I really hate this one too. Totoro is my favorite movie ever, and I hate how we can't just have something cute and nice and fluffy without someone on the internet trying to make it all needlessly edgy.
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Debunked Fan Theories That Are Better Than the Actual Lore or why Donny is in Walter’s imagination
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I still like the theory that James Bond, 007 is a title, not a name. I kinda hate that Skyfall was hinting at the idea through yhe fact that Silva was a codename given to him by MI6, only to immediately ruin it by showing Bond's ancestral home and that he came from a long line of Bonds.
His name being a codename just makes so much more sense. Think about it, why would this guy have been using his real, legal name around bad guys all this time? He's supposed to be a superspy, yet he hands out personal information that could potentially be very harmful to him every time he meets a cute girl on the job?
It would also explain how Judy Dench as M somehow stuck around while Bond himself completely got rebooted.
His name being a codename just makes so much more sense. Think about it, why would this guy have been using his real, legal name around bad guys all this time? He's supposed to be a superspy, yet he hands out personal information that could potentially be very harmful to him every time he meets a cute girl on the job?
It would also explain how Judy Dench as M somehow stuck around while Bond himself completely got rebooted.
Wait what? I thought this was definitely lore, and why they can freely recast the role
Bruh! Naruto fanfiction in 2007-2009 was flat out fucking amazing for its day.
I'm sure they're all garbage now going back and reading them but maaaaaan.
I remember when I first discovered Fanfiction.net by accident...that first doc I read blew my fucking mind.
"Yo what??? You can write stories about these characters? :O"
Oh man to be in middle school again
that's so weird, I'm watching Breaking Bad on the side and this scene was just happening as I was scrolling through the thread. glitch in the matrix.
but also I don't know what theory this refers too.
THIS!!!
Its sad that the dumb and incredibly generic "Squall was dead the whole time!" fan theory is the more famous of the two.
Holy shit. It happened in 2012 yet I feel like it was fucking ages ago.
100% this! Wanna be my new BFF?
I only saw this movie for the first time a couple of years ago and I was blown away by it. It was like the sweetest thing I had ever seen and then I went on the interwebs and.....bleh.
I think I read the writer denied it though.
The only place that theory is the established truth is in the Casino Royale James Bond spoof from the 60's. Skyfall went out of its way to debunk it.
Before that it was more fluid. On Her Majesty's Secret Service mentioned Bond's parents and his marriage in OHMSS was mentioned in Licence to Kill (implying yhat Timothy Dalton's and George Lazenby's Bonds are the same person), but it was never as blatant as in Skyfall.
It's been while so I'm probably wrong but back when Naruto was still good or stated to become bad the fan theory was that Madara/Tobi's ultimate plan or power was going to be a tank.
With the old beta Johto based on all of Japan, there was a small period of time where people speculated that the Ruins of Alph was located at same place as Hiroshima would be in a real life map, and with it people brought up that the Unown could be people who died to the atom bomb, and were brough back by Ho-Oh's powers. There being an actual soldier sprite and weapon like pokemon only added to the fire. Still, it got debunked as Hiroshima wasn't actually there in real life.
The problem with the 'Bond as codename' thing is that Bond's dead wife is referenced outside of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
The fact that Bond always goes by his actual name is incredibly stupid though, it especially sticks out in the more serious minded films(although I think Casino Royale makes a point that he is doing it there as an act of provocation, but it has been awhile since I've seen it).
Ooh, this an interesting one.
And it is obviously not true but I love the idea that Connery in The Rock is playing James Bond again. It is ridiculous but the fun kind of ridiculous.
Except for the ending to Newhart, which is the greatest ending in television history.
My very first exposure to fanfic wasn't Naruto, it was a bit earlier with Harvest Moon, but I was too young to really understand. I got INTO fanfiction with Naruto though, and shit was amazing. I know my taste was garbage though. Lots of terrible romance stories and edgy "Naruto is the best and coolest and is a demon that everyone hates except the ladies which he bangs all of them also fuck Sasuke/Kakashi/Sakura". But still, I'd do it all over again. It was wondrous
Oooh, I always liked that theory.
Would've loved if Sean Connery showed up at the Bond estate, merely titled 'The Caretaker' in the ending credits.
The gamefaqs thread I read where Naruto was going to die young because of body burnout from constantly having to regenerate cancerous cells made me a sad middle schooler for a day.
I always liked the Inception theory that the film was a metaphor for filmmaking and that Cillian Murphy was the stand in for the audience.
People who only played after the extended cut DLC (or went into the ending with a hyper defensive mindset) just don't understand the madness that was that original ending. It was so mind-bogglingly awful that people could create a better, more consistent, more faithful to the tone of the series ending out of the holes in the writing of the real ending. The new ending (plus all the DLC) makes it okay ENOUGH, but is nowhere near what Mass Effect deserved, and I still feel the Indoctrination theory is a better ending. And I say this is as someone who has only picked Synthesis and Control.
God that period of leaks during The Last coming out was amazing. As a longtime NaruHina shipper the sea of memes being created was the most hilarious thing. If someone has that album cover with all the faces put on it please post it
Happy 40th birthday to the cat that's been hallucinating and starving to death since 1989!
Yes, some people believed this meant everything that happened after this strip was all in Garfield's mind.
YAWN!
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heh i also remember this one. it was pretty elaborate.
i still like the Madara Tank more only because of how many people were actually fooled by it. it was too funny.
Donny being in Walter's imagination doesn't work at all given Donny is, in fact, acknowledged by The Dude, and also, it would be incredibly stupid and add nothing to the film.
I hate dumb fan theories.
If dumb fans that came up with these theories actually made movies, they'd all be absolutely terrible. They'd all be crap like, "OMG, the cop chasing the serial killer actually is the serial killer!"
I hate dumb fan theories.
If dumb fans that came up with these theories actually made movies, they'd all be absolutely terrible. They'd all be crap like, "OMG, the cop chasing the serial killer actually is the serial killer!"
Now You See Me must have been made by one of those fans
The creators have banished that theory. They even said the theory doesnt even make sense, in fact they added that if there is a remake they wont even consider the theory
Wasn't there one for the briefcase in Pulp Fiction having Marcellus Wallace's soul. Something about devil removing the soul from the back of the head (where he had a plaster) and the combination being 666.
Dr Claw is the original Inspector Gadget and the one you see is his clone/robot facsimile.
The narrator and tyler durden in Fight Club are analogous to Calvin and Hobbes.
Dr Claw is the original Inspector Gadget and the one you see is his clone/robot facsimile.
The narrator and tyler durden in Fight Club are analogous to Calvin and Hobbes.
Please tell me the BB theory does not involve Q somehow manipulating a ST/TNG holodeck to early 00s for amusement purposes.
lol sure!
I saw it when I was in middle school and have loved it ever since. It's my 'happy place' movie I often put on when I'm sad, sick or just needing some quiet calm time to fall asleep. It also reminded me a lot of living on a small farm (mostly orchards) when I was a little girl and running around being crazy with my little brother. Movie is just pure fucking joy. I love it.
Oh I know, its real to me in my own world though.
VIII was already my favorite but that would have taken it to the next level.
That makes it perfect for this topic, since it's about debunked fan theories!
I think Rinoa being Ultimecia would turn a forgettable villain into a heartbreakingly memorable one. The plot's said to be a love story about Squall and Rinoa, but what happens after it's over? What if Rinoa lives long after Squall passes because of her powers - what happens after the love story? I feel like it'd be a more interesting exploration of the human experience if they were the same character - of what grief can do to a person, of facing persecution and remembering better days, and the lengths a person might go to to escape that...and if you're a sorceress, those lengths might be compressing time.
And that'd make their decision to continue their relationship at the end pretty powerful and nuanced, if they know what's ahead for them.
I mean that seems more interesting to me than whatever we got. I like FFVIII a fair bit but something like this could enrich the story, I think.
As it stands, Ultimecia is a sorceress who wants to escape her fated death at the hands of SeeD by initiating time compression and becoming a god (that old chestnut) - which of course results in her defeat. She ties into the game's theme of fate but it has little impact on the protagonists after her defeat - her warnings don't really resonate with the player either, given that the fate of our heroes seem pretty great and we don't really care about her fate because you only meet face-to-face at the very end.
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Yay!
Yeah it is perfect for making you feel better.
What I also love about it is that we watched it once with my (then 4 year old) nephew and he adored it, even though he obviously couldn't understand the Japanese at all.
Now I am just jealous.
The theory about Donny makes even less sense because Big Lebowski, and most of Coens Brothers work, is full of ambiguity that you can make theories about. So why would you try creating a theory about one of the few things which isn't even slightly ambiguous?
Not to mention the boldfaced cheek of thinking you can improve upon not just a brilliant film, but a brilliant Coen Brothers film...
Exactly. Great example of exactly that kind of garbage script.
By the way, this is about The Office.
Good story for The Flenderson Files.
I always hoped that was the case.
Good story for The Flenderson Files.