We tend to think of science fable and illusion as being like enigma novels — the story is over when you solve the vitrine . So we obsess over query that have no resolution . But here are 10 doubtfulness that are intimately unanswered , either because the hypothesis are absorbing or because the answer would be terrible .
We ’ll never know . Steven Spielberg jib show what happen to Roy after he hold up inside the Mothership — he did take a vista showing the inside of the ship for the 1980 re - waiver , under studio insistency . And then he maintain that scene out of all subsequent versions of the film , because he did not need that question to be answered — it shove along the mystery of his movie all . For a really thoughtful , considered explanation of why we should never see inside the starship , read here .
We get hints in Star Trek : The Next Generation that Guinan has a special bond with Captain Picard , that go back to before Picard brought her onto the Enterprise . Even aside from their encounter in “ Time ’s Arrow , ” they have some variety of yesteryear together . Similarly , Guinan has a complex backstory with Q , who warn that she ’s not what she seem — but even though Generations invents a really half-hearted explanation for Guinan ’s time - sensitiveness , we never get most of her backstory . And she ’s belike comfortably leave as a captivating mystery .
There ’s so much that we never understand in this motion picture — like , the whole deal with the stead where the Kaiju come from , and Stacker Pentecost ’s past times and stuff . But mayhap if this motion picture ever gets a sequel , we ’ll learn more about those things . However , we ’ll never know why they suppose it was a upright idea to put sword on the Jaegers . It must have just seemed like a cool stylistic addition . ( Thanks Gillian ! )
You do it , the cleaning lady who keeps coming up to Wilf and asking him if he ’s a effective soldier and stuff and nonsense . She ’s some sort of Gallifreyan , but there are lead that she ’s right smart more important than that . Russell T. Davies hinted in audience that she ’s the Doctor ’s mother , but this was definitely never stated on screen — and we ’re kind of beaming that we never got the full story on her . perchance she was just some random Time Lady , maybe she was the Watcher . Maybe she was a future rebirth of the Master , strain to unsex her own past mistakes . Hopefully we ’ll never know .
This is sort of the textbook example of a “ question that should n’t be answered . ” Was Cobb ’s top still spinning forever at the end of Inception , or did it finally fall down — proving that he was back in reality and not stuck in another dream . But the material resolution is that Cobb walks out and does n’t seem to like if the top prevent spinning .
Fringe was a show with lots of mysteries — and we never got complete answers to a heap of them . Like , what was the Pattern exactly ? But part of the play of this show was just reveling in the outlandishness and randomness , and not vex too much about get an exact explanation for everything . ( And we ’re very thankful for some on the loose ends — like thank goodness we never found out the whole account about that religious FBI agent from the starting of season two . ) So who was that cat on the Graf Zeppelin , with the tenner on his T - shirt , who was going to pour down Olivia ? Fan speculation has it that he was an aspect of William Bell — but that ’s not actually put forward on screen . mayhap he was just a manifestation of Death in Olivia ’s subconscious . possibly it was an alternate reality thing . The instalment was an LSD trip !
There ’s one scientist in Night of the Living Dead who suggest that radiation from a returning Venus probe caused the zombi uprising . But George Romero himselfdisavowed that explanationlater . In fact , we never find out what caused zombies to arise up in Romero ’s film — and that make them more terrifying and uncontrolled , like a force of nature .
When Harold Ramis passed away in the beginning this twelvemonth , one of the fascinating fact that I learned was that Ramis fought the studio apartment over explicate Phil ’s predicament in Groundhog Day . The studiodesperately wanted to include a scenewhere Phil learns that he was curse by a “ Gypsy ” ( SIC ) because of something terrible he did in the past , which he needs to aby for . Ramis defy to shoot this scene , and the studio almost pop off behind his back and added it — but he contend to stop it . And thank goodness . Groundhog Day would be cheapen by any account of Phil ’s curse .
Given that A Memory of Light just came out latterly , and the statute of limitations for Koran spoilers is a great deal long than movie or TV spoiler , we wo n’t excuse this one . Just know that there ’s a mysterious thing involve a pipe that happens at the destruction of the final Wheel of Time book , and even cobalt - author Brandon Sandersondoesn’t know , or ca n’t say , how it materialise .
Ridley Scott has order everyone what he remember the result to this inquiry is — but Blade Runner leaves it ambiguous . ( Especially if you watch over one of the earlier cutting , without so much unicorn imagery . ) Which is as it should be .
Thanks to S.A. Hunt , Bryant Francis , Joseph Hughes , Susan Jane Bigelow , Amanda C. Davis , Ferrett Steinmetz , William Cardini , Jennifer Finney Boylan , Jack Lint , Victor D. Infante , Ron Hogan , Gillian Daniels , Shannon Hubbell , Benjamin Blattberg , Chris Matthews , J.E. Mac , Platypus Man , Cheryl Morgan , Jason Bergman , Scott Edelman , Sailor Plutoid , Drew Chial , John Bryden Smith , L Sailor , Harry Connolly , Angela Wells , Yoz Grahame , Daniel Fine , Jacqui Dey , Lee , Andrew Liptak , Erik Sofge , Adam Slight , Emma Osborne , Kate Cowan , Eric Del Carlo , Renee Buchanan and everyone else who helped !
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