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| | How are we sure there are two ponytails in this comic? It could be the same character. After all they will need someone competent on their team. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.103.172|162.158.103.172]] 18:04, 25 January 2023 (UTC) | | How are we sure there are two ponytails in this comic? It could be the same character. After all they will need someone competent on their team. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.103.172|162.158.103.172]] 18:04, 25 January 2023 (UTC) |
| − | :There's no sign that the common illustrative (and filmic) convention has been broken, of NASA-calling Cueball being in direct communication with helmet-carrying Cueball across the 'jump-cut' between the two frames/scenes. For original Ponytail to have had time to be in both scenes presupposes a whole omitted period of time (ok, so not rare in film trailers, which reassemble the storyline how they see fit) but, more than that, it makes nonsense of the helmet-Cueball seeming to learn of the group's instructions by phone when Ponytail (of the initial scene) seems to be already both knowledgable ''and'' authoritative enough to have briefed the team upon her arrival (at whatever point in the intervening time that was).
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| − | :...you'd need to assume some big "but is the threat ''really'' real?" plotpoint where Ponytail (initial version) and her staff have primed NASA but some beaurocratic process then had to have been seen (in the full movie) in which Ponytail (and perhaps even one of 'her' Cueballs, because... expendible sidekick?) rock up to NASA, get them to at least prepare for the mission, all the while awaiting the go/no-go direct from the person in charge (NASA boss/POTUS/whatever), at which point the explicit confirmation comes through and is rhetorically relayed to a team who know ''exactly'' what it is they'll be doing (if it turns out they're doing anything) and just need an "It's a Go, guys!"
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| − | :Not that some dialogue/screenplay isn't as bad as the backformed trailer-cut version forces us to assume (nor that some trailers don't horribly Lie with misplaced or even unused film-footage that sort of makes its own sense, if you don't notice the same character present in both scenes). But I prefer to think that Astronomer-Ponytail is perhaps NASA-Ponytail's twin sister. Making it even more dramatic that, in order to save the world from <whatever>, the former has to put her super-sibling as directly into harm's way as any practical and observational person can, even given the latter's obvious tendency to a more risk-taking profession (but probably still topped the intelligence tests).
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| − | :...yet that's just my own [[1401: New|headcanon]]. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.178.64|172.71.178.64]] 00:05, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
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