Question: What was attached to the end of the arrows the Lost Boys were shooting at Peter?
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Answer: The only thing I could see at the end of the arrows was the typical nock, which holds the arrow in place against the bowstring before shooting. There are also the fletching feathers near the end that stabilise the arrow as it flies through the air. The arrow tips have a bulbous colored goo that sticks to its target.
Question: Would Gordon actually be allowed to defend Alex? Considering that Alex is Gordon's daughter, wouldn't that be considered a conflict of interest?
Question: Excluding Maurice LaMarche, why were the voice actors for Ray, Winston, Peter, and Janine replaced in later seasons?
Question: Why did King Richard want Lord Graveney to leave his lands to the Crown?
Answer: So that he (Richard), as king, would own them and profit from them.
Question: After the Sense of Self was formed, it cuts to Riley in a championship match. Disgust says, "How are we gonna score in time?" and Fear and Anger offer ideas. And then Sadness said, "But Grace hasn't scored yet." What does she mean by that? (00:05:30)
Chosen answer: Grace is one of Riley's friends who is on the same team as her. The two teams are tied, and the emotions think of ways for Riley to score in time, but since Grace had not made a score yet, Sadness wants to give her a chance to score instead of Riley. Riley then lets Grace score, and their team wins.
Question: The pen where we see them feeding the cow to the raptors—do all three of them live in there all the time, or is it just when they're being fed? It seems like an extremely small pen for three raptors to live in. Plus, how would visitors see the raptors when they're boxed in that way?
Answer: It's not shown if all three raptors are always in that particular pen, so any answer is speculation. Being that it is rather small, they may have been fed separately there to prevent fighting over food. Also, the park was not yet open to the public, and the raptors appear to be in a holding pen that is off exhibit. That may be the standard feeding procedure, as a live cow being devoured in public view would be too gruesome. They may also have been moved there so Grant and the group would have a better view.
Answer: It was all three. The game warden said the female took charge of the pride, killed all the others, leaving only two left.
Question: If a part of Voldemort's soul was inside the diary, then how could he possibly know about the deaths of James and Lily and the circumstances of his defeat?
Question: How long do the men spend at sea, roughly?
Question: People look around the abandoned hotel. TONI: Where is Danny? VIC: We need keys to some of these places. TONI: Check the front desk. VIC: Only if Wednesday Addams is on a break. What does the last Vic's line mean? Who is Wednesday Addams? What does on a break mean? (00:57:15)
Chosen answer: Wednesday Addams was a character on a popular TV show called "The Addams Family" about a creepy family, and Wednesday, the daughter in particular, is a sociopath and psychopath who enjoys maiming and injuring people. Vic's last line is a joke about Wednesday being on a break and therefore it's safer than if she was there and possibly lying in wait to attack them. I hope that makes sense as that was more difficult to explain than I thought it would be.
Question: Would that guy die by the balcony collapsing at an angle like it did? That guy was in the corner, and there was enough space for Jake to crawl under a second or two later.
Question: Could Constantine have confessed his sin of suicide and repented, thereby removing that issue for him?
Answer: Yes, he could have confessed his sins and asked for forgiveness. But Constantine is too stubborn to confess and doesn't feel the need to ask for forgiveness; he feels his service in the name of God should be enough. But that's buying your way into heaven.
Answer: No. He died without confession; what he does afterward doesn't matter. It's like being caught driving without insurance, then retrospectively buying a policy hoping to "get off." It doesn't work that way.
Question: Voldemort's body was destroyed when he attempted to kill baby Harry. At the beginning of this movie, how does he have a small, frail body?
Answer: Going along with what Lionhead wrote: If I remember correctly from the books, after Voldemort was stopped by baby Harry, his spirit was still able to possess animals. Many of them couldn't survive being possessed for long, so he would move between animals. Wormtail found him in a forest before the events of "Goblet of Fire."
Answer: Adding to the other answers, after baby Harry destroyed Voldemort's body, his remaining soul shard fled to Albania. Voldemort possessed small animals and eventually attached himself to Professor Quirrell's head. After Quirrell's death, Voldemort, a disembodied spectral, again hid in the Albanian forest. Eventually, Pettigrew, in his Animagus rat form, discovered Voldemort's whereabouts from other rats. Pettigrew helped revive Voldemort, using dark magic and a potion to regain a weak, baby-like form. Voldemort was probably still possessing a small mammal, allowing him to drink the potion and transform.
Answer: It is described Voldemort had taken a dark potion that gave him a rudimentary body. The potion was made by Wormtail and was a blend of unicorn blood, Nagini's venom, and several dark spells invented by Voldemort. He had to drink from this potion every few hours to maintain his body or return back to spirit form. It is not made clear how Voldemort managed to drink the potion for the first time whilst still in spirit form though.
But how would drinking a potion be possible if he were only a spirit?
Question: In Venom, Dora Skirth explains to Carlton Drake that a host can only survive symbiosis if they're a match for the symbiote. If they're not, they die. How is it in this movie and "Venom: The Last Dance" that every person or animal that Venom inhabits is able to survive? They can't all be a match.
Answer: Presumably everyone is a match, no matter how implausible that seems. The more likely scenario: this plot element was dropped for the sequels because it limits story possibilities and was never explained. It was already somewhat absurd that Eddie, his ex-girlfriend and the owner of his favourite convenience store are all matches for Venom.
Question: Every Sith apprentice is supposed to eventually kill their master and become the new master, if I'm correct. Isn't this quite risky to the survival of the Sith Order? What if an apprentice defeats their master and decides not to continue?
Answer: They are not "supposed to" do that. In the Sith religion, there are no more than 2 Sith, a master and apprentice. Also, in the Sith religion is the embrace of greed, hatred, and selfishness. This basically encourages every apprentice to eventually kill their master, both convinced that they are more powerful than their master and no longer required, as well as wanting to become a master themselves and take on an apprentice, as part of their religious beliefs. It is a risky way to exist indeed, but that's what the Sith are all about, and it's better than before when there were a lot of them and they had devastating wars amongst themselves that indeed did almost manage to wipe them all out several times. Ironically, this system is better to maintain balance.
Question: Hartman compliments Pyle after his round of shooting at the range. How could Hartman possibly know how accurate Pyle was from that distance? There's no way he could see if Pyle had hit the target.
Answer: Hartman compliments Pyle based on what he *thinks* happened based on what he saw; this is the same with almost all shooting ranges. When drill sergeants are watching you at the range, they aren't just looking to see if they can see you hit a target; they are looking at your movements. How was your stance? How was your trigger control? How were you holding the weapon? How steady was your aim? Usually, if you're good at things like the aforementioned, they just assume it all worked together in harmony and you hit the target.
Answer: He wouldn't be able to, no. I think this comes under the class of "deliberate mistake", i.e. an inaccuracy that was a choice by Kubrick to advance the plot quickly (establishing Pyle's marksmanship/rifle skills) without an extended sequence showing all of the steps taken to verify how well he'd done.
Question: Can anyone translate what Mama and Jake are saying in Italian just after the Goonies enter the restaurant?
Answer: Jake wants to know who the boys are, and Ma says they're customers. Jake replies the place isn't a restaurant, with Ma telling him to shut up and that he doesn't understand anything. Jake finally understands, and after telling the boys to make themselves comfortable, he looks at Ma and tells her to throw them out.
Answer: It appeared to be a cork-like tip covered in coloured adhesive.