Okay Scrappy. From what you were able to discern from the movie, is Jake in his body back at the lab? If he consciousness left to play with woman going to India, and the teacher's consciousness is in the ether, then who is in Jake's half-body?
My god...he's gonna do the whole speech.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
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le nubian - Apr 04, 2011 1:09:57 am PDT #13941 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Scrappy - Apr 04, 2011 6:55:38 am PDT #13942 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think that he is in there, but an Alt-Jake is with the girl. Sending him back created an alternate version of this universe, where he is out there, but another version of himself is still inside. However, even with this answer as to how he can be "out," where's the teacher whose body Jake is in?
le nubian - Apr 04, 2011 7:01:50 am PDT #13943 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
right. I too wonder where that poor teacher is. I swear I believe he is in Jake's head.
In addition, I thought that the end meant the doctor's description of what was happening was patently incorrect. I thought instead of creating an alternate timeline, he changed the timeline so the event never happened in the first place.
Vonnie K - Apr 04, 2011 7:31:51 am PDT #13944 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I also saw Source Code over the weekend and thought it was much more interesting than your standard vaguely-SF exploidy action movies. There are paradoxes and plot holes that do not bear much scrutiny and I am Super Ambivalent about the ending, but I liked it a lot all the same. The performances were great, especially by Jake G. and Vera Farmiga.
Re. the discussion above: I think they're endorsing multiverse theory with that ending, not Terminator: SCC-like "every time you do something, you change the event in that one timeline" theory. The biggest trouble I had with this is that the Doc emphasized that this was *not* time travel, and that Colter was just inhabiting the shadow / after-image of Sean's consciousness. The whole concept of the movie is based on that and the ending screws with the basic rule of the story for the sake of a happy ending. Which is too bad, because I thought that freeze-frame of Colter and Christina kissing was such a perfectly bittersweet note to end the movie. If it had ended there, I'd have loved it without any reservation.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 04, 2011 8:08:59 am PDT #13945 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hollywood does love its happy endings. I was just reading up on The Thing, and apparently Carpenter filmed an alternate ending where Kurt Russell's character gets rescued at the end. (Sorry Keith David, you're a black dude in a horror movie. No rescue chopper for you!) Thankfully that never got released.
sumi - Apr 04, 2011 8:32:37 am PDT #13946 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth have been cast as as Peeta and Gale in The Hunger Games.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 8:37:04 am PDT #13947 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think they look fine, but I have no idea if they can act.
tiggy - Apr 04, 2011 8:46:55 am PDT #13948 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
meh. i'm not happy about the boys casting.
-t - Apr 04, 2011 8:57:46 am PDT #13949 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That the boys are played by actors I don't know anything about and Katniss is played by an Oscar nominee seems pretty fitting.
I am just now reading Mockingjay, though, so it's not like I have spent a lot of time thinking about casting.
Daisy Jane - Apr 04, 2011 8:59:44 am PDT #13950 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Green Lantern footage from Wonder Con 2011 [link]