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Worst fan theory on a show/movie etc you have heard/seen circulated?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Anything that goes "This character is having a dream and all of the show is fake!" is terrible. It can barely be called a theory. There are some specific media where it makes sense to speculate what was real and what wasn't but "Ash is a kid in a coma and is dreaming up Pokémon" no you wanted to post an edgy thing and couldn't get better material.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

SpongeBob is dead and in purgatory stuff

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Game of Thrones had really wild ones, personal favourite is that via some kind of magic the embryo created from Jon and Dany having sex would be transported back in time into Joanna Lannister's womb and it became Tyrion, who is the real chosen one

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

The time traveling fetus was always funny to read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago

Fuck I remember either seeing that one or at least seeing it mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Jon Snow's twin sister being Meera Reed. Pretty much only a theory because they're the same age and both have black hair, and cuz Howland is so mysterious I guess.

Come to think of it ASOIAF has a lot of "secret Targaryen" theories and they all suck. It's fine if there's one, it's fine if their extended family has a lot of bloodlines connected to it, but there are not a zillion potential azor ahais running around just waiting to be discovered.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That Jar Jar is a sith lord. He's the cartoon bunny that steps in the poop and is a racist caricature. Stop trying to say that George Lucas is some kind of mastermind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

I want to say it'd be funny to bring him back for The Rise of Skywalker instead of Palpatine, but Ahmed Best deserves better than that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of people will tell you that the whole prequel trilogy was preplanned despite all of the evidence in the films and the making of docs that they were made up on the spot and the scripts never even got a second draft.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't the first one at least basically the original draft of the Star Wars script rewritten to fit into the established canon? I remember that script being found/leaked and it seemed to hit a lot of the same specific story beats that Phantom Menace did in a way that the original Star Wars did not. If nothing else it clearly reused ideas that George Lucas had that hadn't made their way into his other movies yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I don't remember the specifics, but that much is plausible - George himself said that ANH was only 40% in line with what he originally had in mind.

it clearly reused ideas that George Lucas had

My favorite example of this specifically is that an early treatment of ANH had a scene with Luke and co racing in Beggar's Canyon, which was cut early in production and never filmed. But George really likes racing and he got to make the scene he always wanted to be there in TPM.

The original Beggar's Canyon scene survives in the BBC Radio Play version of Star Wars!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

anything on jujutsufolk

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The three seashells. All of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What are the seashells for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Very brave to post such embarrassing ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

Pretty much any of the ones that are like "Grumblesmatch secretly takes place in the the Pooburger universe*

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

"Javi is Pit Girl" or "Callie is Pit Girl" for Yellowjackets. Stupid time travel nonsense often accompanies the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

"Tabitha is Eloise" she is clearly Miranda.