Question: Could the reflection of Eamon, dressed as a mummy, appearing in the room actually be accomplished with a mirror?
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Question: What's the story with Chris's accent? It certainly doesn't sound Irish.
Question: When Gondorf produces four Jacks as the winning poker hand, how does he know four Jacks will be good enough to win? The most likely way he can produce the four Jacks is that he has that hand hidden somewhere and can get to it anytime he needs it. Wouldn't it have been smarter to have four Kings or four Aces or a straight flush available?
Answer: He knows (from intelligence gathered by JJ) that Lonnegan's go-to cheat is to stack a deck to give himself (Lonnegan) four nines and his opponent four threes. Therefore, he knows that giving himself four jacks will beat it.
Question: Is time really taken from a racer who eats before his dogs do? If so, how does this affect the racer's time?
Question: Why don't Anne and her parents stay at the Gullah camp with the rest of Martin's family? Yes, Tavington and the British don't know that she has married into his family, but wouldn't staying there be the best bet for their safety?
Answer: Presumably, Mr Howard has a business or plantation to run. As well, it would be suspicious for all of them to disappear like that. It could also leave their house open to looting.
Question: How was young Anastasia never aware of the secret door in her room? You would think her family would have told her about it since secret doors were often built into castles and palaces for the safety of royal families.
Answer: There may have been some concern that young Anastasia might try to leave the palace to go exploring, could carelessly reveal the secret to someone, or sneak someone into her room. There's any number of reasons. She probably would have been told about it when she was older and more trustworthy with information.
Question: It has to be an opium dream because - how can a suitcase remain in a locker in Grand Central or Penn Station for 35 years?
Question: Am I crazy? I remember a missing scene on the train where Danny explains that he hoped they were going to Vermont, so he bought the long underwear. It isn't there in any of the DVD versions I've seen, so Bing says, "Vermont must be beautiful, all that underwear," and it sounds weird. But I have never been able to find that scene! Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?
Answer: There isn't a scene where he says that, but I believe Bing says "all that underwear" because it is abnormally warm in Vermont and not the snowy wonderland they thought it was going to be.
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: What was the episode where everyone but, I believe, Christine was shocked to learn that a prosecutor wasn't really a lawyer? He only pretended to be one. While the others were shocked, Christine looked happy.
Question: Why didn't Yogurt just tell Lone Starr the meaning of his medallion earlier?
Answer: He tells Lone Starr he can only know what it means at the "proper time." Which, of course, ends up being right before the ending, conveniently at just the right moment for him to be able to marry the princess. It's a borderline meta-joke; he finally is told what it means, but only when it's super convenient for the plot. It's kind of poking fun at the idea of tropes and clichés like this, where a last-minute revelation saves the day.
Question: Why exactly did the son want to destroy both the Jedi and Sith when that won't bring balance?
Question: Why was Bagheera not happy that Baloo survived his fight with Shere Khan?
Answer: Shere Khan is proud, and having lost a fight, may come back seeking revenge. And if he finds Mowgli, the tiger may try to kill the boy, as Khan sees all humans as a threat.
Answer: Chris came from a lower-class Irish background. My take is, he was an ambitious social climber and minimised his natural Irish accent for a more gentile one to fit in with the English upper-classes that he was mingling with and eventually married into.
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