Question: Considering that Burkhalter hates Klink, why is he so insistent that Klink marry his sister, Gertrude? Why doesn't Burkhalter just find someone else to marry her?
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Question: Why did they have to use a bomb to blow out the door to slow the Hermes for the rendezvous with Watney? Wouldn't simply opening the door have the same effect?
Answer: Airlocks have two doors - open door 1, get in, close door 1, change atmosphere inside airlock, open door 2, get out. It's a built-in safety feature that only one door at a time can be open. As they couldn't overcome it, they had to blow out one of the doors while the other was open.
Answer: From Internet sources: The crew blew the airlock hatch to change course and rendezvous with Mark Watney after he launched himself from Mars. This was done to overcome a critical situation where the crew lacked sufficient fuel to travel to Watney and the be able to return home. The blasting air venting into space would propel the ship forward while saving fuel.
From my take of the movie, they blew the hatch to slow the Hermes to more closely match Watney's speed, not propel it forward.
Yes, they blew the front airlock, so the thrust would be aimed against their travelling direction. It may be confusing if you are not used to the idea of 'braking' with counter-thrust.
Question: When talking with Hershey, Snake mentions bluebacks. What did he mean by that?
Answer: From online sources: Bluebacks are a form of currency used in the dystopian Los Angeles. They are specifically mentioned as the currency used to pay Hershe and her gang for their assistance in rescuing Utopia. Snake Plissken agrees to pay $1,000,000 in bluebacks for their help.
Question: Right after the fruit whack one of the customers like a piñata, you hear the grocery items saying something while fighting the humans. What are they saying?
Answer: Get away from me, you freaking fruits.
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Question: What did Edward mean in his note to Jessica that he was right in the first place?
Answer: At the start, Edward told Jessica that he loved the changes she'd made to her new book. Later, as his mental condition declined, he said the book was terrible and he wouldn't publish it until she made improvements. Edward's later note to Jessica was to apologise for saying her novel was bad and that he had been right about it the first time.
Question: At the pub in London, on Marwood returning from the toilet and saying "balls to Monty", Withnail says he's just spent an hour on the phone to Monty "flattering the bugger"? Surely Marwood wasn't in there for an hour and it's unlikely Withnail would have had time to phone Monty in the short while he surely must really have been in there, especially with a threatening guy sitting outside and likely to come in the longer he spent there.
Question: How exactly did Zia become a paleoveterinarian if she had never even seen a dinosaur beforehand? Wouldn't she need some practical experience on a living subject?
Answer: Would add to the other answer that while "paleo-veterinarian" is not a formally recognized degree or specialization in veterinary medicine, it is a field of study and practice that involves applying veterinary knowledge to the study of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs. This includes understanding and theorizing how their anatomy, physiology, and diseases might have been, and applying this knowledge to modern animals. Though Zia apparently had no hands-on experience with living dinosaurs, she would have studied fossils and also birds and reptiles that had some relationship to extinct dinosaurs. She may also have had some access to InGen's scientific research, read their scientific publications, etc.
Answer: I think you could make a compelling argument that paleoveterinarians are probably held to a different standard than normal veterinarians because it's an extremely niche study. Being a paleoveterinarian is wildly specific, and having the chance for practical hands-on experience with dinosaurs would be rare and difficult to the point of being borderline impossible. Dinosaurs are only in a few specific locations, and there have been repeated incidents basically necessitating that people keep away outside of very rare exceptions. But you can't just not have them, so getting licensed is probably based more on study than experience.
Question: How did Tom keep getting out of the bio-bed if he was asleep and locked in?
Answer: The bio-chambers could be opened from the inside and exited if needed. The induced stasis was not intended as a deep sleep or long-term, but only temporary to protect the crew while traveling through hostile space conditions. External circumstances could awaken crew members. Tom was claustrophobic and highly nervous about undergoing stasis. His anxiety may have prevented a deeper sleep. Tom was essentially sleepwalking and had no memory of leaving the bio-chamber.
Question: I'm a bit confused about something. David tried to kill Bruce when he was just a baby out of fear that he would become a monster. After Bruce's first transformation, David is shown as crying about it. Why then, later in the movie, does he now want all of the Hulk's power?
Answer: Perhaps the attempt at murdering the baby drove him insane, and insane people never think rationally. His insatiable lust for power is what drove him to try to gain the Hulk's abilities.
Question: If Tavington and his men had succeeded in finding Martin's family at the plantation, would they have just killed them or taken them hostage?
Answer: A bit of both. Although killing them outright may have given them even more trouble further down the line. As hostages, they could be seen as an extremely powerful bargaining chip.
Question: Why did Jason tell Marie to turn her head away during the car chase in Paris?
Answer: He didn't want to implicate her in his crimes as an accessory. It is unknown at this time if Marie was already known to be involved, either willingly or unwillingly, with Jason. Marie is an innocent bystander whom Jason got involved in his actions. He told her to turn her head away so she was less likely to be identified. IMHO.
Question: Has it ever been explained how the Resistance knew that Skynet was sending a Terminator to go back in time to kill Sarah? If so, how did they know?
Answer: It's a time loop. When Reese was sent back, he told Sarah everything. She told her son, John, everything. He knew the day was coming; that's why he and Reese were close friends and why John gave Reese a picture of Sarah.
Answer: Reece explained it when telling Sarah. The Resistance fought and entered somewhere (can't remember where) and realised Skynet had already sent a Terminator back to 1984.
Question: When William says, "Apart from the American, I've only loved two girls, both total disasters," Max replies, "That's not fair." What did he mean? William is technically right. Does Max think William is generalising?
Answer: He means it's hard to judge from only dating three women. Plus, he meant that American and British women are totally different, so one cannot compare the two.
Question: How is it Sil managed to cut off the woman's thumb since garden shears are not strong enough to cut bones?
Answer: You could probably make a compelling argument that, as an alien-hybrid, Sil is stronger than a normal person and thus was just able to forcibly cut through the finger with the pruners by "crushing" it. Also, this is where good old suspension of disbelief comes in. The pruners might realistically have broken at some point, but it's a movie, so we can "forgive" this bit of unrealism because it creates a compelling scene.
Question: At the end, when Martin and his family go back to their old home, why isn't Abigail with them? She loves them and they are like family to her.
Answer: Abagail, along with the rest of Benjamin's slaves, was taken away by the British earlier in the film. We don't know what happens to her after that, but more than likely, she was sold or given to another slaveholder. Slavery continued after the war, so she would have continued with her new household. We can speculate that maybe, after the end of the film, Benjamin may have tried to track her down and possibly buy her back, but either way, she likely remains a slave.
Question: Why does Susan refuse to speak during most of the movie?
Answer: She is angry, mostly from missing her mum, but also at her dad for being away so long and often.
Question: At the end of the movie, Charles and Carrie decide to spend the rest of their lives together without being married. If Charles loves Carrie so much and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, why doesn't he just marry her?
Answer: I've been with my girlfriend for 25 years, and we are not married. You do not need to marry someone to love them.
Answer: Carrie had just gone through a divorce, and Charles had left a woman at the altar. They were both kind of soured on the idea of marriage.
Answer: I don't recall if it was determined whether or not they eventually married. The end showed them together with their baby and implied that they had married by then.
He specifically asked her not to be his wife.
Question: If Carrie loves Hamish so much, why does she still hang out and sleep with Charles?
Answer: Carrie was immediately attracted to Charles and gave in to her passion; she even said she thought they had a missed opportunity. Most likely, she never truly loved Hamish, was attracted to his status and wealth, and probably believed it would work out. Carrie really didn't know what Hamish was like.
Answer: Burkhalter was eager to marry off his rather "Plain Jane" sister to just about any officer so she would be taken care of and not burden their mother. He didn't like Klink, but knew that Gertrude was somewhat attracted to him, making Klink a suitable and more readily available prospect.
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