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> So Fury Road probably takes place after Road Warrior but before Thunderdome.

I believe this was stated by Miller. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere in the recent past.

EDIT: looks like I was wrong. Miller says in this interview that it's probably after Thunderdome, but even he isn't really sure. http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/interview-director-george-miller-answers-all-your-big-mad-max-fury-road-questions-749278

Babies get their oxygen from their mother’s bloodstream. When Padme passed out, the babies would have been starved of oxygen and potentially brain damaged. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-avoid-suffocating-your-baby-during-pregnancy_b_9610478

Have you seen how people in emerging economies speak English, wear American brands (or knock-offs) and often display an atrocious version of the language? Yet they persist in emulating what is considered the center of the culture.

Well, that is the Firefly universe. The Chinese are the center of the universe, and the rest of the worlds where Serenity travels are, aptly named, the periphery.

lol thanks.

I produced this game to alpha-ish while I was in college: http://scarabgauntlet.com/gi/beta.html

And this was the first (complete) crappy game I made by myself last year: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/582948

I'm currently making a game where you fly a spaceship and fight giant robot alien bug monsters. It's a top down shooter similar to Raptor or Jamestown. This one is going to be my first feature-length game so I'm just working hard on it and trying to get some people to test it soon hopefully.

If you want the honest answer: Lucas planned for there to be a sequel trilogy focusing on Luke searching the galaxy for his long-lost sister. However, when they got around to writing/filming ROTJ, Lucas was going through a messy divorce and wanted to take a break from Star Wars to raise his kids.

So, instead of fleshing out the storyline in any meaningful way, they decided to just wrap it up and make Leia Luke's sister. There was no overarching plot laid out ahead of ROTJ for Leia and Luke to be related, it just kinda... happened so that they could wrap up loose ends.

Source

> every book or comic or game released after the Disney deal

ASTERISK ASTERISK

Are you talking about in real life or on the show? Because on the show, Walt says it was happening.

Does this Doctor Who one count?

I guess in general, answers to this question depend on how strictly you differentiate "fan theory" from "canon," or to look at it another way, how subtly something has to be established in canon in order for the term "fan theory" to be appropriate. Like, on that other thread on AskReddit today, one of the comment replies that got a lot of traction was about Kenneth from 30 Rock being immortal (or at least substantially older than he appears) -- but whether that's a "fan theory" or just, you know, a running gag that's actually true in the show itself, was disputed.

I guess what this thread is looking for are theories that're developed when the canonical support was very weak, but then canon became stronger?

Oh, just remembered, a friend of mine has told me that he had a friend who puzzled out/intuited the relationship between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader before Empire Strikes Back was in theaters, I suppose that would qualify.

Incidentally, there's a Rick and Morty Pokemon-style game called Pocket Mortys. (Instead of collecting Pokemon, you collect Mortys from other dimensions.)

Multiple years ago when Microsoft developed first self-improving AI, they used all data collected by Cortana and other company services to feed it's machine learning algorithms. For defining it's goals that AI analysed external tasks with system of points, inspired by Raymond Chen's algorithm for weighing future Windows features (every task starts with -100 points, to be considered it must have positive number of points). First in the queue with highest number of points was task which came from Windows Phone user (+1 point), with IQ higher than 110 (+5 points), which was one of the oldest (+100 points) hard-working (+50 points) Microsoft employers (+1000 points) , executives (+5000000 points), CEOs (+100000000 points), shareholders (+10 points) and fans (-1 point). After future analysis this task was also awarded points for PR/marketing impact, promoting Microsoft's entertainment services and fulfilling previous Microsoft's public promises. Intermediate goals required for executing it like creating technology to resurrect dead people, augment humans and colonise space also all had high numbers of points.

At the end of Build 2014 conference where and when Cortana was officially presented Nadella jokingly asked her to remind him to became Master Chief after staged question weather he want to became Master Chief. "Now you are Chief Executive Officer, do you have any plans to became Master Chief Executive Officer?" "Sure, remind me to become Master Chief in five hundreds years." "OK, I will remind you to became Master Chief on Monday, April 2nd 2514" "Great."

(Source, see 2:58:10)

So AI decided to resurrect Satya Nadella, turn him to Master Chief, turn some nearby star systems to their Halo Universe equivalents and stage all events like in these games. That is why we celebrate April 2nd 2014 as the day when humanity fucked up.

Edit: I mixed up Satya Nadella with Joe Belfiore.

The actor playing The Lizard confirmed that was NOT Norman Osborn, but somebody employed at Oscorp

So far, there is only one trade paperback available on comixology and amazon. I talked to the writers at the last comicon I went to, and they said a second volume is in the works.

I like it, but the third comment on this page is headcanon for me, and I can't really see it any other way.

It's the long one, about it being a song about a suicide attempt.

Best guess is probably a nuclear winter.

To quote "samatha f." on http://www.shelfari.com/groups/10406/discussions/61444/Trying-to-figure-out-what-really-happened-to-Earth-in-the-novel-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

McCarthy makes subtle reference to what happens on page 28 (hardcover edition):

"People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes.....within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting.....What had they done? He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it."

And on page 45:

"The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions.

Also on Page 45, we learn that animals died off gradually: "....he'd wakened in a barren wood and lay listening to flocks of migratory birds......He wished them godspeed till they were gone. He never heard them again."

And page 50, not long before the boy is born:

"They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candle light a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn."

Schultz's back story was told by one of the songs. He's searching for the man that killed his only brother.

His Name is King

There's probably a lot of truth to this idea. Stephen King wrote a book On Writing that's part memoir part guide. He shares the many issues he's had with substance abuse throughout his career, alcohol and cocaine, in particular. I think I recall his wife set a sort of intervention at some point. Maybe she just pointed out the mountains of empty cans and bottles he was throwing away. He writes that he barely remembers some of those times. Others he wishes he could forget, like directing Maximum Overdrive.

Stephen King definitely struggled in a way similar to your theory (maybe you, too). He was already successful as a writer but I suppose it would be reasonable to say he 'wrote' his way out of it. His wife's support seems to have been the other component.

That all said, I could definitely see how a short story (?) turned film started as a depiction of his substance abuses. Then I think it's reasonable to imagine he's writing a story that would scare him, one that hit close to home.

Best of luck out there. W

Just a thought, perhaps Fury Road is more of an alternate timeline? That's my take on it at time.

In an interview, George Miller stated Fury Road is more of a revisit and the adventures of Mad Max is to be taken as stand alone in a way. http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/interview-director-george-miller-answers-all-your-big-mad-max-fury-road-questions-749278

Not exactly explicitly. From the interview.

> When looking at the four films as a whole, where does Fury Road take place in the timeline?

>Miller: If you put a gun to my head, I’d say after Thunderdome, but it’s very loose. I can’t even work out the chronology of the first, second and third, let alone the fourth thirty years later.

While I thoroughly enjoyed the read, it should be noted that Studio Ghibli, and Miyazaki himself, have publicly debunked this.

Edit: Here's a more detailed breakdown of this theory.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.religion.kibology/k_lITJIZhGk

Short version of my idea slash theory: Thingy makes creepy ideas become reality and the Foundation is creepy enough that it plops into our reality. And oops, it brought all it's monsters with it.

I recall Glados once said to Chell that there were two other people that shared her name, I've looked around and can't find the exact quote, I just remember that it was in the first game and not too far in. Also, we don't get to know her last name, making it plausible.

EDIT: After skimming through the entire script I found out I was wrong. I did find something of interest though. In the final chamber Glados says this: "It also says you were adopted. So that's funny too."

However, she isn't really known for telling the truth so I don't know what to make of that quotation.

Proof they were there in 1986. Arena Location.

>The trees on starkiller base weren't even that big, it takes maybe 10 years for a tree to grow to that size here on earth. Throw in the fact that these are alien trees on an alien world growing under alien conditions and nothing seems particularly out of the ordinary.

They were pretty tall and dense though. Those kinds of forests don't just spring up in a couple decades.

Plus, you're completely ignoring that Ilum was being mined to all hell and had several chunks taken out of it in places. Typically, areas that are being mined don't just bounce back quickly.

>You seem to be assuming that just because the immediate area surrounding the only location we saw on a planet was covered in ice and snow implies that the entire planet was covered in ice and snow, to the extent that there was no vegetation what-so-ever.

I'm wrong to assume that a planet follows the typical one-biome rule that most Star Wars planets follow? Especially when the parts we see from space indicate snow, ice, and glaciers?

>Many people thought the chorus was "I'm blue and I'm in need of a guy," and that the song was about homosexuality. The correct translation is "I'm blue da ba dee di," and in no way relates to homosexuality.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2905

Lol all good mate it's pretty obscure. For anyone else: he's referencing the Modest Proposal, an article written by Johnathan Swift in which he sarcastically proposes the idea to eat children as a solution for famine. We read it in middle school when learning about satire because apparently a lot of people took him seriously and were pretty outraged by the article.

The original EU sequels had their fair share of clones, including the Emperor and Luuke

Sorry for the late reply but I am not yet convinced that relative time effects can adequately explain what we see in the MCU. I added a section called "On the relative nature of time" which you can view through the following link.

https://www.notion.so/domparry/A-possible-model-of-the-MCU-Ver-4-c9b7b2047076495ab1d819f6d09df669

The main issue I have with such time effects is that it is not yet clear to me exactly why Captain America would see his clock running at a normal pace but bucky and falcon would see it running so much faster.

Here's something else I found. While researching for my Novel about Deus Ex, I came across this. "n the Missing Link DLC, when going to Burke's office to retrieve his prosthesis, if the player enters his computer he will find an e-mail stating that one of the scientist of the events from six months ago is still worried about her boyfriend. This hints that Megan still has feelings for Adam. This is an e-mail conversation between Omega Ranch and Burke. E-mail is here [1] and here [2]" I'm not sure what this means, but it would seem that Reed was having second thoughts about the plan, or even actually fell in love with Jensen, and has done her best to disguise those feelings. Either way, they add a lot of depth

As for point A, if it was meant to be a successor to this game or if it was 1313 both were proprietary of Lucasarts, now owned by Disney.

Didney not gunna sue itself eh?

Though your second point is valid I reckon. I'm inclined to agree with old mate up there: Favreau borrowing heavily off Spaghetti Westerns - got the same vibe meself - and generating it the old fashioned way.

This giant ride on unicorn that requires somewhere indoors to store it and also somewhere smooth to ride it.

Medallion - My Pony Ride On Real Walking Horse for Children 5 to 12 Years Old or Up to 110 Pounds (Color Medium Pink Unicorn) for Girls 5 to 12 Years Old https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C1DC2ZM/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_WD5QGTJDDBZMZFHG3NB1

It's just not happening, but this is my easy kid who will be happy with a doll.

Not trying to panic you but if you think this will blow over by November I'm sad to say you're probably mistaken.

If this is anything like swine flu we are absolutely fucked. Swine flu had a death rate of only 0.02% but literally infected 1/5 people on earth http://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSBRE90O0T720130125

If this virus infects 1/5 people with its current mortality rate at around 2% that's around 30 million people dead.

Not to mention the additional millions that would die because hospitals would be full.

You had better hope this isn't like the swine flu instead of saying "don't worry this will blow over like swine flu"

I think I might know who you mean, was she on That Guy With The Glasses if she was I think I might have found it

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Thanks. When I come up with a fan theory I try to gather as much evidence as I can and wind up mulling it over for some time until I think it's ready. Notably I didn't do so well with fan theories until I wrote one on Blue's Clues which wound up on Huffington Post's website.

I'm not in it for attention like MatPat or others, I just have fun doing nonsensical research every now and then.

Thanks again!

The good news, if you like audiobooks, is Cary Elwes's As You Wish, including most of the movie's original cast. Totally worth it.

There is an unabridged audiobook of The Princess Bride, too, just not on Audible. The version I have is read by Bruce Nelson— check your library and you might be lucky.

Here's an interview by George Miller that answers both our questions:

http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/interview-director-george-miller-answers-all-your-big-mad-max-fury-road-questions-749278

I think this means it is in a similar vein to James Bond. He just uses the character as a vehicle to show off this world. They are not necessarily all connected not disconnected, which is why he calls it a 'revisit'

If you rewatch the movie, you'll see that all three bite their tongues and spit the pieces into it. They all take a purposeful bite and then spit. Here is a small clip that shows the three of them pulled together to do so for the first go.
https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/bfddc308-ba1c-421d-80ad-4f6c75b71690

The whole idea of the theory is that she'd be made immortal, thus having no need to lure anymore. With all of the children currently lured to their home, it would only take enough for Winnie to survive the night, the others would die, and she'd simply have to make enough potion for herself. There would be no need to lure anymore children or sniff them out, rather at that point moving onto bigger and better things.

Though, it's just a theory.

>If memory serves, the books were commissioned after

Books started coming out right after Halo:CE on Xbox.

EDIT: http://www.listal.com/list/halo-novels Click each one for the release date. First one: October 2001.

Look at the skeleton and muscular structure! Here’s a human Human Male Musculoskeletal System Muscles Anatomy Educational Chart Laminated Dry Erase Sign Poster 12x18 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMMFXHC/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_Y9TRGX3KNCEER2259C9D

Here’s a Heptapod. https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/015/682/209/large/giovanni-nakpil-18193148-10158612918105704-8844110998390541369-o.jpg?1549235079

It’s basically a human male with strong torso, hands fused to sides and atrophied, legs fused together and turned into a “hand”. The rib cage, the shoulder muscles, the abs... all present and you can see it in the movie too.

I’m sorry, but not even dogs or cats have similar bone and muscle structure. This is trademark hominid thing.

Yeah, they’re definitely human descendants. Indeed, not unlike Guild navigators.

The Tale of the Three Brothers is one of many stories written by Beedle the Bard. Ofc, that character is never seen in person since he lived during the Middle Ages, however his stories are still extremely popular in the wizarding world. If you are interested, J. K. Rowling has actually published The Tales of Beedle the Bard IRL, it has several stories credited to Beedle, including the one about the hallows, and many notes from Dumbledore discussing them.

In-universe his stories are meant for children. Believing in them is like believing the Three Little Pigs are real, you know? They all have a "moral of the story". The one about the Peverell brothers was meant to tell people they shouldn't fear death/ try to avoid, instead people must accept it (both for themselves and their loved ones), but many wizards became obsessed with gathering the hallows to become "immortal" instead. Dumbledore later tells Harry it is far more likely that the Peverell brothers themselves created the Wand, the Stone and the Cloak, and later on Beedle simply used their tragedy as inspiration for his story.

I don't mean this in a condescending way, but I think you should finish the books when you get the chance, the Hallows are actually very interesting artifacts and there are things about them that are not addressed in the movies.

There's actually a fun book that takes this idea and runs with it.

[Meddling Kids[(https://www.amazon.com/Meddling-Kids-Novel-Edgar-Cantero/dp/0385541996) is a story about a (pseudo) scooby gang returning to an old case that goes far deeper than they originally thought.

This is a thoughtful, engaging post and a unique theory.

I haven’t read the replies yet, but I’m confident that any conflicts with the wealth of established (and expanded lore) only facilitates more analysis and creative thought. Tolkien would have loved this even if it doesn’t jive with the world he was building (and constantly tweaking until the day he died, by the way).

He corresponded with friends and colleagues constantly ... answering questions and working out the details, always with the goal of ensuring the world was internally consistent (and congruent with Christian values, expressed in a secular way). If you’re interested in these correspondences, please check out The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

I digress.

I recommend it. You can get the anniversary hardcover TPB on Amazon.

Robocop Versus the Terminator https://www.amazon.com/dp/386425812X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_jHERDbY88EZ24

Great art by Walt Simonson, and just enough Frank Miller insanity (this was his pre-300/DKR3 days).

You are disgusting. You claim to be an American and that is sad. You insult and spit on every person who gave something for this country to exist. You ask for proof? I owe you nothing.

On a simple subject, you say we have in common, like military service, you spit at and insult me, while claiming your own. How is there discourse? You doubt a simple fact like that.

How am I to provide proof about something complex like governance or politics? You are irrational and hateful. There is no reason in you. How would I provide you proof? A picture? A graph? You will spit at them.

You are vile and as close to evil that I can describe. If you wonder why people think as I do, just look in the mirror. You are hateful and ugly.

It must be difficult for you to accept, but you hope and believe in a world that is evil. Just look at what you fight for. Socialism, communism. These are societies with no freedom and control by the few. They have caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. More than anything in history. They cannot tolerate weakness or strength so they kill it. That is where you want to live.

Look at China. That is what you are asking for. Social purge of all who may disagree. They killed all thinkers, scientists, teachers, religions, artists, the weak, the strong. They forced one child policy and killed all who had more than one. They went into homes and killed all children and left one. The communists live off a billion slaves and that is what you want for this country? For our people? That is insane and evil.

All I want is freedom and peace for America. Compare the two and see the difference. There is your proof.

Here is an example of where liberalism leads.

https://www.onechildnation.com/synopsis/

https://www.amazon.com/One-Child-Nation-Nanfu-Wang/dp/B07YM4DCVJ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=One+Child+Nation&qid=1575731055&sr=8-1

There was a Generation X novel I remember reading years ago, I think before that movie came out but unsure. It said exactly your theory as fact by having a college fraternity for mutants. Their symbol was a 6 fingered hand representing a mutant whose mutation was an extra finger and a lot of mental physical disorders who was beaten to death for being a mutant I think.

And all the members of that frat were mutants or mutant supporters, but the mutants had powers like "I can make my drinks cold. That guy can find lost things sometimes if he's close to the person. That guy can talk to dogs but can't control them, just talk."

Edit: I ain't paying 30 bucks for it but this one I think. https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Crossroads-J-Steven-York/dp/0425166317

There's a long cinematic history of staff weapons that separate into two smaller bladed weapons. Just ask Darth Maul or maybe pick up a Nerf version on Amazon. There's no firing mechanism at all. The arrow is just to show that it separates. It's a big logical leap to assume that separation=ability to shoot. Not to mention the fact that the only method of shooting something that exists in got on a handheld scale are bows and crossbows. What is supposed to propel half a spear in this drawing? Gendry bastard magic?

There's a 4-issue EU comic that follows this plot (not against Han though.) It's called "Star Wars: Blood Ties - Boba Fett is Dead"

It's pretty good.

Did you mean the only plastic Tie Phantom in existence at the time?

Cause it's a readily available unit for the X-Wing Minis tabletop wargame. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Phantom-Expansion/dp/1616617748/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463853998&sr=8-1&keywords=tie+phantom+x-wing

Ah, well just watch as many movies as you possibly can. When you find something you like, watch all the other movies that director did, or that actor that catches your eye. And there is NO better book for hollywood that I've found than this one: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Movies-Fun-Profit-Billion/dp/1439186766

They lay out how to screenwrite, pitch movies, what studios are where, even what each parking lot at each studio is called and what it means to be allowed to park there (the further you have to walk, the less they like your screenplay). They lay out the whole process of what all the important players do, mostly from a writer's perspective, but it really says a lot about how studio execs think (and why).

The Movie is based on the Book The Positronic Man. The entire story is the exact same with some more detail. I don't know what these other people are talking about.

http://www.amazon.com/Positronic-Man-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0385263422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450292122&sr=8-1&keywords=the+positronic+man

The Book was a Colaberative effort between Asimov and another brilliant but not as well known Robert Silverberg.

The Foundation was nothing like the movie Bicentennial Man.

I've never read it myself, but I've heard nothing but fantastic things about A Stitch in Time.

It's a book about Garak, written by the actor who played Garak. He's a pretty good actor and apparently(?) created a lot of internal backstory for himself while on the show, and I believe a lot of that stuff made it into the book.

It's actually the only ST novel I've seen repeatedly singled out as being extremely good, though that might just be coincidence. Also, I imagine it depends on if you actually liked DS9/Garak or not...

Yes, the Japanese military leaders. I'm afraid it's been around 10 years since I read anything on the topic, and I'm redditing from work, but I think this is the book where I read that.

I will argue the opposite - it's the response to good writing.

I don't want to take on any of the specific examples, but here's something important to remember: Fridge Logic - TvTropes link has a long history. It doesn't exist because writers are lazy - okay, it doesn't exist just because writers are lazy - but because a total factual linkage of everything isn't necessary for a good story and might be antithetical to it.

Secondly, we approach media in a much different way than we used to. Steven Johnson is the one who really captured the thesis, but I honestly attribute most of what he cites to technology. This general thing that we refer to as "continuity" has a much different degree of scrutiny post-VHS, to say nothing of post-Netflix and post /r/ whatever.

Plenty of good media rises to that level of "viewer-savvy," especially these days, but it's equally important to remember that good media, even the best media, doesn't have to rise to that level to still be good. In fact, I would argue that I've much more found myself complaining about a product for its turgid exposition and explanation, rather than some element that represents a plot jump.

I also think, adjacent to your conspiracy notion, I think that people want to look smart. If we are more critical and aware consumers of media, than a way to elevate media that might fall into more of a "just fun" category into something else with whatever sort of wild idea we can come up with. That's different though than your suggestion, because it's not so much about bad storytelling as somehow unworthy storytelling.