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Everything about the Na'vi seems just a bit off in juxtaposition to their environment. I'm of the mind that they were once a very technologically advanced civilization. However, just as with Earth, they let it go to their heads and they destroyed the planet and wars ravaged the people until a highly advanced ai that they built took over.

Eywa is a rogue ai that triggered nuclear warfare to wipe out the majority of the old world Na'vi while keeping just enough to breed or sourced eggs/sperm to create frozen embryos that would be ready for the new world. After thousands of years of terraforming Pandora back into a hospitable "natural" paradise, she reintroduced the Na'vi.

Why else would eywa (who is essentially a giant mushroom/fungus network) know about permanent structures, wheeled vehicles, and ore forging. Her three laws are too specific and we're not told that she's ever been off planet. Would also help her goals to present herself as a deity before the Na'vi. The new population would have no knowledge of their past history thus accepting this as fact...they have no other frame of reference.

The Na'vi are shown to be highly intelligent. If not for the three laws they'd be way more advanced in the several thousand years they've existed on Pandora. A perfect example is the wind traders–they just barely skirt past the restrictions with their way of life.

Eywa the rogue ai turned god is deliberately keeping the Na'vi just primitive enough to prevent the cycle of destruction from beginning again.

The Three Laws of Eywa:

• You shall not set stone upon stone

• Neither shall you use the turning wheel

• Nor use the metals of the ground

Joker is (in)famous for hating Red Skull for being a nazi despite the fact Joker is a mass murderer himself.

Joker could only exist in the United States of America (kinda like how *Breaking Bad* would only make sense in the US). A more authortarian government like North Korea or Russia would have executed Joker quickly. A liberal welfare state like the Nordic countries would have provided enough mental health services to reform Joker. The US is that sweet spot of judicial mercy (ie not guilty by reason of insanity) and incompetent mental health services (he makes therpist into his sidekick...that's like, the opposite of the goal of therpy!) for someone like Joker to exist and operate for so long.

I know the whole point of David Lynch's films is that they are meant to be vague and out there, but at the same time, this was just a thought that came into my head whilst rewatching some clips:

-The whole world design is sickly: From the grey sky to the tattered and ruined buildings, the world of this film is ramshackle, almost as if some kind of war has happened

-There's a framed photo of a nuclear mushroom cloud in Henry's apartment

-Spike, the baby himself is extremely mutated and deformed, perhaps as a result of a nuclear war?

-Even before becoming a parent, Henry is in a terrible state of mind, never smiling or showing emotion other than fear. Perhaps this a result of some ptsd caused by a war

Thoughts?

I just rewatched Palm Springs. FYI this post contains spoilers.

So in the movie Sarah tests her theory that you can exit the time loop by being in an explosion inside the cave, which resets the day but by having an explosion during that reset it creates an energy burst that propels that looped version of your consciousness out of the time loop box.

Plot point 1 - Sarah gets Nyles to trust her theory enough to explode in the cave with her by telling her that the goat disappeared from Nov 9th via explosion. (And as she’s entering the cave with Nyles, he asks how confident she is about her theory and she gives a bit of an evasive answer.)

Plot point 2 - We later (as a post credits scene) see Roy approach Nyles at the wedding and realize this version of Nyles is not in the time loop, explaining to the audience that even though the looped version of Nyles escaped Nov 9, an unlooped version of Nyles still exists in Roy’s current iteration of Nov 9.

Plot point 1 was done on a non looped being (the goat) and implies that the explosion removes the goat from physically existing the subsequent iterations that the looped main characters are in.

Plot point 2 was done on 2 looped humans and implies that it removed their looped consciousnesses from the loop and propelled them to the next day. And that a version of themselves continued to progress through Nov 9 (linearly from Nov 8 to 9 to 10, not as part of a Nov 9 loop), as displayed by Nyle’s final interaction with Roy.

What theories do you have that explain this seeming contradiction in the rules governing this movie’s world and take on time loops and physics?

The most convincing theory I have seen is… (PLEASE feel free to reply before reading this part as I’d love your unique reaction!)

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So the most internally consistent explanation I have heard is that Sarah lied to Nyles and the goat did not disappear but she still believed her plan would work on their looped consciousnesses, and she wanted Nyles to believe her and come with her, so she made her best convincing argument.

What do others think?

Also interested to hear your thoughts on Nana or any other plot internal consistency questions if you’ve considered anything else!

Mayor Humdinger was a terrible person but just not quite awful enough to merit actual eternal punishment. He’s on a work release program in Adventure Bay to provide engagement to the souls of children taken too soon before they can move on. If one of his zany plans actually manages to end his life he can escape his punishment, but the Paw Patrol are always on their way to save the day.

My children have made me watch every episode against my will and I just can’t help but feel like Mayor Humdinger only makes sense if his overall goal was to die. Rider always seems downright omniscient and mocking in his failure to do so so in my mind he’s the caretaker/jailer.

Edit: Also he literally lives in Silent Hill.

The fact that Pickle lived with the dinosaurs means that in the Bakiverse humans were prey animals that had to adapt fighting dinosaurs.

Meaning they most likely never had time to evolve rational brains and had to adapt to immense evolutionary pressure.

And given that he doesn't say HOW the dinos went extinct it could very well be that Baki Sapiens had to kill the dinosaurs themselves. Hell it is entirely likely the Baki Sapiens didn't have time to really develop tools or rational thought and technology and tools came way later after we they were gone. So every single human ancestor was a paranoid stressed out muscle freak that had no tools except their fists and had to adapt their bodoes to survivong fighting thunder lizards, hance weaponized schizophrenia.

So everyone now is a hyperviolent muscle freak with weird powers because they descend from those people.