History Headscratchers / Stardust

** If the star Yvaine was an astronomical distance away, it would've taken at least years for the stone to reach her, since it clearly didn't travel faster than light, and it would not have been able to knock her down to earth either. So it's pretty safe to assume that our physics don't apply to stars on the other side of the wall.

** If the star Yvaine was an astronomical distance away, it would've taken at least years for the stone to reach her, since it clearly didn't travel faster than light, and it would not have been able to knock her down to earth eiter. So it's pretty safe to assume that our physics don't apply to stars on the other side of the wall.

** We don't see the brother's behavior except to each other. Perhaps the rest where quite noble to ordinary people.And they may have only killed each other because daddy gave them no choice. Sept may have been the only one who was evil generally and who relished killing his brothers.

*** Exactly. I was never fooled by Lamia's act. After all, the times she'd interacted with her sisters consisted of them nagging her and her not wanting them to share in anything with her, it would be massively out-of-character for her to genuinely mourn the loss of her sisters. While the character Lamia was based on was a TragicVillain, Lamia's a monster. She NEVER wanted to share eternal life with anyone, so she'd never learn that theme of the film. She was evil and had to be brought down.

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*** Exactly. I was never fooled by Lamia's act. After ''all'' the times she'd interacted with her sisters consisted of them nagging her and her not wanting them to share in anything with her, it would be massively out-of-character for her to genuinely mourn the loss of her sisters. While the character Lamia was based on was a TragicVillain, Lamia's a monster. She NEVER wanted to share eternal life with anyone, so she'd never learn that theme of the film. She was evil and had to be brought down.

* Lamia, as the movie proceeds, slowly but surely ages further and further back to her initial state in the movie whenever she casts magic...the issue is that this happens or more specifically, the viewer is shown this happens, when she does what are otherwise small feats of magic. At one point she polymorphs two goats into humans, one into a women and then she creates an entire inn at a crossroads. After creating the inn, at least, one would think she would be decrepit but its not even highlighted, she doesn't seem to age in that moment.

* How was the witch able to make a voodoo doll of Septimus? She didn't have any pieces of his hair or skin or anything--just a random doll made of clay. It wasn't linked to Septimus in any particular way, so it shouldn't have worked! It might be internally consistent, but that still raises the question of why she didn't bust it out before her sister got gutted.

* Why didn't the witch just kill both of them when she had the chance? She deliberately missed Tristan, let both of them get far away from her, then suddenly started trying to kill them again when they both had the advantage over her and she got her butt whipped. I loved the movie, but that scene almost killed it for me for being apparently pointless.

*** At the point where she had Yvaine completely in her power, Yvaine had effectively lost all hope. She needed to give her a HopeSpot to actually make her think "Maybe we'll live through this, maybe we'll survive." Yes, she scares her again right after, but at that point Yvaine is ''scared'', not heartbroken. She was clearly going to kill them both almost immediately after that, and probably figured the lingering hope and happiness of thinking she was going to get away would have lingered in Yvaine's heart.
* In TheMovie, were the animals the witches used for divination that were let loose at the end transformed humans, or was it left to the viewer's interpretation?

** Though that would've made one witch's KarmicDeath by wolves more awesome.

* At the end of TheMovie, isn't it a bit of an unhappy ending that [[spoiler: Tristran and Yvain end up hundreds, or thousands of light-years apart, or at least with other stars between them]]?

* The part I don't understand is why the necklace knocked Yvain out of the sky. I mean, I know the necklace had to travel a good distance for the sons to go look for it, but why would it bring down a star?

** Because Septimus was the most like his father. He killed the most people and killed them in cold blood, without a shred of remorse. Like the above stated, his brothers might have [[PunchClockVillain behaved better when they weren't following in their father's footsteps]] and might even have repented after death. The only other confirmed killer was Secondus, and he seemed to regret it by the time we see him die. ("It was 10 years ago!") With Septimus, he was every bit TheSociopath his father was. His ''single'' [[PetTheDog redeeming moment]] was not killing his sister, but that wasn't enough to bring him salvation in the end.
* [[http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/8467/kingm.png This]] cannot be coincidence, and I find it highly disturbing.
** [[MemeticMutation '''ELEPHANT!!!''']]

*** It was written by Tristran's father and it was asking wether or not another, magical universe could exist on the other side of the wall.

** Tristan's a bastard (the literal kind), so until he was acknowledged, he wouldn't have counted as a royal. Once everyone else in the royal line that could have preceded him to kingship was dead, and once the stone acknowledged him, it's entirely possible his blood ''turned'' blue, by magic-logic.

** I've only seen the movie, but didn't the King ask his sons where the heck was their sister, and Septimus pointed out that he wouldn't bother killing her when he still had two brothers alive? That sort of implies they don't even know she's missing, let alone bound to a witch. She probably left home a long time ago, knowing it would be unlikely that she'd ever get the throne, then got kidnapped. Everyone has just been too busy trying to do each other in to notice.

* OK, Stars & Humans can't have children together, so who NOW, after Yvaine and Tristran are gone, is the new Lord of Stormhold?

** It's magical. Tristan's father tried to cut the chain off of Tristan's mother's ankle by looping it and cutting away, but though the chain was cut, the two edges recombined ... leaving him with a handful of disconnected (magical) chain. It's this magic chain that he then gives to Tristan. If you look at the scenes with the mother in them, the chain can extend and compress depending on where she needs to go to do her duties.

** She didn't go out of her way to demlish the inn so much as she just let it burn down from the fire she'd already started trying to get Yvaine. And bathtubs aren't flammable.