Question: Why didn't the guards reveal that Diane was the Crimson Paw or that she aided in the bad guys escaping prison? A good majority were not knocked out when they were thrown in to the prison cells. Surely even if they didn't see her face, the bad guys exclaiming her name in shock as well as removing her mask would have seriously put her identity in jeopardy. (01:00:01 - 01:03:00)
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Episode 11 - S1-E11
Question: The aliens that capture Andor and the other escaped prisoner in the web gun at first are talking about turning them in for money or killing them. They talk about then poisoning the water with the prisons. Hard to understand them, and Andor begs them to be let go. Then suddenly, the two aliens are not only letting Andor and his friend go, but they let them take their ship. We're confused and don't understand why they suddenly helped Andor and let him take the ship.
Answer: I agree that the aliens' motivation is not clear, and this may all be a writer's shortcut to get Andor and Melshi on to the next part of the story. But I believe they are very disgruntled with the Empire, and I suspect they may be pretending to be more hostile than they really are, just to wind Andor and Melshi up. So - with no other evidence - I think they give up their ship because it messes with the Empire, it helps some mistreated prisoners escape, and the aliens have nothing better to do than walk back to their homes.
Question: In the World War 2 segment of this film, a Predator pilot starts having aerial dogfights with a bunch of WW2 fighter planes. There's no subtlety about it at all, and it shoots down several and even chases the main hero through an active battlefield. Is this not very out of character for a Predator to make such a public display like that?
Answer: At best, it's a cool trivia. As a mistake, it's very thin, considering we don't know if it could be documented at all. For all we know, this was a city or area laid to ruins with no survivors, either by bombs or the Predators (as we know, they like to clean up their mess with MOABs). It's all just speculation. But I understand what you are thinking, and personally, I didn't enjoy that scene.
Answer: Yes, the way we are used to seeing the Predators portrayed, this is very much out of character. We are used to seeing them as stalky hunters lurking unseen. However, this scene could have been added as a cool dramatic effect. Or the Predators have other ways of earning their "badges," i.e., aerial battles like this.
Indeed, but would this be considered a mistake as it's very lore-breaking with how a Predator would behave? And considering it's WWII era, and set in the same continuity as the other films, it should have been something documented or mentioned in later stories. Especially Predator 2 when Peter Keyes is talking about their activity he's been tracking. And we know from the newly altered ending to the film that Predator 1 and 2 are both canon in this timeline with Arnie and Danny Glover.
Question: In "Rock Bottom," why did the bus keep leaving Spongebob a million times if he tries to get back to Bikini Bottom? What's with the bus drivers?
Answer: It's a cartoon, and it's funny that every time Spongebob leaves the station, even for a second, that's when the bus arrives. It's comedy, and there's no logic behind it.
Question: If someone broke into her residence and started killing people, wouldn't the first thing the Secret Service do be to drag the president either to a safe room or out of the building? They didn't even enter the room until after her son had been killed.
Answer: That is a very good point, and something I didn't think of when watching it recently. You are right, the Secret Service would have immediately dragged her to a safe location or even to Marine 1 (the helicopter) to get her safe in the air. As we've even seen in recent history when President Trump was shot in the ear, instantly the Secret Service were on him and dragging him off to safety. This would be a logical mistake breaking what the Service usually would do, but then the climax of the movie couldn't happen if they did it. So it is also likely a deliberate mistake. Good catch.
Question: Why did Will and "Emily" get divorced? Is the only hint her comment about "feeling lost when it comes to relationships", implying she wasn't very good at them?
Answer: It's never revealed why they actually got divorced.
Question: Kat goes to an ATM to get out a bunch of cash... I would assume for "extra services" and without going into to much description why did she not get out enough?
Answer: She was drunk and didn't know exactly how much the extra services would cost. That's why he tells her that she's short the next morning.
Hazardous to Your Health - S5-E18
Question: This was one of my favourite episodes, and it wasn't actually until Season 5 when we found out exactly how much money Dylan had. But the question I always had was how it could have been fraud. Dylan and Kevin opened a joint account together at the end of Season 4, so wasn't that also now legally his money as well? Yes, he did withdraw it and fled the country, but wasn't it his money too?
Answer: No one ever said it was fraud. Dylan said he got ripped off, which he did. So yes, it technically was Kevin's money too, but if it was a business account and the funds were used for something other than business, then that is why Kevin would have gotten into trouble.
Question: Peggy Sue had 2 kids. We keep seeing the daughter, Bethany, but we never see Scott through the whole movie. How old was he older than his sister? Was he in the army? She got pregnant when she was 18. So, who was the first child, Bethany or Scott?
Answer: It's never stated how much older Scott is than Beth or where he was.
Question: Why did Judge Palmer collapse after watching the video footage of him in the store with Mark Blackwell? Also, instead of picking up the phone, couldn't the deputies have simply called in an ambulance over their radios?
Answer: Stressful situations can bring on a panic attack, where you feel dizzy.
Question: Why would Emma go to the show's premiere at the Inn if she was sure it was going to humiliate the General? (And why would the General keep her on knowing she routinely reads guest mail and listens in on private phone calls?)
Answer: Emma was told off camera what was going to happen and that they weren't going to humiliate the general. And it's never stated that the general knew she listened to phone calls or read mail.
Question: Detective Loki, at several points in the movie, is shown blinking really hard a couple of times. Is this a nervous tick of sorts?
Answer: Yes, it was part of Jake Gyllenhaal's contributions to the character to express his bottled-up emotions and inner conflict.
Question: Why did John put - or let his apprentices put - Bobby's wife in such a cruel and horrible death trap while she was 100% innocent and wasn't involved in the slightest in her husband's hoaxes (apart from being too naive and possibly blinded by love to see through his lies)? It's totally off-character to me. As far as I can remember, John never placed absolutely innocent people in the harmful end of his traps. So why?
Answer: John has consistently put innocent characters in his traps throughout all of the movies. In the original film, he put Gordon's wife and daughter in danger and told Zepp to kill them if Gordon failed his test. In "Saw II," Daniel - a minor - was placed in a trap (sure he broke a few laws, but he was a child). In "Saw III," Jeff's daughter was captured. In "Saw VI," many of William's innocent co-workers were killed, including a janitor. Etc. Jigsaw may have a certain flimsy moral code, but it's important to remember he's also a psychopath and a hypocrite and breaks his own rules constantly.
Question: What hit the ship as the men were eating below deck?
Answer: A whale.
Question: Happy goes broke after Virginia dies because she, unknown to him, handled all of the family's finances. Wouldn't they have had one or more attorneys who would be aware of this situation and would have then stepped in to address the void in their accounting responsibilities?
Answer: Absolutely nothing in the film indicates it was "unknown to him." The voiceover simply says she "handled the finances" and he wasn't good at it without her around. But to answer your question, yes, more than likely an attorney would help in real life. But you also have to account that this isn't a realistic movie. It's a cartoonish comedy. Plus, Happy is very impulsive in both films. So he ends up penniless after a series of bad financial decisions... plus getting sued. (Although to be fair, it's also not unheard of in real life. Plenty of people with tons of money end up poor after bad financial decisions.)
Question: In the first few episodes, the Walshes live in a different house than the one they live in throughout the series. Nothing was ever even mentioned, I don't think. Was it a mistake, or did I miss the explanation?
Answer: There was no explanation. Usually, when a show doesn't know if it's going to be picked up or not, they will use stock footage until they can spend the money on a real location.
Answer: Before she took off the mask, she started to fight the police officers. They were probably too dizzy to even reconsider the fact that Diane took off her mask, and the fact that the Bad Guys blurted out her name really loudly.