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A commonly talked-about plot hole in the movie is that the opening narration says that the rose’s last petal will fall by the Beast’s 21st year, and the lyrics to “Be Our Guest” imply that the curse has lasted for ten years. That would mean that the Beast was at most 11 years old when he was cursed, and yet we see a portrait of the Beast before the curse that shows him in his mid-to-late teens at the youngest.

Some people have argued that maybe the narration didn’t mean the Beast’s 21st year alive, but his 21st year as a beast. But this still contradicts the “ten years” line. The last petal falls at the end of the movie, implying that the “21st year” is up. If the Beast had been cursed for 21 years at this point, that would mean Belle spent 11 years with the Beast, which seems quite unlikely.

Which brings me to my theory, which is that the Beast hasn’t actually been cursed for ten years. The only one who says this is Lumiere. Later in the movie when the Beast confesses his love for Belle after letting her rescue Maurice, Lumiere thinks this will be enough to break the spell, but Mrs. Potts points out that the Beast’s loved one must love him back in order for the spell to be broken. If Lumiere can get such a crucial detail wrong, he’s probably not very good at keeping track of time.

In case you don’t know, it is often brought up that the opening narration says that the rose’s last petal will fall by the Beast’s 21st year, and the lyrics to “Be Our Guest” imply that the curse has lasted for ten years. That would mean that the Beast was at most 11 years old when he was cursed, and yet we see a portrait of the Beast before the curse that shows him in his mid-to-late teens at the youngest.

Some people have argued that maybe the narration didn’t mean the Beast’s 21st year alive, but his 21st year as a beast. But this still contradicts the “ten years” line. The last petal falls at the end of the movie, implying that the “21st year” is up. If the Beast had been cursed for 21 years at this point, that would mean Belle spent 11 years with the Beast, which seems quite unlikely.

My theory is that the Beast hasn’t actually been cursed for ten years. The only one who says this is Lumiere. Later in the movie when the Beast confesses his love for Belle after letting her rescue Maurice, Lumiere thinks this will be enough to break the spell, but Mrs. Potts points out that the Beast’s loved one must love him back in order for the spell to be broken. If Lumiere can get such a crucial detail wrong, he’s probably not very good at keeping track of time.

“We sure do,” replies the assistant. “What size shoes does your alligator wear?”

"This is the brewery," says the voice on the other line. "Your husband's dead."

"What happened?" asks the woman.

"This morning, shortly after arriving at work, your husband slipped and fell into a vat and died of drowning."

"My husband's been dead for six or seven hours, and you're telling me now?!"

"He hasn't been dead that long. He died only five or ten minutes ago."

"Impossible! People don't take that long to drown!"

"Well, you see, he climbed out of the vat three times to take a leak."

Knowing the brunette can’t swim, the blonde dives into the pool and rescues her from drowning.

After the party, the blonde goes home, feeling proud of herself for saving someone’s life. Just as she arrives home, the phone rings.

The brunette’s husband is on the other line. “I used to think blondes were dumb,” he says, “but I guess I was wrong! Unfortunately, after you rescued my wife, she hanged herself.”

“She didn’t hang herself,” replied the blonde. “I hung her up to dry.”

One had a tale of two cities, and the other has a sale of two titties.

I think I was a teenager when I learned that he was supposed to be a guy who had been hanged by a hangman, rather than a guy named Hangman who liked to hang from things that were stuck to the top of his head.

But seriously, who thought that a game about a guy getting executed would be a good little kids’ game?

If anything, it means we shouldn’t give up. A 1.5-degree world would be preferable to a 2-degree world, which would be preferable to a 2.5 degree world, and so on.

I make post in light of there being only three years left on the Climate Clock. I understand the good intentions behind the Climate Clock, but I think it might do more harm than good.

If the Climate Clock reaches zero, and I’m 99% sure that it will, we will get more climate doomers than ever before. The climate denial crowd will grow as well, because it’s unlikely that anything meaningful will happen on the day that the Clock actually reaches zero, and people will just call this a “failed prediction”.

People are forgetting that even if global warming exceeds the 1.5-degree target, there’s still the 2-degree target, and we should fight even harder to prevent things from getting worse. The last thing the climate movement needs is more deniers and more doomers, because both of these groups insist that climate action is pointless. But if we give up on climate action, the problem will only worsen just like any other problem that isn’t addressed, and the doomerism will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The other pirate says, “ARRRRRE!”

One’s a bunny feast, and the other is a funny beast.