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This poorly received thriller starring Ashton Kutcher was pretty solid in its understanding of the butterfly effect at points, showing how small changes to a moment in time can have far-reaching consequences. Mass Effect: Redemption: Redemption 3 - Ebook written by John Jackson Miller, Mac Walters. Not only does this raise a whole lot of questions about the circumstances leading to the curse, it also directly contradicts the portrait we see of the beast back when he was a human, and very much looking like an adult.
And yet, one of the songs suggests that he has been living as a beast for a full decade, meaning he was cursed back when he was still a pre-teen. The titular beast in this classic Disney cartoon is shown to be on the cusp of his 21st birthday that is when the spell becomes permanent. The only problem? There was no-one around to hear him say it. The word becomes a riddle which newspapermen scramble to decode. As Charles Foster Kane perishes alone in his bedroom, he utters the enigmatic word: “Rosebud”. But the fact remains that for the everyday viewer this was a head-scratchingly simple solution that everyone on screen ignored.Įven a film as immortally great as Citizen Kane has its foibles – and the iconic opening scene is one such. But the scene left many viewers asking the question: why couldn’t the Eagles have simply given everyone a lift to Mordor in the first place? The apparent plot hole has spawned endless debates among Middle Earth fanatics, with counter-arguments digging deep into eagle lore to disprove its merits. Towards the end of Peter Jackson’s nearly 10-hour fantasy trilogy, there comes an almighty deus ex machina, as the forces of good are saved by the arrival of the Great Eagles. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King