Fan theories that are Insane/awesome/valid - Page 2

Another fun one: The scientists in Firefly/Serenity were trying to re-create a Slayer with River to stop the Reavers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaver_%28Firefly%29


"The Reavers' true origin is revealed later in the movie Serenity. The crew of Serenity find evidence, in the form of an Alliance scientist's holographic message, that Reavers were originally humans from the planet Miranda. The Alliance government used Miranda as a testing ground for the chemical agent G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate, or simply "Pax" (Latin for "peace"). It was added to the planet's air processors in order to calm the population and weed out aggression."

Pax was an advanced version of a drug/technology developed to make Dolls more docile when not in the field.

I still swear that Ned's ability to bring the dead back to life on Pushing Daisies is somehow linked to what happened when Betty the Reaper followed a soul into the afterlife on Dead Like Me.

As a follow-up. Firefly is set in the Buffyverse. The chronology would go something like this (keep in mind that I haven't read the recent "seasons six and eight" comics): Buffy --> Angel --> the event that ends the vampire/human war and sucks all vampires back into an alternate dimension, possibly involving Buffy and Angel --> Fray --->Firefly.

I love Tommy Westphall Universe, for what it's worth, if only for the idea that if you follow it through to its logical conclusion, we're all the fantasy of an autistic boy in Boston. Even now, as I'm typing this.

Wrong thread ...

George Lucas made the Prequels the way he did to disillusion all the Star Wars Fanboys and force them to become adults

And boy did that work out.

'Requiem for a Dream' is the sequel to 'Labyrinth.'

Ok if that's not a gag, I want that explained.

I'm not sure, but I think Fray takes place after when Firefly is set.

A lot of people (friends of mine included). were convinced after Phantom Menace came out that Palpatine and Darth Sidious would turn out to be different people/clones.

And I'd be prepared to believe the end of Minority Report was all a dream if I hadn't already seen Spielberg's ass-clenchingly sappy end to War of the Worlds.

Wouldn't it be easier to draw a connection between Requiem and Dark City?

Speaking of movies with actresses-in-common, I have a theory that Jane Alexander's character in Terminator: Salvation is the mom from Testament, still hanging on decades after the bombs dropped.

I've heard theories trying to connect Bladerunner to Alien (Ash being a future version of replicants) and the Terminator series to Aliens (because of the James Cameron aesthetic, and Bishop's comment about "hyperdyne systems" being "cyberdyne systems" in the script), creating a conjoined Scott/Cameron universe.

Also, and this isn't so much a theory as a curiousity, I've always wondered why both Hi and Smalls have the same roadrunner tattoo in Raising Arizona. Hi kidnapped a baby, and Smalls mentions having been sold on the market when he was a baby. Both have crazy red hair. Is Smalls supposed to be Hi's dark side incarnate or something?

My own pre-REVOLUTIONS, MATRIX RELOADED theory was that the 'real world' they supposedly escaped into was actually another piece of the Matrix, and that Neo was the real One to save them for the first time.

Also, at the end of the DARK TOWER series, I was absolutely convinced that Roland would reach the top floor and find the Constant Reader, ala THE NEVER ENDING STORY.

I'd like to subscribe to that newsletter. Finally saw SALVATION last week and as soon as she popped up, I remarked that very thing to my wife. Not being a nuke film fan, she was at a loss. But I found my self insisting(to her and myself) that that had to be the case. Why else pluck someone so classy and random for a small role in a Terminator film?

Up until this post I despised Punch Drunk Love. Now it's a film to fuck with people's heads. Awesome, Justin!

Glad I'm not the only one.

I'm a little iffy on dates, as it's been a while, but my reading has always been that Fray is about 200-300 years after Buffy, and Firefly/Serenity is the 26th century.

Smalls is supposed to be the bandit outlaw side of HI incarnate. Now that tatoo could mean they were related at somepoint. Or rather that tatoo just signifies their outlaw nature.

I just take it as a funny coincidence.

Wow... and Punch Drunk Love just got even better.

I had a theory back in the 90's that Deputy Dewey was the third killer in Scream and would be revealed as such in the sequel. There were theories at the time whipping around the "world wide web" that there had to be a third killer for the original to make sense so I thought:

• The killer had boots ("killer boots, man!") that looked "police issue"
• Dewey had every reason to hate everyone
• He certainly seemed like a bit of a weirdo.
• When Gale Weathers showed interest in him in the 3rd act he wanted the guys to spare her life, got into a confrontation about it and they stabbed him leaving him for dead.

I thought all of this could lead to a sequel in which Dewey begins another killing spree resulting from some issue he was having with Gale... leading to another solid unexpected ending. Shame on me for thinking the sequel could be interesting and have a killer that we gave a shit about.

ETA: I still like to believe he was the third killer. Just makes it more fun for me.

I always read it that Smalls was Hi's father.

No idea what the initials 'H. I.' stand for, though Hi does work for Hudsucker Industries.

The "H" stands for Herbert. Don't know what the "I" does though.

The Saw movies were literally intended to be hardcore deviant pornography, and a very awkward conversation ensued between studio execs and director James Wan, when they discovered his little short film on the internet, and flattered by their interest, Wan just had to clear his throat and tell them that, uh, yes, of course it's a horror movie. The lingering shots of traps on body parts are actually beat off to by a tiny subset of the population, which has felt increasingly accepted by the rest of society, as the Saw movies rake in the millions, and its biggest fans finally feel comfortable raping children out in the open, as read about in every newspaper every week across the country.

Argh! I KNEW that! Time to watch it again.

I can't find the specific link, but PTA's basically said as much. I wasn't sure if it was Superman or Popeye, though. Heh.

Yep. He's all of HI's reckless, criminal tendencies, and only after he's defeated is HI able to settle down and be a family man.

I can remember when "Deckard's really a Replicant" was considered really off the wall.

Before the Matrix sequels saw release, I liked to imagine that the pills Morpheus gave Anderson were potent hallucinogens, and that the Nebuchadnezzar scenes and Agent encounters were Anderson's Stockholme Syndrome delusions.

Remember the theory the the first half of Death Proof happened before the Second Half?

Star Wars theory I like about Yoda. He is

A) A human centuries old because of the Force

Or

B) An Ewok so old that his hair fell out.

Speaking of Star Wars, I remember hearing people saying R2-D2 used the Force to blow up the other R2 unit so he gets bought along with Threepio, and that Obi-Wan mind-tricked Luke while he was unconscious after the Tusken Raider attack to make him believe all the garbage he tells him about his father. That's why R2 starts beeping when Obi-Wan puts his hand on Luke's head -- he thinks the old guy is up to somethin fishy.

There's a really cute little one-shot comic where it turns out that that droid was the only droid in history to be blessed with the force, and that he broke himself because he suddenly saw an image of R2 assisting the chosen one.

Wasn't there something where IG-88 was actually plugged into the second Death Star and about to obliterate the universe when they blew it up in Jedi?

What?

That wasn't a theory, that was a bunch of shitheads with cataracts.

I still don't get it, how could the first half not happen before the second half?

A bunch of dipshits who didn't really pay attention when the film was viewed in theatres said that Stuntman Mike's scar wasn't there in the second round of the movie, suggesting that it took place before he rammed his front tires into Vanessa Ferlito's face.

Is it a theory that Crank is all in a video game or is that the agreed interpretation?

You know what my fan theory is about that shit, nearly three years later? Those people were watching bootlegs on their computers.

http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97045&page=6

I subscribe to that theory as well, Phil.

My pet theory is that in Kindergarten Cop, the biggest reason John Kimble falls in love with Joyce/Rachel is his obsession with Collin Crisp. He's spent more than a decade trying to nail Crisp, he's given up everything, including his family, and he lives in a dump eating takeout food while Crisp walks free. In the end, it's not enough to send Crisp to prison. In order to tie the fragments of his own life back together, he has to kill Crisp, fuck his wife, and raise Crisp's son Dominic as his own.

Although I don't know if that counts as an alternate take, because it's exactly what happens in the movie.

William Holden's character escaped STALAG 17 only to be captured and put into Colonel Saito's camp in BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.

R5-D4 is the true hero of the OT.

edited becasue its a dumb theory.

Guh? That would make the Crank films, approximately, 99.3% less fun.

Skippy the Jedi Droid, ha!

Sadly, it's apparently part of canon now that Artoo sabotaged R5-D4 on board the sand crawler.

That theory is what I liked about Crank. It's also why I wanted the second film to start with a flashing "CONTINUE" on a black background.

Yeah, I always thought Egan was a variation on Superman. By the end of the film he's 'strong' and he can fly anywhere in the world.