Allan:

The reason is that film characters do not inherit traits from the characters of earlier films the way characters in real lifetimes do.   They only evolve if a strange unknown directive intelligence, operating from outside the limits of the known story, tell them to evolve. Very weird! Some claim this phenomenon can be used to justify religous conviction, while others dispute this conclusion. But it is unsettling, when you think about it. Science has not yet come up with an explanation for this hole in the Darwinian model of the universe.

Just be grateful you're not a character in a story -- a film story, I mean.


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