestructible object even being deflected before hitting a normal human in the skull definitely has to cause fatal damage to the skull
Not to mention how many Germans he killed during The First Avenger and I dont think he had his special shield yet.
The X-Men aging issue also gives Wolverine a pass. It was established long ago his mutant healing factor applies to aging as well keeping him young far beyond his years.
Yeah Mystique and Wolverine are the only two that can get away with that stunt.
I've had the Quidditch discussion before with friends. Harry's success in the movies tends to skew the obvious. Catching a snitch should be damn near impossible. Making the pursuit of it practically irrelevant. Honestly "Seeker" should be the job you put the least talented player on. :)
Even "children" being as small as they are at 12 to 15 could in no way ever hope to catch a magical hummingbird that can literally fly in any direction and turn instantaneously. At any point in Chamber of Secrets that snitch could have gone in any spherical direction. Harry simply reaching forward for it would have no hope of catching it. And it is silly that the snitch would just fly in a straight line, in hopes of just being faster.
In the 1000 years that Hogwarts has been open, logically, maybe 6 people could have "lucked" into catching one. As silly as it is to apply physics to Quidditch, inertia and G forces would literally prevent a human from catching a snitch. Ever.
first class is the best xmen film, and my favorite in the series .
Eating after midnight does not cause Mogwai to pop out of Gizmo’s back - that’s water. Eating after midnight causes Mogwai to enter a cocoon state and metamorphose into Gremlins.
I also took the “Don’t feed after midnight” rule to mean you can’t feed them between midnight and 1200 noon.
Probably more like midnight and sunrise. Sunlight kills them remember?
@@starscreamthecruel8026 - why does feeding them after 1200 noon have to mean they will be in sunlight?
Outcome of the World Cup match in Goblet of Fire: Ireland is beating Bulgaria by hundreds of points, so Viktor rushes the snitch to end it.
Outcome in the movie: indeterminate.
Why didn't acid blood "Alien" make the list. First movie: a little cut on a face hugger threatens the ship. Aliens: blow a couple to smithereens, and it's all good?
Seeing as midnight is the first moment of the day, the rule blatantly forbids you from feeding mogwai at all.
It also makes no sense that the Alien grows from a chestburster to a 8 feet tall monster within a few hours, especially without food, like in the case of the first one on board of the Nostromo.
I think they grow by absorbing atmosphere into themselves by osmosis
signs
alien masters "we won we have conquered Earth"
Alien race "fine mate, you effing stay there sounds like hell to us"
The protagonist of _Double Jeopardy_ wasn't paroled, she escaped!!
She was on parole, but she was paroled to a halfway house.
What if the aliens in Signs consider the Earth a dangerous weapons deposit? The aliens might just be checking the place out and the ones you see are like a survey expedition.
The part that annoyed me in looper was that they never confirmed in any way if Kid Blue was Abe. The way the movie is written and acted it definitely feels like that's where the story was headed but like it got lost in the script rewrites somewhere so you have all the hints building it up with no pay off.
I'm so glad someone brought up Double Jeopardy
Signs wasn't about aliens, it was about Demons. Bo is mentioned as an "angel" when she was born, and thus she is inadvertently leaving "holy water" around the house and that's why the demon is injured by it.
The Rule of two makes perfect sense. It's perfectly clear and everyone knows what it is and why it is.
The fact that not all in-universe characters decide to follow it to the letter in no way confuses the principle itself. People don't always follow rules, it's not a contradiction, it's a fact.
Not getting the gremlins wet made no sense either, they were able to stand in snow which is made of water yet nothing happened when they did
If you are talking about the clip outside that mad lady's house, they were also wearing clothes, perhaps it protected them from active contact? It has to be skin to water contact.
I figured Ripley's gestation period was extended due to her being impregnated whilst in cryostasis.
😱 MIND BLOWN 😱 -- In ALIENS - keeping with Alien Time Rule -- Getting Kane out of the Hold - Out of the Derelict - Back to Safety -- Lets say 10 Hours... This means Newt was only alone for no more than TWO DAYS before the Marines Arrived
How about the fact in Looper the whole reason they do that stupid looping shit is because murder is impossible to get away with in the future. But the whole story revolves around the fact Willis' wife was killed.
What confused me the most was Alien 4. How did they get the DNA material of an infected Ripley, WITH the chestburster still inside her to clone her multiple times?
Even if they got Ripley's DNA, I don't think the chestburster's DNA would hitch a ride on it. That's not how that works
Batman's no kill policy never made any sense to me, especially because of Arkham Asylum's apparent revolving door confinement actions
Joker would escape from Arkham asylum, he kills a number of people, Batman catches him and sends him back to Arkham
Riddler escapes from Arkham asylum, he kills a number of people, Batman catches him and sends him back to Arkham
Mr. Freeze escapes from Arkham asylum, he kills a number of people, Batman catches him and sends him back to Arkham
Ad Infinitum
First off, why is it that they only go to this particular asylum? Is there no other facilities to take them? Maybe a REAL prison?
Does this mean that EVERY SINGKE major criminal in Gotham is mentally insane
Why, if Batman has a no kill policy, doesn't Gotham have capital punishment? Especially considering that they constantly kill people in VERY gruesome ways
Batman never made sense to me because of this
WRT _Signs_ , why don't advanced aliens, capable of interstellar flight, ever wear clothes?? Some waterproof uniforms might have proved useful when attacking a water-logged planet. Humans stopped fighting naked back in the stone age!
Superman is supposed to represent who we want to be. Batman represents who we are.
The show Owl House poked fun at quidditch with their game grudgby. Whoever catches the rusty smidge before time runs out automatically wins. Willow says all magical sports have a rule like that. While Luz, the main character, says that it completely undermines all their efforts throughout the game and it’s a stupid rule.
Sometimes holes need to stay empty and let audience think themselves of what happened.
Batman didn’t kill his enemies, seeing as they kill themselves in the end
Superman doesnt have a "no killing" rule and comic fans didnt like that scene in "Man of Steel" because it misrepresented this...
I love the movie "Signs" but I did notice the thing about the water too. I grew up in the country and I've run through many a corn field as a kid. They are heavy with dew especially in morning and night. The first alien spotting is in a cornfield. They would have been soaked. I thought, "Oh, well. That's why they call it 'science fiction'.
It's a miracle from God when the former priest starts to pray, it's not science
I've always had an annoyance with almost all space traveling societies that have not advanced past the chair to the seat belt making battles or any bump in the cosmic road a real problem.
The X-Men movies are deservingly ridiculed for lacking consistency with time. Magneto was a victim of the Holocaust, so that tends to anchor the time period of when the films take place. We all know the MCU can't change the characters without considering Magnet suddenly having a slower aging process or just having him not featured, which may be like Superman without Lex Luthor. Possible, but controversial.
i'm going to take an issue with two things mentioned in the "no kill" policy. first, setting a building on fire w/o trapping people inside it doesn't kill them unless they are painfully stupid. Second, not saving someone's life isn't killing them. if that were how it was decided then anyone who wasn't a strong swimmer that chose not to risk their own life could be charged with murder. a long with a whole host of other people in other situations.
while i'm fully willing to accept that maybe i'm not remembering the burning of the league of shadows headquarters correctly, you can't convince me he killed raz just because he bailed out of the train and didn't take raz with him. raz put himself in that train. had batman thrown him into a moving train about to crash then yeah i could say he killed him.
The ‘Prime Directive’ is quite selective.
In double jeopardy her husband is a criminal fugitive and a known dangerous scumbag who the system would not care if anyone killed him. And since his wife didn't kill him, lawyers need not be drawn into this mess.
The rule of two theres only ever 1 master and apprentice. The apprentice is always trying to kill his master taking his spot thus opening up another apprentice spot which can be filled by someone pre selected like starkiller. The people on exogal and the inquisitors are part of the sith empire but are not sith themselves. The people on exogal would be the equivalent of a person working as a janitor in the jedi temple. Darth maul was supposed to be just a kind of throw away assassin (basically what general Greivious was) however when Sidious manged to kill his master thus taking the master spot maul was elevated to apprentice rank until his defeat by by obiwan
X-2 boom
I still have problems with the rules on the compass in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, especially from the 2nd movie to the 5th
I saw a film theory a couple weeks ago that said that the aliens in Signs weren’t actually ever aliens, but they were actually demons.
Roanoke Gaming I think talks about that, as well as giving an excellent break down of how the water could work the way it does quite plausibly if they are in fact aliens.
If in DJ her husband faked his death, wouldn’t double jeopardy work if they just found his body?
All time travel movies are ridiculous. With the possible exceptions of Bill and Ted.
Thing with the aliens in Signs is not only the residula H20 in the air or 70% of a planet covered in water; but the sure likelihood of rain, they don't even have suits to protect themselves. Never saw that movie and sure never plan to.
Jeepers those quidditch scenes look like garbage
They looked cool at the time, they dont now
The water weakness was also present in the Alien Nation movies but that was salt water, not fresh and even when they were living in LA which is apparently closer to the ocean than other states, they still developed a rash til their bodies got used to the salt air. This is an example of a water weakness done right. Signs was an example of doing it wrong.
When it comes to aliens I'm willing to give a little bit of a benefit of the doubt since it appears that they are in an engineered species. I would guess different iterations have different gestation
The best, pointlessly dumb aliens appeared in War of the Worlds. Where the Aliens die when exposed to our atmosphere… all that technology and they couldn’t tell that getting out of their ships would be fatal.
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10/10 video just for pronouncing Ras Al Ghul correctly 👏👏👏
I always considered sw rule of 2 either misunderstood or really stupid. Especially when it's been established that the sith at one point in time had a planet. It was always poorly explained.
I totally agree with the xenomorph gestation period's inconsistency. It's consistent between Alien and Aliens. In Alien 3 Ripley does say she is carrying a queen embryo, so you can understand where the argument of a queen taking longer to gestate comes from. But indeed, AVP and AVP Requiem bring the time period down to minutes, which is inclusive of the time the facehugger is attached to the host. And don't get me started on Alien: Covenant. Yuck.
Oh, and my favourite X-Men movie is Logan. And I think you'll be getting a lot of votes for Logan, too.
How does Quidditch "make no sense"? I'd argue that players bringing their own brooms is the bigger issue, but whats wrong with the scoring system?
Plenty of sports have different scoring for different "achievements". American football has options to score 1, 2, 3, and 6 points. Basketball has 1, 2, and 3 point scoring.
With quidditch, you could dumb the the points to 1 point per goal and 15 points for grabbing the snitch.
I actually like that the game doesn't have a timer and instead depends on a player ending the game, its a unique and interesting twist.
The Quidditch rules change from book to movie always baffled be. Seemed completely pointless.
You could have filled the whole list just with Harry Potter.
The films Signs with aliens having issues with water, loved also that they could not open or break through a wooden door😂. So much tech and no tool or weapon to break them.😊
No thumbs? I dont remember that bit.
The Quidditch argument always ignores the fact that point differentials throughout the season play a part in the final rankings.
Based on the usual argument, a lot of sports leagues are stupid. For example, in the World Cup, if there are multiple teams with the same record, the team with the largest goal differential advances. So, if you win, you want to win by as many goals as possible. If you have to lose, you want to lose by as few goals as possible. Yes, it is best to win every game. However, how you lose also has a major impact on advancement. So, yes, catching the snitch to end the game and still lose the game by a few points is better than losing by a large amount because all wins and losses are not weighted equally.
8:24 It prevents a person from being convicted twice for the same event (barring cases where a crime breaks both State and Federal statues; as long as the statutes are different, such as the Federal level charging for Murder, and the State level charging for 'Hate Crime,' then the single event, which from these examples would be killing a minority in a VERY disrespectful way, (crucifying a Jew? Lynching a Black person?), creates two separate crimes), but it's MAIN purpose is to prevent 'jury shopping,' retrying a person who has been found innocent in the hopes of getting a guilty verdict the second time around.
It's insane people automatically cry hate crime and racism just cause of the skin colour of a criminal.
Good thing fog and rain aren’t a thing on Earth otherwise that’s a horror movie for the aliens
If only they had thought of clothes or umbrellas!
Sums up why I don't like any of the media in the video.
My headcanon for the xenomorph thing (doesnt completely fit, but if you squint...)
If that theyre somehow reacting to the environment theyre in, tied in with the host species.
In the first movie, it was the only one in the area, so it grew fast, to lessen the chance to be discovered before it hatches.
Aliens may have started that way, but by the movie, there was a colony to protect the hosts, so no rush. (Dont remember the particulars of the book that detailed the fall of hadleys, its been a sec.)
The queen in 3 never made sense. im not sure if its still canon, but back then, they all started iut as drones, and if there was no queen, one would transform into it.
And if it was the oldest/only it should have sped up.
but batman doesnt kill Two-Face? he just knocks Harvey out and they put him in prison and "cover it up" as him being killed by Batman cuz they dont need him as a Hero right now - iv got no argument for the rest of it haha
Yes he does kill two-Face. Albeit not intentionally. No way to know for aure if he'd survive the fall but it was the only way to save the kid. The part they cover up is that Harvy had gone bananas and started killing people, it would bring his recent court success into question and all the gansters would weasel their way back out of prison.
The whole quidditch Game makes No sense. It's Just two Players chasing the Snitch.
Everything Else only Matters when that Game ends in a Draw.
Quidditch makes more sense if you compare it to something like dressage as opposed to football....Snitch still don't make sense though
The "Don't expose the creature to water" rule is utterly stupid because water is the basis of any complex lifeform. Even protozoons like bacteria need water to function. The Mogwai is clearly a multi-cellular organism with body liquids (based on water) and a metabolism that needs water to work. Everything he eats and the air he breathes contain water. The Wicked Witch being killed with water in The Wizard Of Oz is an exeption because it happened in Dorothy's dream, and dreams don't need to make sense.
How are the rules of Quidditch hard to understand?! It’s pretty simple! There’s nothing weird about it. You get 10 points every time you get the quaffle through a hoop. If you catch the snitch you get 150 points, and win the game! The points go towards the Quidditch cup! So you can have 160 points and lose the game, but your points go towards the quidditch cup at the end of the year. In pro Quidditch it’s the same. Your points will win your team the cup. The rules make perfect sense! 🙄
The aliens in Signs would most likely want to take the risk of invading the Earth for harvesting because resources are scarce in the galaxy. Earth would be a prize for alien species (we would do the same if we could travel the stars).
One was just don't get the grimlins wet
When it comes to Sign, the alien theory is the redirect from a non-secular take at face value, but it's a movie about a man's lost faith and going by the religious angle, the water was blessed by his daughter. Not aliens but demon. I'm not even a religious person but viewing it from that angle changes the movie and doesn't take away from it.
Harry Potter was a shitty story written by a woman who wasn't a writer for her kids as a bed time story, and yet for some reason adults have decided to spend decades obsessing over it, and wonder why it doesn't make sense...
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Leaving somebody to die by their own wvil machinations is not you killing them. You could argue it is still immoral, but not every immoral act is equivalent to killing.
The absolute worst case of misuse of the Prime Directive was Star Trek: Insurrections. Picard allows the B'aku to stay on the planet and fights with Starfleet over it, when the species in question is not only a Warp Capable species, but IT ISN'T EVEN THEIR PLANET IN THE FIRST PLACE. They not only moved there, but they also kicked out half the planet's population, and don't want to leave because the planet makes them immortal, they just want everyone to go away and leave them alone to be immortal and screw everyone else. Said planet is a medical marvel that could save millions of lives in a movie that takes place right in the middle of the devastating Dominion War in which over a billion lives were canonically lost. They literally had to make the S'ona and the Federation guy helping them be moustache-twirlingly evil in order to make us forget what Picard is doing.
Also, you mention Looper having fun with the fact that the rules don't make sense, but don't bring up that they did the same thing in Gremlins 2? They literally have a character making fun of the "after midnight" rule, and have a gremlin burst through his electronic station and punch him in the face in the middle of it. It's hilarious.
I remember that. That was classic. Dont make fun of Gremlins. They have BIG ears, they'll hear you.
About number 1. There is the theory that in Signs the aliens are actually demons. That's why Mel Gibson plays a shepard who lost his faith, they also call the daughter "little angel" and she is who leaves the water everywhere, being water touched by an angel "holy water" and that is why it hurts those "aliens" (demons).
Sometimes you should just enjoy the film as presented; Sometimes you should pick out the logical mistakes.
Some of these have merit, but others are just... give it a rest and enjoy the movie.
The Best X-men movie is X-2
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