Question: In this film, German soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht incorrectly wear uniforms of the Afrika Korps, which was actually created in 1941. What would be the correct real-life uniform these characters should have been wearing in the desert by 1936?
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Question: Would Alex be considered a sociopath outside of the changed ending? It seems like she doesn't engage in such atrocities later in the film on a routine basis, and she doesn't appear to lie or manipulate on a consistent basis in the context of self-serving behaviour.
Answer: How do you know this is the first man she stalked? There could have been others. Benny E.
Question: I'm not sure if this is a mistake or not, so I'll ask it here. In one scene, Bridget zip lines down to Arnold, Gerald, and Helga on the crashed bus. She uses a device attached to her sleeve to hook a zip line onto the bus, but when she goes down the zip line, it extends past the screen behind her. What did she do there? Did she attach the device to the sky, or something? (01:07:10)
Murder on the Thirtieth Floor - S10-E15
Question: What did Edward mean in his note to Jessica that he was right in the first place?
Answer: At the start, Edward told Jessica that he loved the changes she'd made to her new book. Later, as his mental condition declined, he said the book was terrible and he wouldn't publish it until she made improvements. Edward's later note to Jessica was to apologise for saying her novel was bad and that he had been right about it the first time.
Question: Why is Jimeno so out of breath and tired-looking when near the cart at the beginning?
Question: How exactly did Zia become a paleoveterinarian if she had never even seen a dinosaur beforehand? Wouldn't she need some practical experience on a living subject?
Answer: Would add to the other answer that while "paleo-veterinarian" is not a formally recognized degree or specialization in veterinary medicine, it is a field of study and practice that involves applying veterinary knowledge to the study of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs. This includes understanding and theorizing how their anatomy, physiology, and diseases might have been, and applying this knowledge to modern animals. Though Zia apparently had no hands-on experience with living dinosaurs, she would have studied fossils and also birds and reptiles that had some relationship to extinct dinosaurs. She may also have had some access to InGen's scientific research, read their scientific publications, etc.
Answer: I think you could make a compelling argument that paleoveterinarians are probably held to a different standard than normal veterinarians because it's an extremely niche study. Being a paleoveterinarian is wildly specific, and having the chance for practical hands-on experience with dinosaurs would be rare and difficult to the point of being borderline impossible. Dinosaurs are only in a few specific locations, and there have been repeated incidents basically necessitating that people keep away outside of very rare exceptions. But you can't just not have them, so getting licensed is probably based more on study than experience.
Question: How did Tom keep getting out of the bio bed if he was asleep and locked in?
Answer: The bio-chambers could be opened from the inside and the crew could exit if needed. Presumably, the induced stasis was not a deep sleep and external conditions could awaken crew members. Tom was claustrophobic and highly nervous about undergoing the stasis process. His anxiety may have prevented a deeper sleep. Tom was essentially sleepwalking and had no memory of leaving the bio-chamber.
Question: Has it ever been explained how the Resistance knew that Skynet was sending a Terminator to go back in time to kill Sarah? If so, how did they know?
Answer: It's a time loop. When Reese was sent back, he told Sarah everything. She told her son, John, everything. He knew the day was coming; that's why he and Reese were close friends and why John gave Reese a picture of Sarah.
Question: When William says, "Apart from the American, I've only loved two girls, both total disasters," Max replies, "That's not fair." What did he mean? William is technically right. Does Max think William is generalising?
Answer: He means it's hard to judge from only dating three women. Plus, he meant that American and British women are totally different, so one cannot compare the two.
Question: How is it Sil managed to cut off the woman's thumb since garden shears are not strong enough to cut bones?
Answer: You could probably make a compelling argument that, as an alien-hybrid, Sil is stronger than a normal person and thus was just able to forcibly cut through the finger with the pruners by "crushing" it. Also, this is where good old suspension of disbelief comes in. The pruners might realistically have broken at some point, but it's a movie, so we can "forgive" this bit of unrealism because it creates a compelling scene.
Question: At the end of the movie, Charles and Carrie decide to spend the rest of their lives together without being married. If Charles loves Carrie so much and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, why doesn't he just marry her?
Answer: I've been with my girlfriend for 25 years, and we are not married. You do not need to marry someone to love them.
Answer: Carrie had just gone through a divorce, and Charles had left a woman at the altar. They were both kind of soured on the idea of marriage.
Answer: I don't recall if it was determined whether or not they eventually married. The end showed them together with their baby and implied that they had married by then.
He specifically asked her not to be his wife.
Question: If Carrie loves Hamish so much, why does she still hang out and sleep with Charles?
Answer: Carrie was immediately attracted to Charles and gave in to her passion; she even said she thought they had a missed opportunity. Most likely, she never truly loved Hamish, was attracted to his status and wealth, and probably believed it would work out. Carrie really didn't know what Hamish was like.
Question: At the end, when Martin and his family go back to their old home, why isn't Abigail with them? She loves them and they are like family to her.
Answer: Abigale, along with the rest of Benjamin's slaves, was taken away by the British earlier in the film. We don't know what happens to her after that, but more than likely, she was sold or given to another slaveholder. Slavery continued after the war, so she would have continued with her new household. We can speculate that maybe, after the end of the film, Benjamin may have tried to track her down and possibly buy her back, but either way, she likely remains a slave.
Question: Why does Susan refuse to speak during most of the movie?
Answer: She is angry, mostly from missing her mum, but also at her dad for being away so long and often.
Question: If Tavington and his men had succeeded in finding Martin's family at the plantation, would they have just killed them or taken them hostage?
Answer: A bit of both. Although killing them outright may have given them even more trouble further down the line. As hostages, they could be seen as an extremely powerful bargaining chip.
Question: Although it's not officially stated or mentioned, the movie definitely takes place in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the time-lapse sequence of Elizabeth's Walk of Fame star, there's a wintery part with snow covering the walkway. Is it realistic to depict snow in Southwest California, especially in LA?
Question: Do they ever say what Francis did to get sent to military school?
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Chosen answer: In real life, the Wehrmacht had no presence in Northern Africa in 1936. So whoever they were, they shouldn't have been there. Having said that, since there were no olive or khaki coloured desert uniforms yet (1940), the Wehrmacht soldiers should wear regular Heer field uniforms, which are grey-green ("field grey") and had the same style and looks from 1934 to 1945.
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They were there on a personal mission for Hitler. It had nothing to do with the war. It was strictly an archaeological dig. The uniforms were relevant.