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Question: Jake tells Emma there is only one reason he would stay with her. What reason was that?

Answer: Presumably, he means that he loves her.

raywest

Question: Would pouring whiskey into the tank have really thinned down the mix, giving the submarine more speed?

Answer: Adding alcohol to gasoline can lower the fuel's viscosity, thinning it to flow more easily. It can marginally increase an engine's speed and power.

raywest

But the question was, would it have actually increased the sub's speed?

Thinning the fuel mix would not increase energy or performance, so it would not make the submarine faster.

Question: When Gunnery Sergeant Hartman first addresses the recruits, why does Joker start making jokes? Does he think Hartman is trying to be funny? Doesn't Joker realise that Hartman is serious?

Answer: Joker, a fresh recruit, is being a somewhat rebellious smart-ass and not taking things very seriously. He certainly does not think Hartman is trying to be funny but is mocking him for acting like an over-the-top John Wayne movie character.

raywest

Question: At the beginning of the movie, how did the guy who sat in Christine die?

Answer: It is not shown, but it is possible he was crushed between the seat and steering wheel the same way Darnell dies.

lionhead

Question: What was attached to the end of the arrows the Lost Boys were shooting at Peter?

Answer: It appeared to be a cork-like tip covered in coloured adhesive.

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.

raywest

Texas vs. Cahill - S5-E25

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: At the end of the movie, was Peter throwing his phone out of the window his way of telling Brad that he quit his job?

Answer: That was my interpretation. It was a symbolic act of saying, "I quit."

raywest

Question: At the start of the movie, when Young Indiana runs into the house to warn his dad about the bandits, why did Henry tell Indiana to count to ten in Greek?

Answer: It was a method to get an excited Indy to calm down before trying to speak. The same as saying, "take a deep breath." Being a scholar, Henry naturally adds an intellectual twist to it.

raywest

Question: Why was this movie not released in the Walt Disney Signature Collection?

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)

Bunch Son

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.

zenee

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?

Jen Hen

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.

raywest

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?

Answer: Ginny Weasley had Riddle's diary for some months. Voldemort was possessing her mind through it and probably quizzed her for information about Harry and what had happened in the outside world. He also was able to read minds.

raywest

Show generally

Question: What was the episode where, I believe, a female Gestapo officer accused Klink of being a spy, leaving both Klink and Hogan, who was standing next to him, shocked?

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)

Bunch Son

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.

The_Iceman

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.

lionhead

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.

raywest

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.

lionhead

But how would drinking a potion be possible if he were only a spirit?

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