u/gerarddominus

So I'm not normally one for giant monster animes or movie but I was told to give this show a try. I've made it up through Episode 2 and will be starting episode 3, but I have a question on an odd story progression event after episode 2.

Why did the Titans stop attacking the city once they got through the first wall or ring or whatever? They're clearly intelligent, and/or being controlled by someone intelligent, given their eyes and that one super fast one who broke down the closing wall, so why do they suddenly stop attacking a short while after making it in and let a long enough gap occur for the kid characters to grow old enough to join the military? Seems odd and inconsistent with the fervor of their original attack.

If this is explained in a later episode you can just say that I just found it weird enough to ask here about.

One of the astral orrery scientists you can talk to mentions that each time you go through a mirror, you lose a day of life. Has anyone tried going through a mirror repeatedly to see if it'll age and kill mina?

ETA: Thanks for the time correction

So his video for Bob, which I love, was something he already did in almost the exact same style during the video for his UHF song, right at the 2:32 mark in the UHF video specifically. I was just curious if this was the first/only instance of him repeating himself like that?

If you dont actually give the butler guy a vial to heal him will he and Lionel just stay there until you do? If they do would that affect Lionel's presence at other points in the game, like when he's on top of the last spark tower? Or could that allow us to access something new in the manor?

If they don't does the butler being damaged affect his later boss fight?

The reveal that Lionel was actually the bad guy the whole time, do you think that was meant to be surprising?

I can't fathom anyone not seeing it coming. He couldn't have been more obvious to me if he were wearing a giant neon sign that said obviously evil around his neck.

I know not everyone has played a lot of games or read a lot of stories or watched a lot of movies but it just...it was so obvious.

I'm curious if anyone was actually surprised by the twist?

Can anyone confirm if Alex's statement, that the first half of the flip flop task, where they have to catch a flung flip flop with just one foot, is actually impossible?

As a general life rule I don't believe in impossible, I believe in improbable and we just don't know how yet, but I lack the resources and manpower to test the validity of his statement.

The only loophole I could think of while watching was that the task said one foot, it didn't say YOUR foot. So maybe getting a mannequinn leg and foot might have been easier.

There is only a very small handfull of areas in the game where Mina can be in darkness and in every single one you'd have to actually stop and stand still inside the darkness to have the bad effects happen as every single darkness patch is small and Mina moves through them quicker than it takes for the bad effects to trigger and/or there's always a moving lightsource to light up that area that comes along quicker than it takes for the bad effects to trigger.

You gain nothing from standing still in the darkness and letting the effects trigger, so I don't understand the point of a trinket to solve a problem that doesn't really exist unless you force it to.

Am I missing some sort of other use for it?

Given From's nature of question and plot point raising, as well as the general nature of fiction in TV shows as it relates to science fiction, mysteries, and storytelling in general, see Lost as a perfect example, I am curious where everyone falls on the spectrum of a story's point being about the journey itself rather than the destination, which seems to invariably leave things unanswered or unresolved in favor of larger character growth and development, again see Lost for a good example, vs when a show does actually make an effort to tie up the loose ends it raises, answer the questions it asks, or just generally try to focus more on some fixed end goal rather than more a nebulous growth experience.

Do you find one more satisfying than the other? Do you feel frustrated or let down when a show will say "it's not about the answer, it's about them learning to be better than they were or how they get to an answer," or "any answer we give wouldn't match your expectations so we leave it to the viewer to decide" rather than "okay here's the payoff for the thing we setup x seasons ago" or paying off every thing that was setup earlier in a show or a season?

I personally tend toward the latter than the former, loose ends and unanswered questions bother me, but I also know sometimes it's dependent on the show and its intent. Not every plot point in Star Trek The Next Generation was resolved because the show isn't serialized and their character growth is the point, so high-ranking Federation officers being body snatched by aliens for an episode shouldn't be your main concern after that episode, to use a know unresolved plot point.

There's a scene in the Pee-Wee Herman movie where he sets up an automatic knocking hand on a door so it just continuously knocks on the door to distract someone.

I am curious is this is a real thing that exists? i've done a few google searches but can't get a close result, and I think it would be useful for a sort of haunted house thing I'm buiding.

We see Kristen enter the bathroom still dreaming, and the taps turn into Freddy's hands and slice her wrist, fine that make sense.

When her mom comes in, waking her up, we see Kristen is actually holding a physical razor blade. What was the actual real world sequence of events there? Did Freddy actually make her sleepwalk into the bathroom, ala Phillip later in the movie, and actually grab a razor blade and cut her own wrists?

How much actual control does Freddy have over a sleeping victim's body? I cannot recall an earlier instance of him actually physically making someone do something as intricate as finding and using a razor blade while dead asleep up to that point in the series.

There have been a bunch of episodes, even the most recent one, where Linda has had to cook the burgers instead of Bob and I was curious if people think hers would end up as good as Bob's.

Clearly, Bob puts a lot of love and care into each one but I wonder if all the meat is maybe pre-spiced for moments like that and its just a matter of cooking time and pressure applied so they are all equally as good or if Linda cooks them slightly differently from Bob. They should have Teddy decide.

She keeps saying we can visit it if I want but she never gives coordinates for it.

I begin to wonder if this is one if those Needful Things stores that's run by the devil and I only think I found exactly what I was looking for.

I've only ever seen the American dubbed toonami episodes, so if this was ever addressed, I'd love to know. He's been drugged and darted so much the man's body must be riddled with tiny holes and all that sedative can't ne good for his body.