Your favorite wild and crazy fan theories

[Thera]

I've always wondered if there was any significance behind the guy in Quantum Leap playing God/Fate/etc. in the finale, and the fact that the same guy was in the first episode of the show.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by HelloLlama

I was always fond of the theory that Jessica Fletcher was a serial killer.

Everywhere she goes someone dies. Coincidence? I think not.

I wonder if this sort of observation inspired Dexter.

[Beachlife!]

I thought CSI should have made it appear as if Gil Grissom was a serial killer. They could have had a lot more fun with his leaving the show that way.

[Dasla]

Originally Posted by Beachlife!

I thought CSI should have made it appear as if Gil Grissom was a serial killer. They could have had a lot more fun with his leaving the show that way.

That man annoyed me. One of the reasons I never got into the CSI Francise. I would have watched it if this was the case.

[Dasla]

Originally Posted by GenYus234

Maybe James Bond is a Timelord. We see him at different times with different faces because he regenerates after he is "killed". Sometimes he has to travel back to accomplish a mission, which is why we see a certain face "out of order".

and the big hint was the apperance of Timothy Dalton as a Timelord in "Doctor Who" I did actually think that that casting was an in joke. One of several in the last few seasons of "Dr Who"

[TallGeekyGirl]

This one's meta...

The title "The Walking Dead" does not refer to the zombies, but what's left of humanity. Since everyone is infected with whatever it is that causes the dead to reanimate, even the living are little more than walking corpses feeding on each other in some way.

[Dasla]

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

This one's meta...

The title "The Walking Dead" does not refer to the zombies, but what's left of humanity. Since everyone is infected with whatever it is that causes the dead to reanimate, even the living are little more than walking corpses feeding on each other in some way.

ooooh Deep.

[JoeBentley]

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

This one's meta...

The title "The Walking Dead" does not refer to the zombies, but what's left of humanity. Since everyone is infected with whatever it is that causes the dead to reanimate, even the living are little more than walking corpses feeding on each other in some way.

The comic pretty much spells that out as the primary metaphor of the work in a full page splash panel.

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by HelloLlama

Do you realize just how many episodes there were of Murder She Wrote? That's a lot of dead bodies. If Miss Marple was a serial killer, she was a positive amateur next to J.B. Fletcher.

The BBC recently did a comparison of murder rates in fictional locations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20910859

Cabot Cove's murder rate is 1,490 per million, which is about 50% higher than the murder rate in Honduras, apparently the highest national murder rate in the world. It's quite scary that it's still almost within the bounds of reality... I would guess that there are specific real towns that have a higher murder rate - in Mexico, say. Juarez, for example, apparently has a murder rate of 2,290 per million (Wikipedia says "citation needed" but the numbers which do have citations are scary enough).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_...ime_and_safety

(eta) Lightly spanked by JoeBentley, but I reckon my figures are more accurate than his...

[Kermor]

Originally Posted by GenYus234

Maybe James Bond is a Timelord. We see him at different times with different faces because he regenerates after he is "killed". Sometimes he has to travel back to accomplish a mission, which is why we see a certain face "out of order".

Maybe not. But on the other hand, Peter David had the theory that Mary Poppins was a Time Lord, and that her Tardis was her Handbag (which explains how it could contain so many things).

He also had the theory that Ebenezer Scrooge was a mutant who "scrooged" himself, which would put A Christmas Carol straight into the realm of Science-Fiction.

[GenYus234]

Mary Poppins is a human wizard from the D&D realm with a bag of holding and a living construct.

[Alarm]

Originally Posted by GenYus234

Mary Poppins is a human wizard from the D&D realm with a bag of holding and a living construct.

And her umbrella is a modified broom of flying.

[Illuminatus]

My favorite theory is that The Iron Giant is what caused the world to spiral into the Fallout universe. In the immediate aftermath, everyone would continue to assume (as they did in the film) that the giant was a precursor to a communist invasion. The frenzy to avoid a "robot gap" produced Liberty Prime, and the increased Red Scare never abated.

[GenYus234]

That's a great one! The Fallout history says that our world and theirs diverged around the 1950's so that part matches. Also, the influx of alien technology would explain why we had autonomous robots and nuclear powered cars by 2077, but computers were still in the vacuum tube/green text phase.

[Thera]

Originally Posted by Dasla

That man annoyed me. One of the reasons I never got into the CSI Francise. I would have watched it if this was the case.

The people I know who actually work in CSI ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS SHOW. I liked it though back in the Grissom days.

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

This one's meta...

The title "The Walking Dead" does not refer to the zombies, but what's left of humanity. Since everyone is infected with whatever it is that causes the dead to reanimate, even the living are little more than walking corpses feeding on each other in some way.

This isn't wild or crazy; it's true.

[JoeBentley]

- The Flintstones are actually a post-apocolyptic society, not a pre-historic one. The dinosaurs are remnants of Jurassic Park style cloning experiments. This explains how they speak English and all their gadgets are based on modern appliances.

- Not exactly a fan theory per se, but for some reason everyone that seems to have an opinion on the matter is absolutely certain that the unnamed enemy nation in Top Gun was Libya, which given the fact that the film takes place in the Indian Ocean makes no sense.

[Thebobo]

Luke lives at the end of Cool Hand Luke simply because he is the Messiah. After eating the eggs(a symbol of birth) he lays like the Crucified Christ on the table.After he learns the death of his mother he sings a song referencing the Virgin Mary. When his fellow prisoners admire him for escaping he tells them to stop feeding on him (communion). Right before he is shot (crucified) he calls upon God in a mocking way at the abandoned church.
You can take it further and say he died at the hospital and was revived (resurrected).

While I am stretching it a bit I saw this great film many times. It wan't until the fifth or so time I saw it that I noticed a lot of the Christ symbols. I even discovered more when I saw it on the big screen back in the summer.

[ASL]

I agree that there are quite a few Christ metaphors in that film. That said, I suspect the metaphor only holds up to the death. No resurrection implied or necessary. Besides, who says Christ was really resurrected? Christians, sure, but what about the "Christ as a merely intriguing historical character with followers" crowd?

[Thebobo]

Originally Posted by ASL

I agree that there are quite a few Christ metaphors in that film. That said, I suspect the metaphor only holds up to the death. No resurrection implied or necessary. Besides, who says Christ was really resurrected? Christians, sure, but what about the "Christ as a merely intriguing historical character with followers" crowd?

Good point. However if you are going to use Christ metaphors in a film you will probably go along Biblical lines. It would be like having a character with Shakespearian metaphors. You will most likely stick to the original core of Shakespeare's work.

[ASL]

Then why wasn't he nailed to a cross at the end? Metaphor, allusion, allegory, whatever (although I think allegory is a bit too strong and perhaps even metaphor). Not the same thing as "adaptation" which is what you seem to be suggesting and which I think is way too strong. And of course there are some very obvious differences between the story of Christ you seem to be claiming the film is supposed to follow so closely up to and apparently including resurrection so I have to wonder... Given most of the story is not a shot for shot remake of the gospels, why should we assume the end is? And if Luke was resurrected, then why didn't he come back to his apostles on the chain gang and tell them the good news?

But then this is a "wild and crazy fan theories" thread so whatever floats your boat I guess.